Lazy Sunday Much?

LAZY is right. I woke up close to 11 -- especially unusual because I was home by 2am, which isn’t all that bad.  Maybe my run caught up with me.  I woke up feeling not so hot from having eaten 2 cups of cooked vegetables at 2am when I got home the night before (food hangover), but I finally got myself out of bed to make breakfast and coffee.  Coffee is usually a powerful enough force to get me moving.

It being a dreary Sunday, and my having no plans for the day, I took the opportunity to experiment a little with my oats.  Weekend breakfasts at home in Larchmont mean pancakes, but I'm usually not interested in doing that much work.  Ok, fine, mostly I don't do it because it requires 1/2 an egg to make 1 serving of pancakes, which just drives me crazy.  And everything tastes better when my parents make it! :)

So, I whipped up a sample of "The Gilbert", named for my dad, who is a big fan of this flavor combo: peanut butter and bacon.  I have been a skeptic all my life, but I had turkey bacon in the house, so I threw all caution to the wind and decided to try out his recipe.  I present to you: PB AND BACON OATS.

I made a super small portion of this and set aside the rest in case my experiment was a total disaster.  Results: 1 point for Dad.  PB and bacon DO taste good together!  I can only imagine how much better it is with real bacon.  I am going to have to deduct 1 point from team Oats.  Not that it was bad, but having the PB/bacon combo on top of oats did nothing for it.  I would like to try this again with crispier bacon chopped into smaller pieces before being placed on top of the oatmeal.  It was too difficult to spoon-chop.

Overall a fun experiment.  As you can see, I am not afraid of unorthodox flavor profiles.  If you can dream it, I will eat it.

Later on I had a wonderfully crisp and fresh apple from the farmers market -- yay for autumn in NY!  I always forget how amazing a cold, farm fresh apple is. I want to go to the Apple Festival in Ithaca. :(

Sunday night I went home for Yom Kippur and my family's modified version of the fast... we were eating dinner until like 8 and then dessert at 9... oopsy.  I will be eating Sunday's leftovers for dinner tonight, so you can see it all then!