my favorite breakfast now

This breakfast is comfort food to me.  I have southern roots and I used to love grits and cream of wheat.  This is reminiscent of both.  Ahead of time, I mix equal parts of buckwheat (medium cut), corn grits, and oat bran into a bowl and mix that up and store it in the fridge.

Then each morning I take out 1/4-1/3 cup depending on how hungry I am, add 1/4 cup soy or almond milk (unsweetened) and twice the amount of water as the cereal.  I also add 1 tsp of chia seeds and, occasionally, 1 tsp of maple syrup.  It's delicious without them also.   Note:  I just bought some almond milk and will probably start using that instead of soy milk since I use soy milk in my soy yogurt and want some variety.

 I stir everything up in my bowl, microwave for 2 minutes, stir again, and then go do something else for 10 or more minutes.  I usually make house-mate's smoothie and go get the paper and nibble on spinach since I use that in the smoothie.  Then I probably will add a little more water, microwave for another minute, add a little fruit if you want (1/2 banana, or 1/4 cup blueberries); let cool some, and then enjoy eating it.

Today I tried an experiment by trying to make waffles out of this.  It was a pretty hilarious disaster because I don't know how to use a waffle iron, but I think there is hope for this.  I will keep experimenting and report when I get something good.  I also tried adding a tsp of cocoa powder to this and it was very good too!

breakfast!

I have very simple tastes I think.  So this may not appeal to others as much as me but this was just what I like:  corn grits, buckwheat and fruit:

I used 1/8 cup corn grits, 1/8 cup buckwheat, added 3/4 cup water, cooked in the microwave for 2 minutes; stirred, let cool while I heated up my frozen fruit (fresh Wisconsin fruit from the farmer's market).   Cooked the cereal for another minute.  added the fruit; let stand for another 10 minutes or so to cool and cook a little more.    This is my favorite breakfast so far.   I ordered some oat bran and when that arrives I might try a mixture of all three, but it's hard to imagine I will like it more than this.  I've always loved grits.

buckwheat berry breakfast

This breakfast has staying power for me; and it tastes good too.

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup buckwheat groats, uncooked; note: substitute any favorite grain or pseudo-grain (e.g.,  oat groats, oats, steel-cut oats, quinoa, even brown or black rice)
• berries or another fruit, about 1/2 lb 
• few spoonfuls of homemade soy yogurt or 1 spoon of WholeSoy plain unsweetened soy yogurt (it's stronger than home-made);  this is optional
• ceylon cinnamon or other favorite spice
• small amount of sweetener if you feel you need it

I soaked the buckwheat groats overnight, rinsed them, add the cinnamon, and then microwaved in water for 1 minute or 2.  I let that cool while prepping everything else.  If you are using rice, you would have to cook that.  You could always cook a batch ahead of time, refrigerate and take out 1/2 cup for this meal.  I'd cook steel-cut oats and oat groats, but would prep regular oats like the buckwheat.   Add the cinnamon while cooking.

For the fruit, I used 1/2 lb of strawberries and 1/2 box of blackberries (3 oz).   I cut up the strawberries.

 Here's what mine looked like:

Stir and eat!   I enjoyed it.

Nutritional info:  Calories 300;  protein 11 g (12%),  fat 4 g (11%), carbs 63 g (77%).