Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day; I know, I sound like a broken record, but to me (and others, I guess) it’s not just a meal: it’s your first choice of the day, a simple pleasure, yet one that I truly cherish. I really don’t get people who have breakfast in a rush or those who (shock! horror!) skip it altogether. [READ MORE]
I hate Mondays. I hate them with a teenager’s ferocity, passion and stubbornness. The weekend usually seems too short and by Sunday night, I often feel less than ready to face the week ahead.
But Monday comes, always, and with it the promise of a new week and the possibility to make it as pretty and exciting as you please. It is Monday and it is a new week, and it is up to us to make them count, right? And it all starts with a good breakfast. [READ MORE]
A couple years ago, I became full on, absolutely, ridiculously obsessed with soda bread. I would buy a chunky loaf from our local bakery/deli and polish it off in a couple of days. It was dense and fulfilling, with just the right amount of sweetness and dried fruit- and the best part: it was just divine with some soft butter spread on top. [READ MORE]
When I hear the word ‘smoothie’, I usually picture a juicy burger, too many sweet potato fries and a larger than life glass filled with peanut butter ice cream and- wait, that’s not a smoothie. That’s a milkshake. Right… I always get these two wrong. [READ MORE]
I first came across a recipe for a bread pudding going through the pages of Cosmopolitan, on a night flight from London to Athens; I was tired, cranky and super hungry. But flipping through my favourite flight read, there it was, the perfect mood changer: a dessert made with bread, sugar, milk, dried fruit and nuts. I mean, what’s not to be giddy about? [READ MORE]
I always prefer going to the gym is early in the morning- as early as possible, so I can get it over and done with; also the relative quietness allows me to focus on my workout and my daydreaming about food- my favourite thing to think about when exercising. [READ MORE]
A couple months ago, I told you all about how breakfast is my favourite meal of the day. Seriously; I never ever skip breakfast; it doesn’t matter if it’s 6 in the morning, frantically trying to catch a flight, or hangover silly after two glasses of red wine. There has to be breakfast and it has to be good. [READ MORE]
Christmas morning is one of my favourite times of the year. It’s always spent in our house in the mountains, just the four of us, opening presents, while consuming copious amounts of coffee and dragging the monstrous breakfast we have prepared to almost lunch time. [READ MORE]
Pancakes are my favourite leisurely breakfast; easy and quick to prepare, versatile, sweet or savoury, I love them all. I usually make them on Sunday- after I come back from the gym (I believe counter-productive is the word you’re looking for here). [READ MORE]
This week is all about breakfast; my favourite meal of the day, my favourite thing to make and eat.
“Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life… Somewhere, someone is starting breakfast and thinking, ‘Today will be better than yesterday’…Wherever, whenever breakfast comes, it’s a mouthful of stoic optimism.”, writes A.A. Gill in ‘Breakfast at the Wolseley’. [READ MORE]