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Current Breakfast Obsession: Kinda Fancy Almond Butter Toast

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Yeah, wasn’t kidding about writing a post on how to make TOAST.  Because you totally need directions for the simplest of food procedures, right?

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Here’s the thing.  The arrival of this current breakfast obsession has a two part catalyst.  Part 1: The eating of bread in France.  Like real bread, cut from a baguette that was recently baked and sliced and doesn’t contain things like “dough conditioner” and whatever else is in the usual list of sandwich bread ingredients here in the U.S. of A.  Part 2: My love of “artisanal toast” (did I really just say that?) at my favoritest coffee shop.

And the result of these catalysts is also two-part.  Part 1: Me buying all of our bread from the actual Whole Foods bakery, where, GET THIS, they have loaves of freshly baked bread that have something like FOUR ingredients (that I’ve actually heard of) and are SO CHEAP.  Okay, sorry for all the capital letters, but I am endlessly excited about buying bread I can feel good about for TWO DOLLARS.  I know, you probably didn’t even know you could buy something so cheap at Whole Foods.  Part 2: Me realizing I could make my own damn “artisanal bread” at home with just a good slice of bread (I’m partial to Ciabatta), fresh ground almond butter, some Colorado honey and a pinch of flaked sea salt.  Bam!

I know, it sounds so simple, but it’s so good!  I mean, I’m still a slave to coffee shop toast because they take it up a notch and use lavender honey, that I cannot for the life of me find online or in any store, but this at-home version is the next best thing.  So please, pick yourself up some good bread (the bigger the slice, the better!), toast it to golden-brown perfection, slather it with your favorite almond butter, drizzle it with some honey and go ahead, flake some sea salt on top.  Just remember that sea salt flakes are not sprinkles, so don’t go crazy.  Trust me, salty toast is not good.

Current Breakfast Obsession: Oatmeal with Cacao Nibs & Figs

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So when I’m not eating this egg scramble, it’s because I’m equally obsessed with another breakfast recipe from the Food Lover’s Cleanse — Oatmeal with Cacao Nibs & Figs.  <– Just totally typed “Nibs & Fibs,” which is so much funnier.

If you’ve never had figs, they’re kinda creepy.  True Story: When we were in Barcelona, Joey ordered a duck dish that had figs (which he’d never had before) in it and he was mortified when his plate came out and he thought the figs were raw duck parts.  And now that I’ve told that story, don’t you totally feel hungry?  Honestly though, fresh figs do kind of look like some kind of alien or maybe something you’d see in a biology textbook, but fear not.  Dried figs are much less creepy than their fresh counterpart and this breakfast recipe luckily uses the dried variety, which are sticky sweet and sort of date-like, except they’re seedy, for you texture-lovers out there.

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Though you could use whatever oats (or grain) you want, the recipe calls for steel cut oats, so I make a bigger batch over the weekend then all you have to do come weekday morning is heat some up on the stove with a little bit of water to thin it back out.  Then you add some chopped figs, some cacao nibs — which aren’t cheap, so you better believe I’m getting my money’s worth by using up every last nib — and serve it on up.  The recipe doesn’t call for it, but I add some almond butter on top because why not?  And also because I’m going through an almond butter phase and want to put it on everything.

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What is your current breakfast obsession?