breakfast, muffins and my love of pasta salad

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I'm bad when it comes to breakfast, too. I usually

have a glass of vanilla soy milk or juice first thing

when I get up and a granola bar or energy bar later in

the morning (my stomach doesn't like food right away).

I would love to have a sesame seed bagel and peanut

butter or cream cheese every day, but sesame seed

bagels are surprisingly hard to find where I live.

 

Don't be afraid of turning bread recipes into muffins,

or muffins into bread. I do it all the time, or even

at the same time (make a mini loaf and a tray of

muffins from the same recipe. You just have to be

mindful, of course, that muffins take less time to

cook and bread takes more time.

 

And finally, I don't know why, but my favorite early

summer meal is a good pasta salad. I made one last

night with kamut pasta (tastes sort of like whole

wheat, it's nutty, but it has like 10 grams of protein

and 6 grams of fiber in a 1/2 cup serving) and it

turned out really well. Even my husband, who doesn't

like " grainy things " enjoyed it.

 

There's no real recipe, but I took some cooked pasta

(spirals) and chopped fine two green onions, half a

cucumber, half a carrot, half a red pepper, then added

some olive tapenade (you could use olive slices, too,

I just like the way the tapenade kind of melts all

through the pasta), generous amounts of extra virgin

olive oil and red wine vinegar, salt and pepper, a

little italian seasoning and some parmasean cheese.

Yum!

 

Sarah

 

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