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Cauliflower English Muffins Recipe. Tahini Toast recipe on Food52. Author Notes: It's like peanut butter toast...but tahini-er!

Tahini Toast recipe on Food52

This is one of my favorite super speedy breakfasts or snacks. I got the idea from Jess, of Sweet Amandine. This isn't so much a recipe as an assembly process, using amounts of everything to suit your taste. The one thing to know is don't omit the salt or the tahini will taste bitter and not nearly as scrumptious as it could be. (less)Author Notes: It's like peanut butter toast...but tahini-er! Serves 1 1 thick slice of your favorite toasting bread Butter Tahini (sesame paste) Ground cinnamon Honey Flaky sea salt Toast your bread on a high heat setting just until the outside is browned and crisped but the inside is still soft.

Turmeric Steel Cut Oats Recipe. Caprese Salad - Healthy Greek Yogurt Recipes. {Recipe Redux} Savory Herb Yogurt Parfait - Fresh Food Perspectives. It's Recipe Redux time again and I loved our challenge this month: create a recipe using fresh herbs in a nontraditional way.

{Recipe Redux} Savory Herb Yogurt Parfait - Fresh Food Perspectives

I love cooking with fresh herbs (see here, here, and here just to name a few) and have a number of them growing on my porch at all times. I also love coming up with nontraditional uses for an ingredient. I consider myself an unconventional kind of gal so it just suits my personality. After toying with a few ideas, I decided to try a savory yogurt parfait. Parfaits are commonly sweet, made with fruit, granola and sweet yogurt. Slow-Cooker Apple Pie Quinoa. Want to go wake up to the smell of an apple pie that's actually healthy enough to eat for breakfast?

Slow-Cooker Apple Pie Quinoa

If you love oatmeal, but are also kind of sick of having it so much, you'll love this hot breakfast made with quinoa instead. Since it's cooked in soy milk, it has an unbelievably creamy consistency that offers almost 13 grams of protein per serving and 7.5 grams of fiber. Quinoa Bircher with Persimmons & Petals. Would it be presuming of us to think that a few of you are reading this post in horizontal position?

Quinoa Bircher with Persimmons & Petals

We are imagining you lying on the couch with a big bowl of Christmas food leftovers balancing on a pillow next to you and a pile of cookies on the sofa table? It’s how these days between Christmas and New Year usually are spent. And rightfully so, after all the holiday craziness it’s nice to just doze away for a while. But sometime soon you will probably start feeling for something fresh again. Regardless if it is tomorrow or next year, we’ve got the perfect recipe for you. First time we tried quinoa bircher was at one of the many trendy Melbourne cafes, one year ago, and then again at Satan’s Coffee Corner (that name!) Comforting Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal With All The Fixins’ Good morning!

Comforting Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal With All The Fixins’

Hope you are having a great start to your week. Well, my dinner recipe didn’t turn out exactly as I wanted it to last night, so that post will be coming up later. Açai Berry Bowl. Peaches & Cream Overnight Oats. Holy moly.

Peaches & Cream Overnight Oats

I feel as though my house picked itself up and we moved to the tropics. The humidity out here in Southern California is ridiculous these days. The marine layer has settled in, “June Gloom” as we like to call it, and is spreading a blanket of mugginess all over us. When the weather becomes sticky I usually want to eat out for every meal. Apple Pie Overnight Oatmeal. This Apple Pie Overnight Oatmeal will have you eating dessert for breakfast, while getting a serving of whole grains and tons of protein.

Apple Pie Overnight Oatmeal

Prepare the night before and you have an easy breakfast waiting for you in the morning! I got an email last week from a blog reader letting me know that the breakfast recipes I have on FFF has changed their life. Before they found FFF, they didn’t eat breakfast, but now it’s an important part of their day. Uhhhh this was like the best email to wake up to EVER. Warm and Nutty Cinnamon Quinoa Recipe. This stunning berry-studded breakfast quinoa is from Dr.

Warm and Nutty Cinnamon Quinoa Recipe

John La Puma's recent release - Chef MD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine. I've written about just a handful of books this year (more to come, I promise!) , but I wanted to highlight this one for a few reasons. It's a fantastic healthy-cooking (and eating) primer written by a someone who is both a doctor and chef. The book is text heavy and photo-free, but for those of you who want to dive into some of the ways food can work for you, this is a good overview. Coconut Lemon Ginger Apple Oats.

I love lemon bars but can’t tell you the last time I had one.

Coconut Lemon Ginger Apple Oats

Mostly it’s because I don’t bake that often and while I feel like they were always at party dessert tables when I was younger, they aren’t so much anymore. Last night when thinking up what kind of oats I was going to make this morning, I decided to make one in honor of the lemon bar. This came out better than I envisioned in my head, honestly. I decided to do 1/2 rolled oats and 1/2 steel cut oats (both gluten-free) to get some of the chewy texture of the steel cut oats but keep some of the airiness of the flakes. Coconut Black Rice Breakfast Pudding.

The holidays are over.

Coconut Black Rice Breakfast Pudding

The rush of New Years has passed. And now we plummet, head first, into the depths of winter. Well, that was uplifting, Sarah. Okay, perhaps it feels a little doomsday around here with the weather as it is. It rains, it pours, today it snowed, and I have to turn the lights on in the house at 2pm. Cinnamon quinoa porridge w/ orange + rosemary apple recipe. You know one of the things that makes me laugh the most about this whole online world thing? The fact that I can take photos of my breakfast while still in my pajamas, robe (dressing gown) and ugg-boots and no one is none the wiser! Ha. I'm sure if my neighbours ever happened to look over our fence they would think I was crazy, heck they probably already do think I'm crazy from all the fighting they hear my kids doing out in the backyard... but to see some lady standing on a chair hunched over a wooden board taking photos at 7am while still in her jimmy-jams, well that would make for one strange sight!

To make up for my complete early-morning madness yesterday, after breakfast the kids and I did what any sane person would do when the sun is shining and went for a bike ride to the park. See, totally sane and normal eh? On the way to the park, we checked in on a couple of olive trees down the road that we're lining up to raid when they're ready. Coconut Chia Pudding with Raw Citrus Compote, Sour Cherries, and Toasted Pistachio - DOWNTOWN EPICURE. Raw Buckwheat Porridge De Luxe. We did it again … survived another winter in Sweden! Okay, I realize that we are only in the beginning of February, so it is technically still winter for at least another month.

But it feels like we are on our way towards spring now. The sun is visiting Stockholm a few more minutes every day. And the birds are returning! It’s such a joy to hear them sing again in the mornings, and you realize how quiet it has been during the past months. We have been making a lot of different varieties of warm porridge to fight off those cold winter mornings. One of the keys to optimal health is to have a good digestion system.

I make this raw porridge by soaking buckwheat groats and walnuts overnight and then blending them with apple, orange juice and cardamom. Coconut Cashew Millet Pudding with Chai Pear + Apricot Compote. Hey there friends. I know it’s been a minute. I promise I’ve been busy doing some good stuff. Most recently I returned from South Carolina, where I got to spend 10 days split between visiting with friends in Charleston and my parents and niece in Myrtle Beach. While I love living in NYC, it was so nice to escape the grind for 10 days on the beach, by a pool, in thrift shops (one of my favorite pastimes) and spend quality time with people I care about. Clean Food Dirty City. 1 frozen banana (freeze when very ripe)1 cup frozen strawberries1/2 of a beetUnsweetened almond milk, enough to blendSplash sweetener, if desiredHemp heartsChia SeedsCacao nibsUnsweetened coconut flakes Slice very ripe bananas and place in freezer along with the strawberries, preferably overnight.

Pour a generous splash of the almond milk into the blender (you will need to use more if you are not using a high speed blender). Throw in the frozen banana, frozen strawberries, and beet. Protein-Packed Pumpkin Oatmeal. Getting yourself up early in the morning to make a protein-filled breakfast can be harder than getting Kim Kardashian to stop taking selfies. (Not going to happen.) This is when a lot of us turn to sugary cereals and on-the-go snack bars that fill us with empty calories (yep, the kind that leave you feeling…well, empty). But recently we came across a perfect winter breakfast that will fill you with powerful protein and get you out the door feeling happy and ready to take on the world in about five minutes!

Lee from Fit Foodie Finds created a combination of Designer Whey French Vanilla protein powder, oatmeal, and Smari Organic Icelandic yogurt to provide the perfect consistency for your breakfast. Once you try this concoction you’ll be jumping – not dragging – out of bed in the morning! Pumpkin Maple Protein Oatmeal Ingredients: Directions: Combine all ingredients in a small pot. Xx, The FabFitFun Team. Creamy Mango & Banana Overnight Oats. Golubka Kitchen. August 18th, 2010. Raw breakfast crumbles + almond cream. Orange Maple Polenta. You guys kind of rule. Your kind + generous words from my last post are appreciated more than you could ever imagine. A Surprising Raw and Vegan Recipe: Cashew-Cardamom Chia Pudding. Sugar-Free Apple Pie Chia Seed Jam + Breakfast Parfait. September 5, 2013Angela (Oh She Glows) This is the sort of recipe that takes away all the end of summer blues, at least temporarily. Healthy Dessert with Quinoa. A Hearty Quinoa Breakfast. Coconut-Almond Breakfast Quinoa.

Now that summer is here, one thing I’m really enjoying is not having my mornings so rushed. No more racing to make school lunches, getting kids dressed, and hurrying to the bus stop. Apples and Cinnamon Breakfast Quinoa. Healthy Breakfast Ideas: 17 Healthy, Autumn-Inspired Recipes (Pumpkin, Pomegranates, Pecans & More) Oatmeal Mason Jar Breakfast Meals. Cinnamon chia pudding with banana, dates & almond butter.

Kitchen Cure Snapshot: Yogurt with Oats and Kiwi The Spring 2010 Kitchen Cure. How To Cook Steel-Cut Oats for Breakfast the Night Before. Bircher Muesli with Spiced Strawberry Sauce. Make Your Own Fruit-on-the-Bottom Yogurt Cups. Chia Seed Breakfast Bowl. Yogurt with Toasted Quinoa, Dates, and Almonds recipe from food52. A Chia Pudding Primer. Peanut Butter Overnight Oats. Totally Baked: Hemp Protein Granola Bars. Healthy Chia Seed Breakfast. Blueberries ‘n’ Cream Amaranth Porridge Recipe. Honeyed Grapefruit Yogurt Parfait with Popped Amaranth Recipe.