Most mornings I stumble into the kitchen with my hair at right angles to my face, grunting in a manner vaguely reminiscent of a neanderthal and throw together a banana smoothie. It might have a drop of rose water or some vanilla, a few cardamom seeds, a teaspoon of hazelbutter or a splash of pineapple juice in there, but mostly its just smooth, easy, unchallenging. I sip it gratefully as I piece together Fin's lunch and herd his book bag, crash helmet, socks, shoes, pants and jacket towards him, hoping they will find their way onto his person before 8.30 ticks round again.
Some mornings though, I wake with a feeling to bake, or make pancakes, to poach an egg or two and toss some mushrooms in a pan. Or I might just spy a pear at the very point of ripeness, juice saturating the flesh, waiting to run down my chin and snake round my wrists.
Of all meals, I think breakfast is the most personal, the meal that comforts our foggy heads, brings our dream selves back into our bodies and sends us out the door ready to face the day. So my challenge this month is to create and post about a breakfast dish you love. It could be a simple smoothie or it could be waffles with piles of berries, whipped cream and syrup. Hey it could even be miso soup! I want to see the variety of breakfasts out there and the many ways you find to make them interesting and delicious.
I'd love to hear about your mornings too. Why not let us know a little more about yourself and why you eat those things for breakfast? Maybe you'd like to tell us about your perfect weekend breakfast, when there is time to cook up a feast and linger over the papers. Maybe there's a history to your breakfast, a recipe passed down to you, a childhood memory of eating that food and all the thoughts and feelings it evokes. Be creative!
All you need to do to enter the event is this:
1 Choose a breakfast food and make it gluten free (it might be inherently gluten free)
2 Post about it on your blog in the most delicious way you know how, by May 21.
3 Include a link to this post in your post and make it obvious what the event is.
4 email me the permalink to your post and a jpeg image for the round up.
Then just swing by at the end of May for the round up and enjoy reading about everyone elses breakfasts.
I look forward to hearing all about it!
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Some mornings though, I wake with a feeling to bake, or make pancakes, to poach an egg or two and toss some mushrooms in a pan. Or I might just spy a pear at the very point of ripeness, juice saturating the flesh, waiting to run down my chin and snake round my wrists.
Of all meals, I think breakfast is the most personal, the meal that comforts our foggy heads, brings our dream selves back into our bodies and sends us out the door ready to face the day. So my challenge this month is to create and post about a breakfast dish you love. It could be a simple smoothie or it could be waffles with piles of berries, whipped cream and syrup. Hey it could even be miso soup! I want to see the variety of breakfasts out there and the many ways you find to make them interesting and delicious.
I'd love to hear about your mornings too. Why not let us know a little more about yourself and why you eat those things for breakfast? Maybe you'd like to tell us about your perfect weekend breakfast, when there is time to cook up a feast and linger over the papers. Maybe there's a history to your breakfast, a recipe passed down to you, a childhood memory of eating that food and all the thoughts and feelings it evokes. Be creative!
All you need to do to enter the event is this:
1 Choose a breakfast food and make it gluten free (it might be inherently gluten free)
2 Post about it on your blog in the most delicious way you know how, by May 21.
3 Include a link to this post in your post and make it obvious what the event is.
4 email me the permalink to your post and a jpeg image for the round up.
Then just swing by at the end of May for the round up and enjoy reading about everyone elses breakfasts.
I look forward to hearing all about it!
x x x
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9 comments:
Good morning, Naomi!
We're on the same page with breakfast. It's my favorite meal of the day and I have no problem having what most people might think of as dinner for breakfast (soup, sauteed chard, brown rice, whatever).
Count me in! Hmmm? It's 7 AM, what do I want for breakfast this morning? A poached egg on teff toast, brown rice with shiitake mushrooms and a scrambled egg, or quinoa porridge with dates and honey? Or, homemade granola with almond milk and fresh berries?
In good health,
Melissa
Good morning Melissa!
What a fantastic sounding range of breakfasts. Glad to hear you are bucking the trend for sweet breakfast foods (mostly) I hope you can contribute one of those delicious meals for the event?
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I probably still won't have a kitchen by then! I'll look forward to reading everyone's entries, though...
Forkful,
you can still tell us about what you eat in the mornings - how does one make breakfast with no kitchen? Even a bowl of cereal says something about you, how do you have it? With banana and yogurt, or berries and juice? Drenched in jersey milk or dry out of the box with a rabid look of desperation on your face?
Come on - we want to know!
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Naomi - This sounds like great fun! Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. Count me in!
Natalie @ Gluten a Go Go
Hi Naomi! When I went GF, breakfast was the toughest meal for me. I was definitely addicted to oatmeal, and I hadn't yet found a source of GF oats. And I was pregnant. Not a good combo. Fast forward a year and a half. I've found GF oats, but I've also found breakfasts that I like as much or better than oatmeal (good for my budget). Quinoa porridge with popped amaranth is my new fav!
Gluten free in the greens,
In that case, I look forward to your submission!
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finally have a recipe to post for this naomi!! i'll post it soon! great event!! I look forward to hosting for June!!
Carrie, I look forward to receiving your submission!
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