An Oldie, But a Goodie

It may have taken a while, but I made it home!

My flight was set to leave Boston at 6:30pm yesterday, but was delayed multiple times due to engine troubles. We finally left Boston around 8:30pm and were on our way back to Dallas.

Usually I can’t really sleep on flights but I was so tired I fell asleep during the last leg of the flight.

Then we landed and I thought we were home. But we weren’t.

Apparently there were too many thunderstorms and clouds in Dallas we had to divert down to Waco and fly back up North to land in Dallas. But since we had been taking the long route to Dallas from Boston, avoiding clouds from St. Louis to Dallas , by the time we made it to Waco our plane didn’t have enough gas to get us to back to Dallas. We ended up flying further down south to Austin to get fuel up.

It was quite an eventful night to say the least. I finally made it home this morning at 4am, slept a bit and woke up more than ready for breakfast.

No more breakfast in cups for me!

I went back to an old favorite. Pancakes.

An oldie, but a goodie.

With no trips to the grocery store in over a week the only available fruit this morning was a lone apple I brought back with me from Providence.

No worries though. I love apple pancakes.

This time I added diced apples into the batter. Best decision of the day, I’d say.

Fluffy and apple stuffed pancakes are really quite the way to start the day. Especially when your right eye all of a sudden feels a piercing pain and waters up like no other. And repeats every 5- 10 mins.

It all started midway through flipping pancakes. I would feel a pain in my eye, it would water up and then continue to be painful for another 20 seconds then go away. After the pain it would feel like I had something in my eye, then the pain would come again in a bit.

I was hungry though and wanted those pancakes!

Apple stuffed Pancakes

1 diced apple – 1/2 into the pancake batter and 1/2 for the topping

2/3 cups kodiak cake mix

2/3 cups water

1 T almond butter

Maple syrup

This breakfast takes no time at all, but taste like I spent a long time on it. I just mixed the kodiak cake mix with the water, added the diced apples to the mix and cooked up the pancakes on a dry non-stick skillet.

Then I heated up the remaining diced apples with a splash of water in the skillet until soft, mixed it with almond butter and topped it on the pancakes.

[Side note: It's been 9 days since I last had almond butter. It was a necessity.]

A slight drizzle of maple syrup and the first bite was taken.

YUM.

My eye pain continued as I ate so after I had my last bite [sad face] I called my optometrist.

Luckily she could fit me in 30 mins later.

The verdict?

 I cut my eye. Right below my pupil.

Who would’ve thought? I don’t know how it happened, but it happened so now I have a lovely stick of antibiotic ointment to rub on my eye twice a day, along with a bottle of pain reliving drops.

Luckily it was something minor! In about a week my eye should be as good as new :)

And now that I’ve eaten the last piece of fruit in my house, I need to go participate in one of my favorite pastimes. Grocery shopping.

I hope everyone is having a good week so far!

WIAW # 7: Hong Kong Edition

Happy Wednesday!
We’re this much closer to the weekend!

Peas and Crayons

I believe this is my first WIAW outside the states.
Lets get movin!

Pre-Workout:

 1/3 of an apple
[no pic]

Lately I’ve found that eating a couple bites (apple, a couple walnuts, some toast…) before working out gives that extra kick of energy I need.

Today was weights day.
My favorite!

Post workout:

Chocolate Protein
[1 packet true vitality chocolate + 1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk + 1/2 cup water]

Anddd, pancakes!
I’ve been on a pancake roll lately. Can’t get enough of them!

[1/2 cup kodiak cake mix + 1/2 cup water]

Today I kept is simple by just topping them with some honey almond butter and strawberry jelly.
Doesn’t the jelly look like it’s arm around the almond butter, hugging it?? I’m telling ya…match made in heaven.

On a side note, I should probably work on getting my pancakes the same size… and perhaps the same color.
One step at a time.

Mid-Morning Snack:

So remember how I made some pumpkin quinoa the other day? I still had 2/3′s of a can of pumpkin sitting around and as much as I wanted to just trash it, it just seemed like too much of a waste.

So I thought I’d try making something I might slightly enjoy.

Pumpkin Spice Latte
[anything with coffee in it, I'm game]

I have to say Averie sure knows her stuff.
Anyone who is a pumpkin fan, I highly recommend checking out her recipe!

And I also had a slice of my current favorite snack:

Cheese and Jelly Toast

[strawberry jelly + 1 slice laughing cow cheese + toasted slice of  sprouted whole wheat toast]

The cheese slightly melts into the warm toast and goes perfectly with the strawberry jelly.
Soooo good.

Lunch:

Since it’s my last day here I needed to use up some of my produce stat.

kabocha squash + button mushrooms + carrots

20 mins in the oven and lunch was ready.

Plus some bread from one of my favorite places!

Always perfectly soft and chewy

One
cheesy tapioca roll

Look how soft and pillowy inside!

and one
chocolate chip tapioca roll

All washed down with these fellas:

Sparkling water and malted soy milk

Late-Afternoon snack:

A snack bag of baked cheese puffs

Dinner:

One of my favorites!
Japanese.

Lots of sushi and sashimi were eaten.
So much that I only managed to take a grand total of 2 photos.

Ever seen fruit sushi?

 I haven’t! It was interesting.

So, that’s what I ate today!

Lastly a BIG thank you to our lovely hostess Jenn!

What’s your favorite cuisine?? -
Mine are Japanese and Italian, but a lot of the time I prefer my ‘homemade’ cuisine :)

Hello Fall

Fall Breakfast: Round 2

Let the games begin!

Since my welcome fall breakfast was a total flop the other day (to me at least…), I thought I’d try again.

This time I nixed the canned pumpkin and quinoa and brought in an old favorite.

Pancakes.

You can’t go wrong with pancakes. Especially when they’re Kodiak Cakes.

Enter:

AMAZINGLY GOOD BREAKFAST

It all came together in a flash.

1 cup kodiak cake mix + 1 cup water equals 3 ultra fluffy and delicious pancakes

and

3/4 of a large apple chopped and heated in a pot + a splash of almond milk + a couple dashes of cinnamon + 1/2 t vanilla bean paste stirred in after turing off the heat equals delicious pancake topping

A drizzle of manuka honey as a finishing touch.

I’d say, the only problem with this breakfast was that the last bite came too soon.

Thats okay though. Apple season has only just begun and I foresee many more of these in the near future.

Hellooooo Fall! :)
Now if the weather would just cooperate…

What’s your favorite fall breakfast?