27 Jan The Breakfast Experiment

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And we start at the beginning: breakfast. I have yet to find the perfect breakfast and so far the month of January has been dedicated to that search

The healthy breakfast was where it all began, me being on a post-Xmas detox. On a cold, damp, grey Monday morning I was positively dreading eating the above fruit salad. I was surprised at how delicious and moreish it actually was. I prepared it the day before, cutting up kiwis, bananas, pears, nectarines and apples, and adding tinned mandarin and grapefruit segments. I squeezed and little bit of lemon over it so that the apples would not go brown over night. I made enough to last for 3 days for both me and Jamie (my boy who eats huge amounts of everything). I served it with bio yoghurt and honey and sprinkled with black sesame seeds that I bought in the Japanese Centre in Piccadilly Circus. My mouth is watering now I am just writing about it so it was a definite success: 8/10 (points taken off for being neither warm nor seasonal)

Then came the experimental breakfast. I had lots of brown rice and decided to make some kind of a rice pudding-type dish. I cooked it with milk and single cream, and added honey, cinamon, raisins, black sesame seeds and almonds to the mix – all the things I love – and chilled it overnight. The next morning I heated it up with some milk – it was revolting and I would not recommend it to anyone – but have included the recipe in case someone has a pressing desire to try this concoction: 1/10 (the point being given because I’m sure it’s not as horrible as some things out there)
The boring breakfast was next, cos sometimes you just want some toast and a cup of tea. I won’t bore anyone with the details of my toast making, all I’ll say is it has been a fallback breakfast for me all month  so it would be sad not to give it any mention here: 7/10

And that brings me to my current favourite – the warm-your-cockles-porridge-breakfast. It may not look like much but that was the most delicious little bowl of food I’ve had in a long time. It’s very quick and easy too – I just warmed a large handful of oats in a bowl-full of milk (I like it to be very runny) with some chopped banana, a pinch of sea salt, a tablespoon of honey and some mixed spice. Don’t leave it on its own for too long or it’ll get gloopy – you have time to slather some cream on but not to have a shower. Once it’s hot through, it’s ready: 9.5/10 (I have to leave hope of there being something a bit better out there otherwise life would not be worth living)
There was also the elusive breakfast I had this morning… last night when I was coming back drunkenly from a girls’ night out at the Alpine Lodge (fab by the way) I bought a tomato in a Turkish shop with this amazing idea of what I was going to have for breakfast this morning. The tomato went missing in the night and I spent 10 minutes looking for it this morning. I ended up miserably eating toast: 3/10 (Points for the great idea, the exercise and the toast) I have since learned that Jamie had eaten the tomato as a midnight snack