poll: breakfast

I had a terrible craving for oatmeal pancakes (prompted by a conversation I had recently with Lissa Allcock about all things maple), so decided to make some. I've only had oatmeal pancakes once, at a place called Mitzi's in Toronto...VERY yummy. The recipe I used came from The Breakfast Book by Diana Terry (1983, Doubleday). It uses yeast, which disconcerted me somewhat, but fortunately the rising period was only 30 minutes. They turned out very well, and I kept some warm in the oven for Jeff. Sadly, we only have artificial syrup in the apartment right now, yuk. I had some of Rikka's wonderful herbal tea, yum.

Which brings me to today's poll question:

Are you a breakfast person? What do you usually have for breakfast on a typical workday? Weekends? What's your favourite type of breakfast? Healthy or greasefest? Tea or coffee or juice?

Please Answer in Blatherchat (if the April chat board is closed, try May instead).

I tend to be hobbit-like on weekdays and have two breakfasts. The first is when I wake up (around 6:30 or 7 a.m.), usually cut up honeydew melon with low-fat yogurt glopped on top, and some water with a lemon slice or herbal tea. After I've worked a few hours, I'll have something else...like toast with cheese and honey, cereal (usually some of the batch that Jeff mixes up from Vector and Raisin Bran and keeps in a Tupperware container on the shelf) with milk, or an egg (over easy).

Jeff and I like going out for brunch on weekends, sometimes with friends and sometimes by ourselves. This is usually lunch for me, since he tends to wake up so much later than I do on weekends. My favourite type of breakfasts are buffets, with lots of choices and a minimum of grease.

On rare occasion, however, I'll get a craving for a greasefest...bacon, fried eggs, sausages, etc. I can practically HEAR my arteries hardening as I'm hoovering down this type of breakfast, but it's wonderfully satisfying to indulge every once in a while.

I haven't been a coffee drinker until recently, when I've done more of my novel-writing in coffeeshops, and have started drinking my coffee black. I'm not a morning coffee drinker, but like to have it mid-afternoon when I need a bit of a perk.

However, Jeff and I have recently made a pact with each other to try and cut down on caffeine, and drink more water instead. We'll see how that goes.

My running is going pretty well. I'm ramping up very slowly, but still getting a good workout in the process, am usually out for about 1-1.5 hrs. My favourite run is still along Harbourfront. Next goal: during my walk/run, to run a mile without stopping! I am still the slowest runner in the world. The trickiest thing has been to figure out what distance along my route constitutes a mile. I've found some pretty good information for beginning runners at About.com, and general running info at Runner's World (there's also a section on fitness walking, for those interested).

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Today's Blatherpics:

	I took this photo near Parki's a while back. Sort of a pathetic and funny at the same time, isn't it?
	Graffiti near One Trick Pony's office.