Tasty Thursday: Breakfast!

Today's Tasty Thursday is all about breakfast! 

Who doesn't love breakfast? No one you say? WRONG. I don't really love breakfast, I like breakfast and actually I usually have to force myself to eat something that is considered a breakfast item. I would much rather eat a bag of chips or a cold piece of pizza for breakfast but, when your trying to get bikini ready those are not wise choices. 

So today I have not one, but two breakfast ideas and recipes for you! Both are tasty and low in fat! 

First we have an omelet! 

Spicy Turkey Spinach and Cheese Omelet to be exact. 

I like eggs but they need to be savory, I used to love scrambled eggs as a kid and now I can hardly eat them without feeling like I want to gag. Lovely I know... Anyway. Moral of the story iswhen I add other items to the eggs I'm good. 

This  is what you'll need...

I forgot to take a picture of the milk...

3 Eggs, cheese, fresh spinach, hot sauce, milk, salt and pepper.

Beat the eggs, milk and hot sauce together in bowl, pour the mixture into a hot, lightly oiled pan. 

Small pan for small omelet

Salt and pepper, now, to your liking. 
After you add the salt and pepper add as much spinach and turkey as you like. 

Yumyum!

Turn your heat down to like medium low and cover, don't go anywhere because this won't take long.
See how the omelet in the picture has turned a light yellow vs. the dark yellow from the first picture, it means your egg is cooking... good job! That is why you want your heat on low, you don't want to burn the bottom of your omelet.

Cheese me.

See how the omelet has now become a little fluffy, it may look very undone on top but it'll be okay, I promise. Add your cheese, any kind, I only had American so that is what I used. 

Now you fold your omelet. You can fold it with a spatula or flip it like I did! Too bad I wasn't running video, it was pretty damn Food Network worthy.

Food Network Worthy...boom.

You can now turn your heat off and cover the omelet again for a few minuets and you'll be ready to eat!

Yum. This omelet with have your creepy annoying dog salivating by your feet.

Spicy Turkey Spinach and Cheese Omelet
313 Calories
1 or 2 servings 

Ingredients
3 Eggs

1 Tbsp milk

1-2 Tbsp hot sauce

1/4 cup fresh spinach 

2 Tbsp chopped turkey lunch meat

1 piece of cheese (any kind)

salt and pepper

Beat eggs, milk and hot sauce together. Add mixture to a hot, slightly oiled pan. Salt and pepper to taste, add turkey and spinach. Cover until it looks slightly cooked. Add cheese to half of the omelet and fold omelet in half. Cover again and finish cooking. 


Now the special second recipe for those who prefer something on the sweeter side!

Whole Wheat Waffles 

These were surprisingly good, I was a little worried they were going to be dry and grainy because the whole wheat flour can really do that to some baked goods. 

First you'll need...

Milk, eggs, coconut oil, ground flax seed, whole wheat flour, baking powder and salt. Yes that is all. Easy peasy.

In a large mixing bowl add your flour (2 cups), flax seed (2 heaping tsp), baking powder (2 tsp), and salt (1/2 tsp). 

Add all the stuff to da bowl.

Mix the dry ingredients together.

Now set aside and get ready for the dry ingredients. 

Separate your egg whites and yolks. Whites should go into a glass bowl because it is easier to fluff them in a glass bowl. Add your egg yolks (2), milk (1 1/2 cup), and coconut oil (1/3 cup). If you don't have coconut oil any will work but it give the waffle a good flavor and it is good for you. Mix up your yolk, milk and oil mix and quickly stir into the dry ingredients. I say quickly because coconut oil hardens quickly! If you get it mixed in it won't do that. 

Now fluff your egg whites. Beat them like you'd beat your husband for playing video games instead of folding laundry like you asked him to...

They should sit on our whisk like so.

Now fold your egg whites into the rest of the waffle batter.

Do not over mix or all your hard work will be gone and your waffles will be very dense and chewy. 

Once you've mixed your batter let it set for about 10 minuets, this is perfect time to clean up your mess because I know you have flour everywhere. And a good time to heat your waffle iron.

I didn't clean the kitchen, I watched Supernatural for 10 minuets...

10 minuets has passed, you cleaned or like me stared at Dean Winchester from Supernatural now you can make your waffles!! Yeahhh buddy!

I have this round iron so I put a little bit in each corner and made myself baby waffles. They are filling!

Once you have them all made up you can stick them in bags or containers and save them for next week by freezing them or for tomorrow by sticking them in the fridge! 

I didn't even have to put syrup on mine I made a sweet mixed berry compote! 

NOM!

 Whole Wheat Waffles

Makes approx. 6 servings

303 Calories per serving

2 cups whole wheat flour

2 teaspoons ground flax seed (optional)

2 teapoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cup milk

1/3 cup coconut oil

2 egg yolks

2 egg whites (beaten until fluffy)

**You could add a little cinnamon as well, like a tsp. I just thought of that.

Heat your waffle iron.

Beat your egg whites until white peaks form and set aside.

In a bowl mix together flour, flax seed, baking powder, and salt.

In a separate bowl mix together milk, oil and egg yolks. Combine wet mixture with dry mixture and mix just until combined.

Fold in egg whites.

Let sit for about 10 minutes before you start making them. (Good time to clean up)

Bake in waffel iron until done.

Add some mixed berry compote to the top and you don't even need syrup! :)

Enjoy!

<3 Brittni

Comments are appreciated! I'd love to know if you tried the recipes and if you added your own spin to them!

Spring Has Arrived!

Well it is spring in PA! It was a wonderful 56-60 degrees all weekend, it was pretty nice yesterday but a little cloudy, now today we have more rain then we need for one day, and this week we are supposed to dip back down into the 30's. Oh yes, PA weather... how I loath thee.

Lovely rain day.

My poor flowers are probably getting drowned out today! I took the pictures below yesterday, these bright signs of Spring flowers are known as Crocus. I love these little flowers! They mean that the warm weather will soon be here, and as soon as it gets too hot they are going to die. They are especially neat when they pop up before the last snow and as long as they have sun they will bloom. You can buy bulbs anywhere offline!

 I would now like to direct your attention to my husband. He is kind of goofy but that is why I love him <3 He has been so good to me these past 5 years and even better these past 5 months. He has been so supportive with me quitting my job in October, getting into a pickle and now starting my own business. I am so blessed to have this crazy man in my life. :-)

 Also this little baby! I was going picture happy yesterday :)

No I did not take the picture of Phill that would mean I was up in the air also... not happening Jack.

Walk Down Memory Lane...

'No one ever injured their eyesight by looking on the bright side of things'

(I originally found the picture on http://piccsy.com/2012/05/picc-snv3zvbm/)

This is so me right now. Despite things not being ideal currently I feel like this says it all!

I am a realist, it has its ups and downs. I think the best part of being a realist is that I see things in two different lights, I'm not a pessimist so I don't always think the worst and I'm not an optimist, I don't always think the best. So I guess if you really think about it being a realist is pretty damn good. Ha. Amazing what writing a thought down does!

So tomorrow starts my trek of biking, that is how I came about this image I was Googling biking stuff.

I am challenging myself to ride close to 10 miles a day and I haven't sat on a bike and rode more than 10 minuets since before I was 16. See back in the day the "Shady Crew" (we weren't shady we actually lived in a development called Shady Cabins, we're original.) and myself would ride our bikes from my grandmothers in 'Shady' to my new place of residence in a town 3.5 miles away! We would do that multiple times a day if I do recall correctly!

Biking map

That is the route we'd take, keep in mind that was the easy way if you wanted to ride up the huge ass hill! We'd typically take the long way around which was an extra 10 minuets so we wouldn't have to work to hard! 

Oh the days when we were young! Riding our Haro's and Mongoose's, chasing boys around, walking down "the road" at 11 p.m. because we could and it was safe where we lived. The most danger we faced was going in the cow fields with the bulls, climbing trees that were rotten, starting fires in the dead of summer and almost burning down an entire circle of trees (a.k.a. The Tree), falling on ice I can only think of one person that fell on ice every single year! Haha Oh my gosh. 

We used to make towns out of leaves, there was never a shortage.

Every summer we'd have sleep overs anywhere and everywhere but mostly end up on my grandmothers porch or at one persons house in particular, she had a pool. I always ended up being the one going in the water at 1 a.m. wearing my ducky pajamas! Along with being thrown in the pool I think we watched Bring It On, Coyote Ugly and Fast and Furious oh I don't know... 1,000 times? Just the summer they came out?!

Oh and who could forget tubing down the crick?! Ugh, every day we'd be out by like 10 a.m. blowing up the tubes and walking down the road to get to a good spot, float down to the swimming hole and either get out and do it all again or start looking for sea shells! One year I ended up with my back so sun burnt from probably 2 hours of sea shell hunting. 

This is how we roll.

Oh I miss those days. <3

I know to most people who read this they won't get it but I know a few that will and it was such good times at Shady, I loved my childhood, 

I... have a stick.

One thing that makes me sad is that we've all grown up and grown apart, not far apart but still apart. Also the state in which our beloved Shady now resides, fields are over grown, the crick has become more of a stream, and most of all I no longer have any ties to the place. My grandmothers place is for sale and the twenty-four years of memories I have are now just that, memories. 

I can only hope that my kids get to know and love a place like Shady.

(If anyone has any pictures from our days in Shady could you please let me know? I'd like some.)

Thanks for reading!

Comment with your favorite childhood memory or a place that you thought was just as amazing as I always thought Shady was!

<3 Brittni

Blurb.

Small little post I'd like to write. 

The Bible: Good show.

First PR party: AWESOME! Thank you everyone who came :)

Last week: I bought a mountain bike.... 

Tonight: My husband will hate me for trying to make a new recipe, without following a recipe.

This week: Possible snow storm!? Not holding my breath.

New: Ink... within the next month. YES! So excited.

What's good: Grape salad. I wasn't so sure at first but then I had a second bowl and I was like yeah, its delicious.

Last but not least...

Cutie Patutie Dilly being a morning grumpy pants. 

I love my dogs. (Dilly is my favorite!)

<3