Excessively Breakfasted

Saturday, November 9, 2013

So glad it is the weekend.  I have lots to do, much of which will of course remain undone, but I have the luxury of some extra time.  I burned through some of it making a full breakfast.  Of course it was much more than I am now used to ... quite full as a result.  But it was good and I have some oatcakes in the freezer now.

Breakfast:  2 jumbo CF eggs, scrambled with a splash of milk and a pinch of mexican cheese.  6 strips CF garlic pepper bacon, oatmeal pancakes with banana, the other 1/2 of the banana, coffee

Breakfastus Excessivus

Decided to experiment with banana pancakes this morning ... except I forgot to add the mashed 1/2 banana to the batter.  So I added it to the last big oatcake.  A bit overpowering, but tasty.  Next time I'll try it in the batter, and maybe I'll have some peanut butter on hand too.  Oh, and I tried using honey instead of maple syrup as the sweetener.  It paired nicely with the banana but is a little bland on its own.  I think I like maple better.

Lunch:  3 small cups of chili with cheese, jalapenos and sour cream, 24 oz Miller Lite

Mmmm, chili with fixins.

Very tasty.  I could have had more jalapenos.  I could have had less of everything.  Whatever.

Dinner:  Lazy man's roast beef dinner.  ~ 5 oz Spartan deli roast beef, several yukon gold potatoes mashed with butter and milk, ersatz beef onion gravy, frozen peas.

Adding a small onion, chopped, to the gravy produced fabulous results!

Still all kinds of yum, but it hit me later -- why am I paying for deli roast beef when I could have just thawed out a pound of plain old grass fed ground beef, cooked it up and made a delicious onion gravy to have with it?  The roast beef is good but it's not twice as much good and the grass fed stuff is better for me obviously.  I could have also made hamburger gravy, another favorite, with my remaining supply of milk.

Oh well, more ideas.  Good but must they all involve potatoes?  I finished my bag of yukon golds, so I'm down to a stock of ~ 4 lb of organic russets.

Exercise:  Didn't walk this morning.  Wind was absolutely howling, 30+ mph.  Also knew that I would be cleaning and golfing.  Did golf, 18 holes with cart, some extra walking.  Pedometer said 4.85 miles (including trip to grocery store afterward).  So, something.

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