Quick Breakfast Tip

If you've ever been too busy to wash your dishes, and your kitchen is nearly past the point of no return, I suggest booking your mother/maternal figure a ticket to come stay with you. No, not to clean the mess for you, but to scare you straight with her impending arrival. Your mother is a dear woman, a sensitive sentient being whose heart would be crushed to know that her child is eating meat and potatoes with a serrated knife and melting plastic forkware in her attempts to reheat take-out without a proper utensil. But before you get up the courage to attack the rank pile of dishware with zeal and fervor - armed with a box of stainless steal pads, a stack of old beloved CDs and a squirt bottle of organic solvents - you'll have to eat something for fortitude.

If you do eat, if you are still someone who consumes foods orally in non-tablet-or-liquid-form, especially if you love the lost art of mastication, particularly if you are someone who buys bags of things from the health food store you never use, I suggest the following recipe:

Pandora's Seedy Cereal

1 1/2 c. unsweetened organic cow or goat yogurt
1 tbsp. raw chia seeds
2 tbsp. raw organic shelled hemp seeds
1 tbsp. raw organic flaxseed or flaxmeal
1 tbsp. organic maple syrup
1 organic banana sliced



optional:
1 tbsp. raw organic sesame seeds
1 tbsp. wild-crafted spirulina from Maine or the southern Hemisphere
1 tbsp. raw pumpkin seeds

And there you have it. Voila! Delicious, makes-you-feel-good breakfast for a hard day's night of cleaning.


The domestic goddess artwork above is by Edith Vonnegut, who asked to paint me when she gets back from Mexico. My reply? "Yes! Take me!" Of course, I meant take my essence and do with it what you will.