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Recipe: Yellow Pea Dal

Green tea on the side. Entirely insufficient after a 2500m swim. Was ravenous by the time lunch came around.

It's been months since I've had Bircher Muesli. I went off apples for a while after an unfortunate stomach bug. But the apples are back and so is one of my favourite breakfasts.

I made this Bircher as follows:

1. Soaked the following in enough water to cover overnight: 30g jumbo oats, 8g dried raisins and cherries, 5g flaxseed
2. In the morning: mixed the above with 1/2 grated apple, a squeeze of lemon juice, a pinch each of salt and cinnamon
3. Topped with natural yogurt, sliced bananas and - the best part - toasted pecans

To me this is a perfect and sustaining way to start the day. 

Recipe: Bircher Muesli

Today's impromptu muesli:

• 25g oats
• 5g wheat bran
• 3g sunflower seeds
• 4g almonds
• 5g raisins
• 50g milk
• 50g natural yogurt
• 1/2 banana
• ~10 grapes

Are these measurements rediculous or what? 

It's cleaning lady day. She comes at 9am. So I decided to spend the morning at the gym and doing my grocery shopping. Hence: the packed breakfast. This pic looks kind of sad, but it wasn't so bad. My gym has a good-for-a-gym cafe with lots of couches and tea served in real glass mugs and free wifi. So, I packed along some wholemeal toast with almond butter and a banana. This was about enough food to really get my fires stoked - I was starvin' marvin' the rest of the morning. Good food, but insufficient. 

The odd bit of Marmite and a cuppa Darjeeling tea on the side.

An apt start to Farmhouse Breakfast Week.

The fruit: banana and pear. White tea to drink.