I haven't done any blogs for a while, I thought I couldn't upload photos. Google told me I didn't have anymore space! Then, this morning I found out I got plenty! So, I'm now back to blogging again! To be honest, I missed writing, it doesn't mean I don't have friends to nutter about, I do talk on face to face basis IF there's not many people around...
How did I found out??? O.k, I'm Japanese, but I'm not a techno(not dance music!) person, I even don't understand fully how to used my laptop! My friend Russel, IS a techno person, we had early morning meeting in the town with coffee and pancake breakfast. I had lots of question as usual, how to set up websites, resizing photos, etc... This morning lesson was resizing photos on mac. It was good learning, I feel good when i lean something new and actually understood it. Feels I achieved something. We spend 2hours in weather spoon pub in Bury St Edmunds town center. I wish small independent cafes here serve good decaf coffee, good breakfast(and healthy), good Wi-Fi, lovely atmosphere and comfy chairs and sofas, OH, more importantly fabulous home made CAKES with good price, I will defo be there all the time, I'm sure so as my friends. (Unfortunately, I still haven't found my ideal cafe yet...) ANYWAY, that was how I found out I had plenty space. We went through web albums as well as iphotos on my mac... at the same time that's how much dumb I am when it comes this sort of thing.
My breakfast...our breakfast was "pancake with maple syrup" with americano. Initially I ordered decaf, but they didn't have it. So I had regular coffee instead. I couldn't finish all of it, then I had caffeine rush( and sugar from pancake and maple syrup), I felt myself starting to get hyper! ☹☹☹
When I have my breakfast at home I usually have smoothies.
Sylvia gave me huge bag of organic oat groats. She said she was sprouting them for her breakfast as cereal. I had a suspicious mind. Sprouting oat grouts???? My question was: "Are they really sprout?" Anyway I accepted her offer and took them home. Of course, when I got back, I tried to sprout them. Waited for 2 days, 3 days, 4days.... nothing. I asked Marcus why they hadn't sprouted. He did asked me though, he knew they weren't guanna sprout. I thought because they were slightly out of date. But that wasn't the reason. We searched on web, AND found out once heat treated, they don't sprout. I tried to do with rice, they didn't sprout either. Every time I read raw books, they never mentioned the most of grains were heat treated for shelf life and prevent from going off etc. I must say, although rice don't sprout (unless non heat treated, from specialist wholesalers/online shop), soak a few days(not red rice, they are too hard. wild black rice has nice texture after even 1day soaking), mix with some salady stuffs with hummus make lovely healthy dinner.
So, go back to the oat groats, what I do is now that soak them overnight, blitz with spring water to make past. Add more water, top white liquid is oat milk. Taste lovely. Much nicer than packs. Then, I add my own protein powder mix, fruits and blitz again. If you have a bitamix, it'll make fab smoothies. I don't have it, so l use hand blender. Still, it makes lovely thick smoothies and fills me up. It usually last till lunch time. I sometimes soak and blitz lots and leave some for next day. Day soaked oat milk gets smooth paste and makes even nicer smoothie. Of course, have it as it is with fruits or add some cereals use it like "yogurt"!
"Oats and banana smoothie with dates"
Soaking oat groats and a few almonds.....
I quite often make naughty smoothies in the morning which is banana and date. This has lot of sugar(natural) contents, If I have it, I don't have anymore bananas that day. Dates??? I do have a few more after my dinner, I love them! Well, I cut down on my cake intake, I'm allowed! ☺☺☺
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