Catching up-- breakfast posts

Since we've been sick I've been a little behind. I will post several recipes today. If you check back to the "Eating healthy: One step at a time" post, you will find that i've linked a lot of the recipes so you can click directly on them and be taken to the recipe.

Maple bananas

Ingredients:

4 sliced bananas

1 T butter (melted)

2 T maple syrup (melted)

1 tsp lemon juice

1/2 tsp cinnamon

Preheat oven to 400. In an 8x8 pan, add the butter, syrup, lemon juice and cinnamon. Toss the sliced bananas in the mixture. Bake 20-25 min or until golden brown. Serve with play yogurt!

Sweet Potato muffins

Ingredients:

1 C spelt flour

1 C rolled oats

1/3 C Rapadura

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

2 large eggs (whisked)

1 C sweet potato puree (pumpkin would be good too)

1/2 C raw milk

1/4 C coconut oil (melted)

1 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 350. Stir together dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, combine wet ingredients and whisk until well combined. Slowly combine wet ingredients with dry ingredients and stir just until incorporated. Spoon the batter into muffin cups. Bake about 20 min, or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Greek frittata

Ingredients:

2 C baby spinach, washed

salt/pepper to taste

6 large eggs

4 large egg whites

1 C+1C feta cheese crumbles

2 tsp chopped, fresh oregano

1/2 C chopped onions

6 small potatoes, cooked and sliced

Olive oil

1. Heat about 1 T olive oil in a skillet. Add spinach and season with salt/pepper. Toss and cook just until wilted. Remove from heat and set aside.

2. Sautee onions until translucent, and then mix together with spinach. Set aside

3. Spray the bottom of 10" skillet with non-stick spray and layer the potatoes on the bottom. (make sure to use a skillet that is safe to be put under the broiler)

4. Mix egg, 1 C of the cheese, oregano, salt/pepper to taste.

5. Spread the spinach/onion mixture over the potatoes, and then pour the egg mixture over everything (do not stir)

6. Cook on low heat until eggs are set (about 15-20 min)

7. Top the entire frittata with the remaining feta cheese and put under the broiler (on low) until everything is golden brown.