Category: Breakfast
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French Toast with Nut Butter and Jam – Easy & All in Pictures
You bet, this is easy – and darn delicious! All it takes is spreading your favorite nut butter and jam on a piece of cooked French toast either fresh out of the frying pan or warmed in the microwave to give you a topping that’s both flavorful and much more energy-sustaining that traditional maple syrup…
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Pan Cooked French Toast – All in Pictures
I don’t know about you, but I sure love the smell of butter, eggs, bread, vanilla extract and ground cinnamon cooking in the morning. Great stuff! Here’s what it takes to put together fresh pan cooked French toast. Click any picture on this page for a complete, freshly revised and more colorful step-by-step picture book…
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Easy and Safe Soft or Hard Boiled Eggs – In Pictures and Video
All right! Adios, snow – bring on spring! The weather’s getting better – yah! We’ve got a big holiday weekend ahead. Boiled eggs – either plain white or brightly colored – are gonna’ be centerpieces of kids’ dreams Saturday night and breakfast tables Sunday morning – and, yes, it takes a real man – or…
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Nut Butter, Yogurt, Fresh Fruit and Dried Fruit Topping – All in Pictures
Last time, I showed how to make almond, quinoa and flaxseed pancakes, shown below, that are a great energy-sustaining alternative to sugar “spike and crash” traditional flapjack pancakes. Here are the ingredients to make a nut butter, yogurt, fresh fruit and dried fruit topping that goes great on those pancakes – or any pancakes, French toast, or waffles –…
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Almond, Quinoa and Flaxseed Pancake – Picture Book Recipe
Do traditional flapjack pancakes, especially when they’re soaked or slathered with your favorite sweetener, tend to give you – or your kids – an eye-bugging, “take-on-the-world” energy spike followed not long after by a nose-diving, “UGH!” full body crash? You bet I know the feeling,..and it’s all caused by sugar. But why give up pancakes…
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What I’ve Learned From 1 Week of Coffee Without Sugar
Earlier this week I wrote that I was going to try a full 7 days of coffee without sugar in an effort to be more personally aware of how much sugar I take in day to day. Yesterday was day 8. I started out trying coffee again with no sugar and didn’t like it at all.
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Pineapple, Yogurt, Jam and Dried Fruit
As promised, here’s a quick and easy way to use freshly cut pineapple. All you have to do is add yogurt, jam and dried fruit, and you are good to go. Here’s what you need. Just click either picture on this page for a complete step-by-step picture book recipe.
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Cycling: Chocolate Pumped “Star Wars” Ride Fuel
I don’t know how you feel when there’s a big snow storm expected, but for me, my mind flips a switch, my heart rate goes up in eager anticipation, and one of my favorite things to do is to get out on the bike and try to time it just right headed for home just…
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Cycling: Winter Pre-Ride Holiday Flavored Breakfast with a Kiwi Twist
You bet it’s gonna’ stay darn cold here in the Northeast with a good shot of snow expected this weekend from winter storm Electra. My heart’s already racing about the probability of doing some cross training on cross country skis. But until then, there’s still clear weather to get on the bike to see things…