Protein and potassium breakfast bowl

Literally one of my easiest breakfasts. As mentioned a few posts ago, my potassium drops pretty easily, so I needed to get it back up again. Yesterday I stuffed half a sweet potato with scrambled eggs and cheese and tomatoes and mushrooms. Delicious, but filling, and I wasn't in the mood for cheese.

- 1 egg
- 1/2 leftover sweet potato
- butter
- salt
- pepper

1. Heat a non-stick pan, ideally no added butter or oil. If it needs it, only a little bit.
2. Microwave your leftover sweet potato until it's warm, verging on hot, about one minute
3. Fry your egg, try not to pierce the yolk. Lightly sprinkle some salt and pepper on the egg
4. Scoop the sweet potato out of the skin into a bowl. Add about a tsp of butter and mash it up. Sprinkle some salt and pepper and combine it all.
5. Plop the egg on top of the sweet potato
6. Enjoy.

Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal

So it snowed (a worthwhile amount) for the first time today. Yay Canada!! It's so beautiful, I couldn't possibly deny myself a warm winter-friendly breakfast to get my day started. Thankfully, it was a lot easier than I thought it would be. You can easily pack this up and run to class, too. Breakfast on the go!

Ingredients:
-1/2 cup oats
-2/3 cup milk - and a little extra for at the end
-1 sweet apple (mcintosh, gala,red delicious, empire, pink lady, whatever you'd like. I guess you could even do granny smith if that's what you like)
-2-3 tsp brown sugar
-1/2 tsp cinnamon
-pinch of salt

1. Pour your milk and oats into a bowl. Let those sit while you cut up your apple into slices. Depending how much you like, I used two slices and cut them up to tiny bits, but you can use as much as you'd like I guess. I just ate the rest while it cooked, no use in wasting fruit.
2. Mix your small chunks of apple into the oats and milk
3. Microwave for 2 minutes, 15 seconds
4. Mix in a dash of milk, the brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt.

Be careful not to burn yourself taking it out of the microwave, it can be pretty hot!

Breakfast cups

Some days I wake up and I think I might die if I don't eat something. Eggs are definitely my favourite breakfast food, however I get pretty darn tired of frying them and eating them plain. I got creative, thinking of other recipes I've seen, and I made some breakfast cups! :)

Ingredients:
- 2 eggs

- 1/4 tomato
- 2 slices of cheddar cheese

- 2 leaves of spinach

- 2 slices of deli meat (ham, turkey, chicken, etc..)

1. Dice the quarter of the tomato, chop up the spinach, slice the cheese horizontally to make short + thin pieces
2. Beat the eggs in a separate bowl or cup
3. Try to line the ramekins or mug with the deli meat.
4. Add spinach and tomato to the bottom
5. Pour egg either half and half into the two ramekins or all into the one mug
6. Sprinkle the cheese on top. Add salt and pepper if you want.
7. Microwave for aprox. 2 minutes for the two ramekins, or 1:30 for the mug

If it seems wet, keep putting it back in for 10 seconds until it's fully cooked.

Enjoy!

No Stove French Toast

Sometimes I'm really lazy in the morning. Sometimes, I also want a really yummy breakfast that goes beyond "toast and peanut butter". I'm a huge fan of french toast. It's always been a favorite of mine, but I hate cleaning - and with french toast you have to clean the pan and the bowl and the fork you whisked the eggs with and the fork and knife and plate you used and ugh. It's just a mess. I saw this recipe a little while ago, but I forget where so don't ask me to tell you, and thought I'd give it a shot this morning. Happy to say, it was a success!


1 egg
1 tsp sugar
a shake or two of ground cinnamon
1 slice (depending on the size, maybe 1.5 if you're going with the classic wonderbread size) of a fluffy, thin crust bread.  (Basically, nothing dense like rye or pumpernickle, and try to avoid seeds - they're annoying)
optional - maple syrup and/or other toppings


- Combine the egg, sugar, and ground cinnamon with a fork in a medium-large mug
- Cut the bread into cubes. About 3/4" squares should work.
- Add the bread to the mug and slowly move it around, trying not to cut it up or squish it too much. Make sure every piece is covered.
- Microwave for 1m10s
- Top and eat!!

Strawberry Overnight Oats

1/3 cup milk
1/3 cup vanilla yogurt or greek yogurt
1/2 tbsp honey
1/3 cup steel cut or rolled oats
4-5 strawberries
6-7 almonds

-Combine milk, honey and yogurt
-Slice (and chop if you want smaller pieces) the strawberries
-Carefully cut the almonds so you end up with chunks and not shredded pieces of almond (yuck)
-Add oats to the milk mixture, stirring and eventually making sure there aren't any clumps of dry oats
-Add the strawberries, mix them in a little
-Press the oats down and make try your best to make sure they're covered by liquid.
-Sprinkle almond chunks on top, press them down lightly, don't mix them in
-Leave overnight in the fridge, preferably covered to avoid "fridge taste"


Microwave in the morning if you want to take the chill off :) Enjoy

Banana French Toast

Now, since I am not yet in my dorm and still living at home, I still have access to my stove and frying pan. If you don't have a stove, you can try to rig your clothing iron to stay upside down and use aluminum foil as your pan, you can wrap your pieces of bread in tin foil and have squished french toast, or you can venture out into the scary common kitchen. I'll be instructing you on the scary-venturing-to-the-kitchen method.

For the toast
-2 pieces of brown bread
-2 eggs (If you're using your clothes iron you may want to use only 1.5 eggs to avoid mess)
-1 tsp cinnamon
-1 tbsp brown sugar

For the banana part
-1 banana
-1/2 tbsp brown sugar
-1 1/2 tbsp butter (I use becel olive oil margarine)
-1 tsp cinnamon

1. Set skillet to medium-low (3.5 out of 8) and place some butter in the pan to give it time to melt.
2. Combine eggs and cinnamon in a shallow bowl.
3. Quickly soak each side of the bread in eggs, letting each side soak for about 1-2 seconds.
4. Place pieces of toast in the pan. If there is extra egg mixture in the bowl, don't get rid of it.
-while the first side toasts-
4.5 - drop butter, cinnamon and brown sugar into a bowl and throw it in the microwave for about 40 seconds.
       - slice up a banana, throw the slices in the melted butter and mix it around (oh my god use a spoon, it'll be way too hot)
       - now you can choose to either place the banana in the microwave for 50 seconds OR you can wait til the skillet is free and fry them up for about a minute. I fried mine, but microwaving has worked in the past too.

5. About a minute before you flip your toast, slowly pour the remaining egg mixture on the raw side. Try not to let any of it spill over the edge. I find moving it around slowly with a fork helps it sink in.
6. Sprinkle the brown sugar on top of the raw side, let it rest for a few seconds to sink in and flip!

Once your toast is done, throw it on a plate, put the bananas over it, and cover it with maple syrup if you so choose! This is a very sweet breakfast, no doubt, but it was soooo delicious.