Banana-Oat Smoothie

I made this for breakfast this morning and loved it! It is very filling and tasted wonderful!

Ingredients:

- 1/2 rolled oats (not instant!)

- 1 cup plain yogurt

- 2 ripe bananas

- 1 cup milk

- 4 Tsp honey

- 1/4 tsp cinnamon

Combine oats, bananas, milk, honey and cinnamon in a blender and puree until smooth.

Serve immediately. Makes 2.

Adapted from Everyday food.

For breakfast tomorrow!

Since the quiche was such a huge success, I made another one today. I think it has become a tradition to make some extra mini quiches for the next morning!

Julia has recently decided to rate my food with a star system and after taking her first bite of today's quiche she exclaimed that it was worth 100 stars! Aww, sweet girl, she knows how to make mommy happy!

Fabulous pancakes!

I recently discovered King Arthur Flour's "Guaranteed" recipes and I am very impressed with the results. So far I have made the pancakes, the shortbread and the banana bread and they were all so good that I doubt I will ever try a different recipe for them.

Here's the printable version from King Arthur website.

Ingredients:

- 2 large eggs

- 1 1/4 cups of milk

- 3 Tbsp melted butter or vegetable oil

- 1 1/2 cups flour

- 3/4 tsp salt

- 2 tsp baking powder

- 2 Tbsp sugar or 1/4 cup malted milk powder

Beat the eggs and milk until light and foamy, about 3 minutes at high speed of a stand or hand mixer. Stir in the butter or vegetable oil.

Whisk the dry ingredients together to evenly distribute the salt, baking powder and sweetener.

Gently and quickly mix into the egg and milk mixture. Let the batter rest for at least 15 minutes, while the griddle is heating; it"ll thicken slightly.

Heat a heavy frying pan over medium heat, or set an electric griddle to 350°F. Lightly grease frying pan or griddle. The pan or griddle is ready if a drop of water will skitter across the surface, evaporating immediately.

Drop 1/3 cupfuls of batter onto the lightly greased griddle. Bake on one side until bubbles begin to form and break, then turn the pancakes and cook the other side till brown. Turn over only once. Serve immediately.

Today's Brunch!

The drink is a Mimosa (Champagne and orange juice), it's our favorite brunch drink :-)

The fruit salad is not looking too hot, I know.... I forgot to buy more colorful fruits. Then there is maple sausage. And the best part: zucchini and cheddar frittatas. Maia made this not oo long ago and it looked so cool that I had to try it! Mine didn't puff out as much as hers but they tasted delicious nonetheless! Here's the recipe.

This is what they looked like before going in the oven.

Then, after about 20 minutes:

They were delicious and very easy to make!

Granola!

Thanks to Maia's recipe, I made my very own granola and I will shamelessly say that it's the best I've ever had! Truly addicting!

Here are most of the ingredients before I put them together. On the left: rolled oats, barley flakes, oat bran, sunflower seeds, almonds. On the right: maple syrup, canola oil and vanilla extract.

Here's the granola before it went in the oven.

And here it is out of the oven, in all its fabulous crunchiness!

Oh, and I also roasted some coconut shavings that I added to the granola once it was cooled down :-)

And here's the finished product! Granola with yogurt (homemade too) and some maple syrup on top. YUM!