For a very important date!
Thanks to my lovely mother in law, our clocks are now set to the right time this morning!
Eric and I had a leisurely breakfast this morning and then we received her time-change reminder email around 11:30am. Who knows how long we would have gone had she not emailed us! lol.
Now, despite our lazy morning, I feel like I am running behind and I need to catch up! I sure love Springing Forward, but I do not like missing an hour out of the day…
Our weather continues to be very Spring like…
However, the weather is supposed to be warm and sunny all week, and just as it gets cool again we will be on a plane for FL! :)
Some of you asked if we are taking Sketchie on our trip with us…LOL…sadly, no! My in laws are coming to stay at our house while we are away to cat sit for us. He loves the in laws (I think more than us!) so he will have a grand old time I’m sure!
Let’s rewind to yesterday’s shopping trip at the outlet mall…
Do you ever have high hopes for a shopping trip and you don’t find ONE thing!? That was me yesterday!
Fun things about shopping:
- Spending time with girlfriends
- Summer clothes
- Starbucks or Mall juices when you are dying of thirst
- Sales
Not so fun things about shopping:
- Trying on a million things and not finding anything
- Huge crowds, people running into you
- Not finding a parking spot
- Too loud music in the stores
Krissy and I went into Guess and we said to ourselves…I think we are getting OLD because this music is just way too loud! It was really bad music too.
It was still pouring rain when we left and made for another 1 hour + drive home.
This morning’s breakfast however, was very tropical! I needed something to brighten the morning…
Close your eyes and picture a tropical beach. Picture the smell of coconut and lemon and the richness of coconut butter all melting together…
I recently met a wonderful lady named Ricki Heller from Diet, Dessert, n Dogs. Ricki is the former owner of a Toronto Bakery called Bake It Healthy and she is also the author of this wonderful cookbook:
It is called Sweet Freedom and it is fabulous. It features breakfast recipes, baking tips and tricks, cookies, bar, squares, cakes, cupcakes, frostings, cheesecakes, and raw and no baked treats! All baked with healthy ingredients of course.
The recipes in this book are very unique and you can tell that she put so much time and effort into every page. I was blown away by the creativity of Ricki’s recipes.
For example: ‘Sweet Potato and Chocolate Chip Muffins’, ‘Cinnamon Coffee Toffee Bars’, ‘Plum Topped Cornmeal Cake’, ‘Twice Spiced Ginger Biscuits’, and ‘Chai Cheesecake’. You will not find these recipes anywhere else. The recipes take more time than I am used to, but the results are definitely worth it.
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15 min
25 min
40 min
6 large muffins
Ingredients
- DRY:
- 3/4 cup ground oats (I just put oats in the blender for a minute)
- 2/3 cup whole spelt flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 3/4 tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 tsp. sea salt
- 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- WET:
- 1/3 cup softened coconut butter (OR 1/3 cup pureed avocado)
- 1/2 cup agave nectar (or maple syrup, but you might need 2/3 cup)
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice (1 lemon)
- 2 tsp. lemon zest
- 1/4 cup almond milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Grease 6 muffin tins.
- Mix the dry ingredients together in a medium sized bowl.
- Mix the wet ingredients into a small bowl and pour into dry.
- Stir well and spoon into muffin tins.
- Bake for 20 – 25 minutes.
- Cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
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These were really tropical tasting. Lemon and coconut muffins…who knew?!
With some vegan margarine…
So good! I had two for breakfast and didn’t think I would be full, but I am actually not hungry at all. Must be those filling coconut oils!
Plans for today include:
- Workout (I am going to try HITT running today!)
- Helping Eric with renos in the scary basement
- Meeting a girlfriend for tea
- Cleaning bathrooms
- Packing for trip/digging out summer clothes
A huge congrats to Caitlin for rocking the triathlon this morning!
Enjoy your Sunday :)
Haha, I agree that sometimes the music is too darn loud at stores!! And I also am sick of going to bars and staying out after 10 or 11pm… did I mention that I’m only 26?!?! :)
In Saskatchewan we don’t do the day light savings thing :-) Weird hey!
My sister lives in Regina and says you are always on daylight savings time you just don’t bother with the time changing in the fall.
I hate losing that hour! The muffins look pretty yummy though :-)
I forgot about the time change this morning too, and I looked at my cell phone and thought “what? how did I sleep until 10?” and had a complete panic attack.
Try the carrot snack cake in that book! It’s one of my favorites.
Muffins for breakfast are such a good treat…especially if there is COCONUT involved!
I’ve recently discovered that I am not at all a long-distance runner…just not my thing! But I *love* HIIT running. I love giving it my all for those 30-60 seconds – pushing my body to that limit feels like such an accomplishment! Let us know what you thought of it =)
Angela,
Thanks so much for this amazing review of the book! I am so glad you liked the muffins :D
Hope to make it to the next meetup so I can bring along some baked treats for you(I just know you’d love the Ultra Fudgy Brownies!)
xo Ricki
What a busy day! At least it will stay light out for longer–I always love spring forward day and all that extra daylight….
lucky girl! you get to go from warm spring weather to even warmer spring weather with BEACHES! i’m not the biggest fan of losing an hour of sleep, but i am thankful for an extra hour of sunlight! hope your run is good…run a couple yards for me and my gimp knee :)
It’s great weather here; not sure what part of fl you are going first. But, it was a cold winter here so flowers are just about to be major blooming. Have a good trip!
Those muffins sound great!!! Very summery :) And we can always use a little burst of summer in March!
Gosh those muffins look GREAT!! I love the idea of the oat ‘flour’ :)
I hate when planned shopping trips don’t result in big finds!
It never fails for me- if I have money to spend, I find nothing. If I am trying not to spend money that I don’t have in the first place, I find all kinds of goodies!!!
~Christie
Sometimes I am really glad that Arizona doesn’t change times! THose muffins look awesome. I’ve been reading Ricki’s blog forever and her recipes are always a hit!
that cook book looks amazing! I’ll have to check it out myself
Yum! I’ll check out that cookbook and her blog.
I’m in the market for a new blender (broke blender #2 a while ago, and was wondering which kind you use?
I need that book..that’s basically my life summed up in recipes and pictures.
Those muffins look good and like normal muffins, that’s important. :)
That hour really got away from me, too!! I want it back! haha
Those muffins look amazing!
Have a great night :)
Finding anything at the outlets is always so iffy for me. It seems like my size is always gone! Those muffins sound amazing–kind of like summer, which I’ve been dying for since December.