Tuesday, July 7, 2009

The Anytime Dish

Breakfast? Brunch? Snack? Really, I would eat this any time of day for any occasion. If you go in any remotely healthy restaurants you can usually find a fruit and granola cup, and it's something you can't go very wrong with. You can make it as light or as rich as you want, but it's always satisfying and sweet (and healthy)!

Here, I used fresh strawberries, blueberries and a banana, with the additions of Nature Valley Maple Brown Sugar granola bars crunched up, some honey, and about half a cup of Stoneyfield Farms Organic Whole Milk Vanilla Yogurt. The recipe is entirely flexible depending on one's personal tastes, but I like this combination best.

My favorite restaurant in town, Melanie's Food Fantasy, has a dish nearly identical to this. The only difference is my addition of blueberries, subtraction of orange slices for a garnish, and the fact that their granola is soft and chewy as compared to the crunchy kind I used. When I go there I usually make it a meal by ordering the vegan biscuits and gravy alongside (note to self: beg them for that recipe) or an egg and cheese biscuit. However, when I'm at home and lacking biscuit resources like today, I do something as simple as cheese toast. That way you get your salty and sweet and still remain in a similar breakfast-y realm.

I've been really lazy about posting here. I'm going to make an effort to photograph my food more! I've made very good things that have been worthy of photographs but have been too lazy to just take the picture. Now that's lazy, eh?

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Blueberry Scones


If you ask me, there's hardly anything better than a scone (with the exception of chocolate, of course)! This came from a box mix called Garvey's Best of Britain Traditional Scone Mix, which I got as a Christmas gift. I added about 3/4 cup of fresh blueberries to the mix and followed the rest of the directions as on the box. EXCEPT I think I may have needed to add sugar at some point and neglected to do that, the results of which proved quite fine because I don't like sickly sweet scones. Besides, the glaze I added on top made up for the lack of sweetness in the scone itself. Since they're not too sweet they'd probably do well with some yogurt or cream and the addition of more fruit. I can't wait to eat this for breakfast!