bircher muesli + berries

HELLO SUNSHINE!

Hah! As if. Don't you dare come near me early in the morning as I may kill you. Or just glare angrily as any physical movement takes too much energy.

Another breakfast post. Because food is good and mornings suck so we should at least try to make them a little better.

This here is just bircher muesli with berries and it is so easy and fast to make. This makes it ideal for school mornings and it's REALLY tasty. I make mine the night before so when I wake up in the morning, all I have to do for breakfast is grab this and eat. This method is particularly helpful if you are like me and find that you stay up way too late at night (or early morning) and wake up way too late in the morning.

Okay, so ideally for bircher muesli, you are meant to soak the oats overnight before adding all the yoghurt and stuff but on weekdays- SCREW THIS. I just do everything at night and leave it in the fridge and it is still good in the morning. If you have time, then yeah, do it the proper way. You can top it with anything you want. So fruits, nuts, whatever, they all taste great. I normally like adding walnuts to mine as well.

bircher muesli + berries [serves 1, recipe originally for 4]

1/2 cup rolled oats
1/4 apple juice
2 tablespoons yoghurt
1/4 juice lemon
1/4 grated apple
berries [fresh or frozen]
1/2 tablespoon honey

1. Soak oats and apple juice in a small bowl for 15 minutes.
2. Add yoghurt, lemon and grated apple and stir to combine. It should be quite liquidy.
3. Put into another glass or bowl and top with berries and honey.
4. Clingwrap and put in fridge.
5. Sleep.
6. Wake up.
7. Eat.

NOTE: If you want to do it properly, soak the oaks in the juice overnight. Then do all the yoghurt combining stuff in the morning.

So yeah. Very easy. I'd recommend you guys to make this and hey, it's kinda healthy! Just go easy on the honey. Putting it into a glass that is easy to hold is also recommended as you can walk around the house eating while doing what you normally do in the morning.

I WILL attempt to post more from now. More being, maybe 1-2 a month...DON'T KILL ME. Year 12 is scary. But then maybe I'll make more comfort food. And then photograph more comfort food. And then post more comfort food. Hmm, okay I only think the eating part is very likely. How terribly unfortunate. All right then. Off to do maths. Damn.

Ooh! Picture!

Remember that...sigh...I don't remember anything.

apple cinnamon waffles + chai latte

happy birthday to me...

Sorry for the extremely long absence as I was busy doing....nothing. Anyway this post goes out to Jackie Gao who for some reason has taken a liking to this blog. I'm just super lazy and cbbed making a post. I WAS going to do a post on the birthday cake I made for my dad but it was really ugly and that made me sad...

OH WELLS. POST STARTS HERE.

So, I woke up this morning hungry and seventeen. The seventeen thing was new but the hungry thing was quite a familiar territory for me. Unfortunately we were out of bread so my glorious plan of toast and peanut butter for breakfast was ruined forever. After raging for several minutes cursing my useless, empty kitchen I finally decided to make waffles which I haven't done for years. We also had an excess of apples so I put them in the waffles too. And I like cinnamon. I like chai. Don't you love my idea generation to action process? I am so simple minded. Anyway here are some pictures of food.

Now THAT'S breakfast.

Eugh can I just have this paragraph to complain about how hard it is to take photos of yourself holding something? YES I CAN. It is an absolute pain. Especially since I am love with manual focus but that requires two hands but I don't have a spare hand BECAUSE I AM HOLDING SOMETHING. aoirfhvcoha. Well that was fun.

So let's breakdown this breakfast!

Remind me never ever to say/type that again.

In a nutshell: Waffles with of apple and cinnamon in it and chai tea.

In an overly-long descriptive way that makes it sound fancier and tastier than it actually is just like those Red Rock Deli chips flavour names-I mean really, 'vintage cheddar' and red onion?? It's just cheese and onion! Whoa that went off topic. Oops. : Homemade waffles with sliced ripe Fuji apples spiced with ground cinnamon and spiced chai latte topped also with ground cinnamon.

Ahh I love adding fruit to sweets. I can pretend that I am being healthy. I don't think that's a good habit. Anyway the apple is gets cooked whilst the waffle is made and it gets all soft and warms and tasty. I like.

Recipe time.

[I used a really basic waffle recipe because I am lazy, if you are bothered, you can make belgian waffles but egg whites=electric beaters=cleaning=NOH]

apple cinnamon waffles (serves 2ish)

1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon caster sugar
1 cup milk
1 egg
1 tablespoon oil.
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 sliced and peeled apple

1. Stir flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together in a bowl.
2. Stir in milk, egg, oil and combine.
3. Add cinnamon and apple and stir.
4. Cook using waffle iron until golden brown. The time depends on your waffle iron.
5. Top with apple and syrup and serve.

okay I kinda went a bit crazy with the cinnamon. I would recommend you NOT to add as much as me.

ON TO THE CHAI LATTE.

So anyway I was at the markets on the weekend and saw some chai tea mix so I thought that I might as well try it out. It's probably not authentic but hey, it's tasty.

chai latte (serves 1)

2/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon chai tea mix
sugar
cinnamon

1. Heat 1/3 water with the chai tea mix and let it simmer for 5-10 minutes. This will brew a strong tea.
2. Strain into cup.
3. Using an espresso machine, steam the milk until about 70 C and is frothy. Pour into cup.
4. Stir, add desired sugar and top with cinnamon.

Overall it was pretty tasty and great for an impromptu breakfast. If I had more time or willpower I would have used a more complex waffle recipe and gone easier on the cinnamon. The chai latte was good but I recommend using full cream milk instead of lite milk as it foams better. Jeez when did this get so damn formal? DANCE!

oh and guess what? MY TRACE HAS BROKEN. I am now able to perform spells outside of Hogwarts. Mwhahahaha. Time to magic these dishes away.

Well, until next time. Which uh...maybe in a while. Remember, DON'T perform spells if you are under seventeen. Magic is awesome. As is Harry Potter. Until the very end.