In <3 with Breakfast
Friday morning’s breakfast was spectacular. I had a pancake craving that needed to be satisfied in a big way. Enter Pumpkin Spice Pancakes.
Pumpkin Spice Pancakes (serves one):
- 1/4 cup flour
- 2T homemade Scottish oats
- 1/2T ground flax
- 1/2t pumpkin pie spice
- pinch baking powder (I hate being able to taste this!!)
- 1/4 cup vanilla almond milk
- 2T pumpkin
- Mix dry ingredients (flour, oats, flax, flax, spice, powder)
- Mix wet ingredients in a separate bowl (almond milk, pumpkin)
- Add wet to dry and drop into greased skillet. I separated my batter into 3 pancakes.
- Cook on low until easily flippable, which is totally a word.
- Top and enjoy!
So what could possibly rival yesterday’s breakfast? How about today’s breakfast?
I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today. Really wrong. I blame Tonka entirely. But breakfast helped to brighten things up 🙂
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/3 cup almond milk
- 1/2 banana
- 1/4 cup pumpkin
- dash pumpkin pie spice
Topped with granola, cashews and hazlenut buttah. Yummmm.
PLUS….
A homemade pumpkin spice latte courtesy of Mama Pea. I have a lot of fun planned for today and knew caffeine was necessary so I pulled out the coffee maker for the first time in, oh say, a year? For some reason I suspect you coffee addicted bloggers will find that insane 😉
SO.FULL.
Off to the pumpkin patch! ❤
Running Returns
I went on my first run since the half marathon yesterday morning and it was just as wonderful as I’d hoped. My legs felt rested and ready to go!
4 miles in 35:56 🙂
My calves are feeling it now though.
Pre-run snack was a couple of dates — I love these!
Post-run breakfast was another simple bowl of nut butterless oats. What is wrong with me?!
I’ve been adding in my banana at the beginning lately and it just breaks up on its own when I stir the oats. Usually I add it in at the end and whisk really hard to whip the banana. This new method is so much easier!
As I mentioned yesterday, I bought flax seeds for the first time. I had chia seeds in my hand but they were $7 more and the whole flax seeds were $2 cheaper than the ground ones. I bought them and figured I could ground them on my own. Look at me saving all kinds of money 😛
Couldn’t have been easier.
1t went into my oats.
Topped with cherry vanilla granola (Does this stuff ever run out? I’ve been “finishing it off” for weeks!) + peanuts/peanut dust + peach jam, yummmmm.
Pretend you want to see a third picture of this same bowl.
I got to school earlier than usual today so I could meet with my advisor because I needed to hear him tell me I had everything I need to graduate in May. Turns out I do, or I will after I sign up for classes next week. I then turned in my grad paperwork and now all I have to do is show up to graduation, YI-PEEEEE!
It was one of those leisurely fall days where a cancelled class freed up my day so I could spend it reading, eating and tree gazing.
Joey made Baked Goat Cheese and Roasted Winter Squash over Garlicky Fettuccine (whoa, Cooking Light, a little long of a name, don’t you think?) on Wednesday and was kind enough to portion out the leftovers so all I had to do yesterday was grap the container out of the fridge and toss it into my bag for lunch. SA-weeeet.
Uhhhh, kabocha squash is amazing!!! What hadn’t anyone told me?
Apparently the goat cheese wasn’t cooperating and kept breaking apart but I didn’t notice because I was too busy mmm-ing and ahhhh-ing over the taste of my previously long lost cheesey friend. Goat is one cheese I’m willing to splurge on every now and then.
So so delish and get this. I ate lunch at ~2:15 and by the time I left work at 6:30 I still wasn’t hungry again yet. This is unheard of!
Good thing there’s more leftovers in the fridge 🙂
I joined the fam for dinner, which was a no bean chicken chili. Deeelish.
I then returned home and ate way too many cashews. That $11 bag will be gone before the weekend is up.
So what do you get when you add delicious food, family, sunshine and fall colors? One happy food blogger. I almost skipped to the bus. Almost.
What made you happy today?
How about the simple fact that it’s Friday? Wooo-hoooo!
How to spend a quick $20 at Whole Foods
It’s easier than you think.
I just needed a few things. Cashews, dates, Ezekial wraps, chia seeds.
I left with raw organic cashews that are awesome!
Non-organic do not compare. These are huge and have a great crunch!
Oh and because GT’s Kombucha is back I needed me one of those too.
Fizzzzzzz
I also got dates and traded out my chia seeds for flax seeds because they were $5 cheaper and work the same way.
They were out of Ezekial wraps, bummer. I’m still not sure how I spent $20 but I blame the $10.99/pound cashews…
I was feeling unimaginative with my oats this morning. No nut butter, what?!
Whipped banana oats topped with cranberry orange granola, dry roasted valencia peanuts and a blob of mixed berry compote, the jar of which almost broke my wrist while I was trying to unscrew the lid.
Sometimes simple is best.
Lunch was simple too.
Since the oven was already on 400* for Tuesday night’s pizza I popped in two tiny acorn squash brushed with olive oil and sprinkled with salt and pepper.
Joey was so confused when I put these in our grocery cart. He kept asking “What are we going to do with them?” Eat them, of course!
Pretend this isn’t all wrinkly from being in the fridge overnight.
Paired with a couple of carrots + hummus and an unpictured Brown Cow Cherry Vanilla yogurt. Cream top is so so good!
I wasn’t sure how well this lunch would hold me over but it worked out perfectly 🙂
Looking forward to leftover pizza for dinner. The rest of my library co-workers will be green with envy I’m sure.
Thick delicious crust, yummmmmm
I have a feeling my homework may be postponed until after I look up/find a Turkey Trot to run on Thanksgiving. I’ve always wanted to run one!
Ever done a holiday race?
Happy Thursday, friends.
Lauren Loves Good Food 