Day Four hundred and six

Breakfast for dinner: Blueberry pumpkin pancakes, turkey bacon, scrambled spinach eggs, and mango.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!  I interrupt my normal schedule of posting to instead share a recipe with you.  This was on our table this morning. Breakfast for dinner, perhaps?

Buckwheat heart-shaped pancakes

¾ cup buckwheat

¾ cup flour (regular or gluten-free)

2 Tbsp sugar

1 Tbsp baking powder

½ tsp salt

1 ½ cup milk

2 egg whites
1 tsp vanilla (I added this in)

¼ cup melted butter

diced strawberries (optional)

In a medium-sized bowl, whisk dry ingredients together.  In a small bowl, whisk wet ingredients together.  Add wet ingredients to dry, mix until well blended.  Add strawberries.  Pour by ¼ cup onto greased, hot griddle or frying pan, in the shape of a heart.  Cook 2-4 minutes, until brown on edges and bubbling, and flip, repeating on other side.

Serve with syrup or powdered sugar, and enjoy!

(Original, non-heart shaped, non-strawberry recipe comes from a great, very family-friendly book, Gluten-Free Made Simple).

Day Three hundred and sixty-one

Breakfast for dinner: Scrambled eggs with broccoli, turkey sausage, blueberry muffins (I had these in the freezer from another time) and cutie oranges.

Day Three hundred and thirty-seven

Breakfast for dinner: Scrambled spinach and cheese eggs, cucumbers with ranch dip, orange slices, and homemade home fries. 
I  think my husband made the home fries.  :)  I love dinners that are "naturally" gluten free.

Day Three hundred and twenty

Breakfast for dinner: Scrambled eggs with spinach and cheese, homemade gluten-free english muffins (recipe: You Won't Believe it's Gluten Free), and sliced pear.

Day Two hundred and forty-three

Dinner: Scrambled cheddar spinach eggs on a ciabatta roll, and fruit salad.  I had planned to try a new recipe which looked a bit more time consuming, but the afternoon got busy, so we opted for breakfast for dinner.

Day Two hundred and thirty-two

Breakfast: Fruit salad oatmeal, sweetened with blue agave.

Coconut pineapple ice. This was so easy to make- 1 (20 oz) can of pineapple in its own juice, 1 (14 oz) can of light coconut milk, 1/2 c. sugar, 1/2 c. skim milk, and 1/2 c. half and half. Mix well, and freeze, stirring occasionally, or freeze in an ice cream machine.

Day Two hundred and eight

Lunch: Chicken salad on whole wheat potato bread with diced apples and celery, steamed carrots (leftover from last night's dinner), and strawberries.

Dinner: Breakfast for dinner: Pumpkin challah french toast, scrambled cheddar spinach eggs, and cantaloupe.

Day One hundred and seventy-eight

Dinner: Breakfast for dinner. Pumpkin whole grain waffles (these were leftover from the big batch I made over the weekend; I froze two sets of them for future use), egg/egg white spinach and cheese omelets, cut-up apples and pears.

My daughter's plate... she was proud of how she arranged her waffles. :)

Day One hundred and fifty-one

Dinner: Brinner (aka breakfast for dinner). Whole grain sandwich thins, cheddar spinach omelet (half eggs, half egg whites), turkey sausage patties, and fruit salad.

Day One hundred and thirty-six

Lunch: Another batch of garden vegetable soup, this time I tossed in some egg noodles (leftover from the chicken marsala), and a little turkey. Everyone here loves this soup, and I think I am addicted to it. Thank goodness it is so healthy!!

Dinner A: Mini cheese ravioli with marinara sauce, blanched spinach, and turkey bacon. Yes, I am aware that turkey bacon doesn't go with pasta, and that this is THE most random meal, but there is a reason. We were planning to have breakfast for dinner and I'd already thawed the turkey bacon, and then we were in the mood for pasta.

Dinner B: Actual breakfast for dinner (my husband still wanted it, so he carried it through). Eggs-over-easy with cheese, spinach, and turkey bacon, served on a whole grain bagel thin.

Day Ninety-eight

Fruit salad. This time of year, it's mostly frozen fruit, as good fresh fruit is so rare right now.

Spinach and cheese quiche in a whole wheat crust.

"To die for blueberry muffins" (recipe: Allrecipes.com). I use a little whole wheat pastry flour in these, but the recipe gets dense with too much. These really are incredible muffins.

Breakfast for dinner: Fruit salad, blueberry muffins, and quiche.