breakfast

Millet and Oat “Soft Granola”

February 6, 2012
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Happy Monday! Hope you all had good weekends and good game days. I was memorizing amino acid side chains as my home team secured a victory, and it wasn’t until a friend texted to tell me NY had won that I actually flipped on the TV. But I hear there were some pretty funny ads [...]

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Easy Chocolate Chia Crumble Topping

January 20, 2012
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The other day, I caught myself sprinkling a tablespoon of ground flaxseed onto a warm and bowl of morning oats and fruit. This is force of habit as much as anything else: I’m simply very accustomed to putting flax into my oats as they cook, or sprinkling it upon them after. As soon as I [...]

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Almond and Chickpea Bread with Dried Fruit

January 5, 2012
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This recipe has a long back story. Last week, one of my readers wrote in to ask if I had any recipes for muffins made with coconut flour. She’s a diabetic, and coconut flour is one of the more low-glycemic flours on the market. I didn’t have that, but what I did have was some [...]

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Strawberry Ginger Chia Pudding

January 3, 2012
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If you checked out my new recipe tab yesterday, then you probably noticed that I’ve kept my ch-ch-ch-chia tab, which is a recipe tab devoted entirely to chia seed puddings—one of my quickest, easiest, and most beloved breakfasts. This week, I decided to make my first chia pudding of the year a new recipe. Strawberry [...]

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Chocolate Avocado Sauce and Chocolate Avocado Breakfast Salad

December 30, 2011
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Happy Friday!!! I can’t believe that NYE is upon us. Time, as they say, flies. All morning, I did the annoying thing where I excitedly tweeted about an “awesome” recipe and then refused to say what it was. I should make a point of not doing this, because when I do, the pressure to deliver [...]

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Edible Giving Continues: Low(er) Fat Apple Cinnamon Raisin Buckwheat Granola!

December 20, 2011
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First of all: I am so sorry that you guys have not seen a raw green veggie on the front of this blog in a week. Who AM I? It’s just that I’m darn proud of my assembly of edible gifts this holiday season, and I’ve wanted to share them all with you. So bear [...]

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Sunday Breakfast: Carrot Cake Pancakes

December 10, 2011
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So happy that I made you guys so happy with my Alo yoga gear giveaway! If you haven’t entered yet, now is the time: I’ll be announcing my winner on Wednesday of this upcoming week. So I think you can probably guess why I decided to make carrot cake pancakes the other day. Part of [...]

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