Sunday brunch

Sunday is my only free day so I usually like to sleep late and make an effort when preparing breakfast (which is usually eaten at a more lunch-like hour). This week I discovered a great new recipe blog, and the pancake recipe is from there. Today's brunch consisted of pancakes with chocolate sauce, organic berries and maple syrup. It was all a little sweet for my usual taste, but hey it's Sunday.

Banana & peanut butter pancakes (for 1)

1 very ripe banana
1 egg
a tiny amount of baking soda
1 tbsp peanut butter
a little salt

1. Put the oven on 200°C.
2. Mash the banana until smooth. Add the remaining ingredients and mix.
3. Pour the dough into 4 pancakes on a baking tray with baking paper.
4. Bake for 15-20 min or until golden brown.


Chocolate sauce

2 tbsp butter or coconut oil
2 tsp honey
2 tbsp raw cacao powder
1/2 tsp bourbon vanilla

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and that's it. Although if the butter is very hard you might want to put the bowl in some hot water for a while to soften it.

Emma

My morning

Since Emma did a post on her mornings, and we've been talking about our morning routines and how they differ from each other, I decided to post about my mornings as well. Now, as I work at the airport (as a gate agent if you want to know) my work shifts vary quite a lot. For the earliest one I have to wake up at about 3.30am (or about 2.45am if I have to ride my bike to work) so that doesn't leave very much time at all for any lengthy morning routine. The one thing I do every morning, before eating anything, is I have a large glass of water, about half a liter, with 1 teaspoon baking soda in it. This is to drive out all the extra yeast gathered in the intestines from years of eating sugar and toxins.

After this, I eat my breakfast, either at home or at work, consisting of raw porridge with wheatgrass powder, hemp seeds, sunflower seeds, oatmeal, bee pollen, flax seeds, blueberries, and anything else I find in the cupboard pretty much. I mix all of this in a bowl and pour soy milk over it, and let it soak overnight. I won't fool you, it looks absolutely disgusting, but I like it. After having had my breakfast, depending on the day, I either go back to bed for about an hour and then for a run, or I just simply start my day, which is what I did today. 

As Emma will be discussing lunch today, I think I will join in on that discussion too in my next post, seeing as on any given day I eat about one meal at home and the rest at work.

Anna