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| My favorite muesli |
Breakfast has always been my meal. I almost never go out for it,
and nobody makes it for me. It is a
chance to eat exactly what I want, how I want it. I think a lot of people feel the same way
about the coffee that they drink (but I don’t drink coffee). Like brushing my teeth, bathing, and getting
dressed, breakfast is part of my morning routine that I approach in a way that
reflects who I am. So it is no wonder
that I often prepare this meal as efficiently as possible, using ingredients that
are either conspicuously inexpensive and/or extravagantly wild. Like most humans, I go through fads, and my
breakfast meals are no exception. My favorite
breakfast dishes are pancakes with maple syrup, breakfast burritos, Northern
Gold granola, muesli, and smoothies but I don’t rotate through these in any systematic
way. Rather, I dwell on one for
months at a time and then randomly switch to another.
Lately I have been on a forager’s choice
muesli kick. The recipe is simple:
1 cup rolled oats
¼ cup apple sauce
¼ cup apple sauce
¼ cup elderberry pulp
4 chopped dates
Add water, let sit until the oats get
soft, and enjoy.
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| Wild Berry Smoothie |
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| Chinese Hawthorn Fruit Leather |
A few days ago I discovered some berries
that I hid in Dad’s freezer, so I am on the verge of switching over to smoothies. I posted my favorite smoothie recipe last month. I also found some frozen Chinese Hawthorn(Crataegus pinnatifida) pulp that Katrina and I made from street trees in Victoria. Last night we made some Hawthorn fruit leather which turned
out exceptionally well.