Daily Routine
Breakfast!
Every day I have a bowl of oatmeal. Since it’s the warm time of the year, I have at least two strawberries in it. Today I had three strawberries, leftover mango, sprinkled some cinnamon and a bit of Stevia for sweetness. I had it with a glass of ice coffee. Have I mentioned how much I love cold brew coffee? Seriously. I don’t even add milk or sweetener to it. The fact that I can drink it in the morning and not worry about my tummy is freaking amazing.
We’re back from our trip to Bar Harbor. We had a great time and had a lovely anniversary. I do plan on sharing some photos with y’all at some point. With two cameras and both of us being shutter bugs, there’s a lot of photos to go through. Speaking of being a shutter bug, I’ve decided that I will be doing another 30 day photo challenge come July. Keep a look out for it. Now on with the food.
We were trying to figure out what to eat Sunday and Harry suggested pancakes. I thought about it (and the delicious blueberry pancakes I had at 2 Cats our last day in Bar Harbor). I then spied with my little eye a Granny Smith apple I had taken from the hotel’s breakfast and thought “What am I going to do with one small apple?” Bingo! Apple pancakes.
Harry used his go-to recipe and just added a dash of cinnamon plus the diced apple. Yum!
I had some cold brew coffee (it is that time of year after all) with mine.
Last week a friend turned 30 and we had a his party on Saturday. Needless to say, after a long day of celebrating, we felt very lazy on Sunday and just went out for brunch.
We went to Panera. Harry brought his new toy, the Nook Tablet and I brought some knitting. I’ve tried to remember what I had, and frankly, I can’t remember. I know I had coffee to drink. I might have had french onion soup and salad as that’s something I often get when we go there. In the photo Harry is enjoying an orange scone (one of our favourites).
Yesterday was the day after my birthday party. So many birthdays at the end of April! Last week I had made some chicken vegetable soup with leftover turkey stock (I had made around Thanksgiving), some root veggies, herbs and craisins. For brunch we had the rest of the soup and some salad leftover from the party. I had a glass of cold brew ice coffee and Harry had some sweet tea (Best sweet tea ever! The trick, a pinch of baking soda!) I had made for my party as well. A lot of times, I don’t even add milk or sweetener to cold brew ice coffee. It’s that good. Mmm…café style lunch. One of my favourite things.
Bonus photo for this week, my birthday cake!
Yes, that is indeed Totoro dressed as Batman! Click here for the inspiration art. The design was up to Harry (I did allow a surprise. Shocking, I know.) and I picked the flavour, triple chocolate. So decadent! Friday I had made some strawberry coulis. Perfect accompaniment to the cake! Everyone seemed to really like it, too. I love the design, it’s two of my favourite characters in one! :)
