WIAW: Best of Breakfast

Happy Birthday to my big brother, Gabe!

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Oh hey, it’s that time of the week again.

Go thank our hostess and check out the other WIAW partiers.

This may come as a huge shock to you, but…

I love breakfast.  Like a lot.  Can you believe there are people out there who don’t even eat breakfast?  (I’m looking at you, Mom)  And can you believe I even used to be one of those people??

Actually, even I don’t remember not eating breakfast.  Maybe I always have eaten breakfast, but seeing as I can’t remember what I used to eat, it clearly wasn’t very good.

My how things have changed.

When your boyfriend brings home red velvet cheesecake, throw it on some oatmeal and call it breakfast.

Friends, there’s a very thin line between breakfast and dessert.  Very thin.

And for me it gets thinner every day. 

While I’ve stopped doing the whole “Surprise, here’s another bowl of oatmeal I had for breakfast” thing, I still secretly snap pictures on an (almost) daily basis.

You know, in case someone should doubt that I actually eat a giant satisfying breakfast.

Or if I need a reminder as to why  breakfast is the best meal of the day.

Hot oatmeal has been sneaking in lately. 

I could lie and pretend it’s because it’s been rainy or chilly or something, but really it’s because I’m too lazy to throw oats, milk and flax in a jar at the end of the day.

My energy is replenished enough by morning time to cook up some oats on the stove.

Toppings should always be a plenty.

Overnight oats topped with crumb cake, granola and peanut butter.

Like really a plenty.

Sometimes a girl just needs to go back for more toppings.

Aforementioned toppings plus homemade jam and coconut butter.

And when oatmeal is too labor intensive, there’s always pancakes.

Which only requires staring at the stove and patiently waiting… oh wait, that’s exactly how oatmeal works too…

Doughy pancakes, layered with homemade jam and granola and topped with chocolate hazelnut butter, maple syrup and what-do-ya-know, more jam.

Watch out for that nut butter waterfall.  It’ll get you.

Please ignore the watery milky overnight oats.  I clearly don’t know how to adjust my oatmeal to milk ratios.

Instead, focus on how the amount of peanut butter in my breakfast has slowly but surely increasing.

And I’m totally okay with it.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned this week, it’s that I need to be reading this blog.

CCK’s Snickerdoodle Cookie Pancakes.

Katie wasn’t kidding about this recipe making “super-fat pancakes.”

And then this happened.

Chocolate hazelnut butter, almond milk and maple syrup microwaved for a few seconds and mixed together.

And then some granola found its way in there.

Healthy never tasted so decadent. 

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What’s the best breakfast you’ve had recently?