Subtleties of the Everyday are My Reality Check

Things like the feeling of thirst, blind spots when driving, or finding the beat in a song when it changes. In my last post I asked you all if you pay attention to how certain things affect you. I also said that lately I’ve been approaching my meals at home with no forethought. Take breakfasts for example. I would always say that I’m more of a “sweet breakfasts” person, but lately I’ve been waking up many mornings wanting different things. Or sometimes I’ve been waking up with nothing in mind. If I’m hungry I’ll walk to the fridge, open it, and stare up and down for five minutes. So here are some of my recent varying breakfasts.

I’ve been using different grains.

I made Ashley’s Chocolate Buckwheat Breakfast bake, but next time I don’t want to add so much cocoa powder.

Baking single-servings always feels special.
I think throwing in some dried fruit would make it slightly sweeter too.
Rise and shine!
This time around I used some leftover quinoa to make a parfait.
Quinoa, peaches, apples, Greek yogurt, almonds, and honey.
The idea of scrambled eggs is nauseating to me, but scrambled tofu is a different story.

I combined these two recipes: breakfast scramble and tofu taco, and then added some of my own dashes of flavor.

Bean burritos for breakfast are not a stranger to me now.
Crunchy Jicama and Mango Salad with Chile and Lime

I bought jicama for another recipe and had some leftover, so I found this delicious recipe to try out. So refreshing!

Beans cooked in… I can’t remember, tomato, lebni (Kefir cheese), cilantro, and onion in a brown rice tortilla.
Savoury sandwiches.
Yes, even tempeh rueben’s for breakfast.

Sauerkraut in the morning? I combined two recipes again: vegetarian reuben sandwich and tempeh reuben.

Now what is this lovely looking blob thing?

Another recipe from Ashley, a banana cornbread cake and if I remember correctly I just made the creature blob by simply mixing Greek yogurt, a bit of almond milk, and sunflower seed butter together to get this pudding like consistency.

And some maple syrup drizzled on top.
If you like grainy things then this recipe is for you!
Another breakfast using cornmeal, but it didn’t taste very earthy.

Kita’s cornmeal pancake recipe was so delicious!

Just maple syrup and butter.
I kind of wished the stack would’ve just reappeared in front of me.
These tasted like sweet cornbread, but not as dense and oily.
Savory breakfasts lookin’ fresh.
I made cheesy corncakes with a side of bean and sweet potato hash, and whipped up a tangy curry sauce to go with it. 
Ice cream for breakfast too!

I finally stumbled upon Coconut Bliss’sGinger Cookie Caramel” at the store one day, mind you I’ve been keeping an eye out for it since the flavor released a few months ago. I’m glad I picked it up because a) it was the last one, and b) I have yet to see it again.

I think you would too, if this was in your freezer.
I would eat this over cake any day. 
I also tried another new Coconut Bliss flavor: Mocha Maca Crunch.

This was also very tasty, and I loved the bitter crunch from the cacao nibs.

And another new-to-me ice cream!

La-Loo’s goat’s milk ice cream caught my eye, and I decided on vanilla. Whoa! This was so good that I don’t think I will ever buy another kind of vanilla ice cream. Ever. It was creamy, sweet ,and had an intense vanilla flavor like no other–no wonder it’s considered the “holy grail” of ice cream.

Any recipes in this post you’d like to try? What’s your favorite ice cream?

9 thoughts on “Subtleties of the Everyday are My Reality Check

  1. hello lovie :) long time no comment or talk!! I love your recipes and breakfast ideas, wow everything looks so good, you should be a chef…seriously girl you have some amazing skills!
    I’m definitely a sweet breakfast person, i’d much rather have fruit, oatmeal, yogurt, pancakes etc than eggs or whatnot.
    That quinoa parfait sounds/looks amazing, i definitely want to try that out as well as that cornbread banana cake with the sunbutter! :) ohh and la Laloo’s goats milk ice cream is such a great brand!…i love the fig flavor! And wow to the ginger cookie caramel coconut bliss, that sounds right up my ally of ice cream flavors ;)
    love you
    xx
    Eliza

  2. I’m amazed at the variety you enjoy for breakfast each day! I have a smoothie everyday for breakfast and after reading this it seems really boring. At least on the days I’m not sipping my smoothie I’m enjoying a bowl of Bliss :)

  3. i love laloos vanilla snowflake AND rumplemint omg so good! my fave frozen treat is frozen kefir by lifeway though. it was a miraculous find! that ginger cookie caramel looks so good..gluten free or not bc of the cookie?

  4. can you come over and cook me breakfast?

    i love how willing you are to experiment and try different things. i’d love to try the cornmeal pancakes and ashley’s banana cornbread cake. as you can tell i’m obsessed with cornmeal-related things (especially cornbread).

  5. I am partial to vanilla when it comes to ice cream. I will try to make some with goat milk later this week. I may turn the goat milk into kefir before I make it into ice cream; what do you think? I may top it with some fig jam I found the other day. See, your blog gives me all sorts of ideas!

    Jim

  6. Your breakfasts are very creative! I went through a phase in grade school where I would put refried beans and cheese on half of a bagel and pop it in the toaster oven. It was really tasty and thinking about it makes me want it now!

    Also, the ginger cookie ice cream looks dreamy. ;-)

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