I'm So Blue

Ever since the blueberry pancakes a couple days ago, I've been craving blueberries! So last night I mixed some oats and oat bran with soy milk and let that sit overnight with about 3/4 cup of frozen blueberries and half a banana. This morning I added an unhealthy amount of cinnamon, agave nectar, and maple syrup, and microwaved for 3 minutes. You'd think with all that sweetness from the nectar and syrup, it would be a sweet tooth sensation, right? Wrong! This was the blandest bowl of oats I have ever feasted upon. I attribute the lack of flavor to the -frozen- blueberries. Flavorless themselves, they added nothing but volume to the dish. Eventually I was forced to pour in a packet of Splenda to make the taste more bearable, because I hate letting food go to waste.

Lesson learned: always use fresh blueberries.

Late Dinner

After a physically and mentally draining day, nothing hits the spot like a peanut butter-maple syrup-agave nectar sandwich. It's a more "elegant" version of peanut butter and honey, in my opinion. I had this dinner very late, almost 9 o'clock at night, so it's a good thing I had an afternoon snack:

SoDelicious coconut milk strawberry-banana yogurt with chopped plums and ginger granola. I also added Peanut Butter Puffins to the cup after I took the picture.


In case you were wondering, that's Rudolph on the plate.

Ultimate Grilled Cheese

It's just deathly hot outside! Especially when you're walking around town for hours in heavy clothing! What was I thinking?
After collapsing on the couch to have some much-needed TV-watching down time, I made my way to the kitchen to create this: the ultimate grilled cheese. My sandwich consisted of gobs of raw onion, cubed avocado, tomato, and "mozzarella cheese." I grilled it in olive oil until the bread was crunchy (the cheese had a hard time melting, though) and served it alonside a bowl of thick tomato soup and a small sliced apple. I also had a nectarine (not shown).


On another note, I ate a cashew cookie Larabar for my snack this morning, and ohmygosh I was utterly amazed at the ingredients! I ate it thinking, "hmm, I taste almond..cranberry.." Boy was I wrong! There were two ingredients: cashews. dates. I was blown away.
See you all for dinner!

What To Do With Leftover Chocolate Waffles

Make them into a sandwich! Spread peanut butter onto two waffles, then add banana and maple syrup to make a sandwich, and grill! De-licious! Especially burnt, the burnt flavor brings out the chocolate more and makes it crunchy!

I also ate another plum (not pictured) and I might have a nectarine seeing as it's still breakfast time.

Concoctions

Not much to say about my dinner tonight. I sauteed some onions in extra virgin olive oil, added some pureed tomatoes, a ton of cayenne pepper, about 1/4 cup of black beans, and some leftover peas, and served it all over some white rice mixed with spinach. The taste was surprisingly good! And very spicy, just the way I like it. If your lips don't burn for 20 minutes after you're done eating, then it's not spicy enough!


Dessert was a dried pineapple ring topped with a hazlenut chocolate truffle, then warmed in the microwave until the chocolate melted and I could dip the pineapple in it!


Mmm, melty!

Rain

What a wonderful day! The rain has finally forced me to relax and stay home for the first time in weeks, and it feels great! I did manage to hang out with a friend this morning, though. A girl's got to socialize, right? Between breakfast and lunch I snacked on a piece of bread with peanut butter and about, oh, 3 Italian plums. Then for lunch I made this:

A grilled peanut butter sandwich! I'd never tried one of these before, but it sounded so good, and I hadn't had a grilled sandwich in ages! Not since the exile of grilled cheese. I spread both pan-sides of the bread with maple syrup, too! And ate with a nectarine and a couple more plums (I have bags and bags of them, also bags and bags of apples and pears, I should post a picture of them!)

Two-By-Two

My breakfast this morning took me an hour to make! For some reason, to cook four pancakes, it took over a half an hour. The rest of the time was spent assembling the batter and cooking the sausages.

Here it is: two Banana Blueberry Pancakes, with a side of two sausage halves and two cut-up plums, all drizzled with agave nectar and maple syrup!