Breakfast On The Deck, Courtesy Of Our Hens

 Fresh eggs, a little cream, some butter in the pan.

 Salt, pepper, a bit of parsley

 A little sprinkling of cheddar cheese

We took advantage of a beautiful morning to sit together for breakfast - me with my unsweetened iced tea and he with his coffee, half and half, no sugar.

Happy Weekend everyone!

Breakfast And A Bookstore

Tim and I are headed out to breakfast in a few minutes at our favorite place!  It's cold here today, so we are bundled up, but the sun is shining!

Later, we girls, including Kayleigh, are headed to a used bookstore in York that is closing and selling all its books for .25 cents each!  

Not that we need more books....said NO book lover EVER!

I'll let you know what we find!

Books from my own shelves!

Pancakes

This morning I made pancakes for breakfast.  I don't always cook breakfast and usually pancakes are a Sunday evening meal, but a friend gave us this terrific mix for Blueberry Pancakes by Christina Maser. 

 The kids loved them.  (Tim was at work)  I can't eat them since I am doing the Trim Healthy Mama eating plan, so I made myself on plan pancakes.

They are really yummy too.  

Here is the recipe - 

1 cup oatmeal

1 cup egg whites

1 cup cottage cheese

1 teaspoons baking powder

dash vanilla

2-3 tsp sweetener

This makes about 6 pancakes.  I can eat three of them and this allows me to have 3 in my fridge for another meal during the week.

Saturday Breakfast

I was up first this morning and had a bit of quiet.

I decided to make breakfast for myself, which always translates to cooking extra, because as soon as I start someone else shows up in the kitchen ready to eat!

 Beautiful, fresh eggs.  Our chickens are giving us these lovely beauties everyday.

 Lovely, orangey yolks.  

Yummy, crusty artisan bread.

With real butter of course.

Delicious and just right on a snowy morning.

What A Wonderful Way To Start A Day

Up early today for a special reason, though I am posting this late in the day.  I had an invitation to have breakfast over at Hospitality Lane.

 Diane from Tomato Soup Cake blog and her daughter Millen and friend Diana and her wee daughter had come to our area to see the Wiggles live!  

 They came to church yesterday and then with great joie de vivre, they came along with us to watch Becky's mom Ruth, my daughter Emma, my niece Shelly and our friend Joseph jump out of an airplane!  Poor things we dragged them all over the county!  It was a lovely day, and they all had a great jump!  It was fun to visit and share together while we were waiting for the jumpers.

This morning before they left we all had breakfast together.  Chelsea took this fun photo of Millen, Diane, myself and Becky.  Thank you, Becky, for using your grandmother's china and for the lovely food.  It was so special.

Then home to reality.  School with the kids, peaches to can, lunch to make including some bread.  

Diane, thank you for your cheerful self!  It was so fun to see you again.  Let's do it again next year, okay?