Well good morning sunshine! So nice to see you.
There is construction in my neighborhood and my car alarm keeps chirping as the trucks roll by. Now that’s one badass alarm system. Or annoying one, depends how you look at it.
I did exactly what I wanted to do this weekend. I drank. I ate good food. I worked out. And I slept. Pretty damn good weekend. I intended to drink vodka sodas and bloody marys, eat some delicious food, and I absolutely did both of those things. A bit too much of both. The drinking only occurred one of the nights…and day. But people think it’s weird when you order a bloody mary at night, I would know. So I choked back some vodka shots with Laura and before I knew it, I was ready to go home. Shots really catch up to me in my old age of 24. It’s weird. In college, I would take millions of shots before I left for the bars, then just dance on the bar the entire night. But now that I’m an adult and have to have adult conversations while standing on two feet, I can actually feel the alcohol making me sway in all directions. When you’re dancing to Beyonce, it’s pretty easy to not understand how drunk you are. But when you’re in a bar that has quiet music, calm humans, it’s pretty easy to figure out you’re too drunk. Long story short, it was an early night. Reason #12: why I suck as a girlfriend. I’m working on it.
Funny how different last year was compared to this year. Last year around this time, the CrossFit Open was starting and I was freaking out. I was doing a balls ton of workouts, heavy workouts, and crying regularly as I attempted to get better at muscle ups. Funny how things change….
Ugh. I’m signed up for the CrossFit Open. I don’t want to be, I really don’t. But I want to support CrossFit Broadway and get points for the team. But I DO NOT want yet another thing telling me how much I suck at CrossFit nowadays. I already know. I see it daily on the board, I feel it daily in my workouts, and I can tell with the looks I get. Thankfully, I’ve finally gotten past feeling like I’m letting people down. I’m finally at a happy place again. I’m not constantly stressing out about what I can’t eat or drink, or stressing about getting multiple workouts in, or stressing about getting stronger. Now I have the time to think about other stuff. Like an outfit I want to wear. Or the next recipe I want to try to create for my second cookbook.
Was anyone else as confused as I was while watching ‘Tron’? I literally didn’t know what was happening the entire time. So.Many.Neon.Lines.
Pumpkin Espresso French Toast Rounds
- Yield: 3-4 1x
Ingredients
- 1 banana, peeled
- ⅓ cup pumpkin puree
- ½ cup sunflower seed butter (or other nut butter)
- ¼ cup coconut oil, melted
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
- 3 tablespoons coconut flour
- 2 teaspoons instant coffee (I used coffee grounds)
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- pinch of salt
For the french toast
- 1 egg
- ½ cup canned coconut milk
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- pinch of cinnamon
- couple tablespoons coconut oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Place banana, pumpkin puree, sunflower seed butter, coconut oil, honey, vanilla extract, and eggs in a food processor or blender and puree until smooth.
- Then add the coconut flour, instant coffee, cinnamon, baking soda and powder, and pinch of salt. Puree once more until completely combine.
- Scoop or pour ingredients evenly into 6-8 lined muffin tins* (I used silicone liners, but you could also use paper liners).
- Place in oven to cook for 20-23 minutes or until completely cooked through.
- Once muffins are done cooking, either eat them as muffins OR let them cool to use as french toast rounds.
- When muffins have cooled, cut each muffin in half, widthwise.
- Mix together french toast ingredients.
- Heat up a large skillet over medium-high heat, add a bit of coconut oil to the pan and then drench each french toast round in the french toast ingredients on both sides.
- Then place directly into the hot pan and cook on both sides for 2-3 minutes.
- Once french toast rounds have cooked on both sides, top with sliced bananas and delicious maple syrup. OMG.
Notes
I used muffins tins because they are smaller and cook through a little better than a bread pan, BUT you could also use a bread pan as well. Cooking times may be changed because of that.
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This is one I MUST TRY. I think I’ll save it for a weekend morning. It feels like a Saturday or Sunday morning breakfast.
Who am I kidding?! I want it in my mouth 5 minutes ago, but I have no time to make it.
On another note.. If you feel like accepting advice from a totally random stranger, I think you need to take a step back and put CrossFit in its place. Your blog is wildly popular, you’re coming out with your SECOND cookbook, you’ve got (what sounds like) an awesome guy that you’re enjoying, you have killer friends who provide weekend shenanigans for you, and you get to coach and take part in the CrossFit community. I’m a die hard CrossFitter, but it’s not EVERYTHING. It’s one aspect of your life. Put that bitch in her place and go on living and loving your life. Sorry for cursing.. sort of.
Just made this tonight for dessert because it looked so good I couldn’t wait for breakfast! It was totally worth it! Thanks for posting
These look delicious!
Reading through your troubles with CrossFit remind me of my own that I’m currently struggling with. I moved from a good box where I was average to a new box where I was the best. I have a long term goal of competing in CrossFit at any level in any way so I started to tack on the extra workouts which lead me to get hurt. I tried to ignore it was getting worse. I had to keep CrossFitting because I was so attached to the idea of competing and I felt as though I had to keep being the best. I became obsessed with it. So I quit. I joined a globo-gym. In order to create “My CrossFit” (reference to your essay for ‘Again Faster’) I had to step away and define what it means to me. It’s hard but I know it’s right. There are more important things in life. Fight for your soul, not your abs. I’ll say a few prayers for you tonight girl. Keep fighting….. and making good food.
Oh my f’ing god. WHY HAVE I NEVER THOUGHT OF THIS?! Also, I’m 7 months pregnant and I literally cannot stop thinking about bloody marys. Bloody mary mix will not suffice.
Ok these sound yummy (looks a little like cow pies). Maybe I’ll have to make them this weekend:) Juli I love Sofia champs also. My friend brought me one to the hospital after I had my daughter. They are so cute. Also wanted to say that I just finished dinner and made the cheriso and pineapple hamburgers…..and OMG (heeeheee) it was delicious. My only issue is mine fell apart. Keep up making yourself happy and being healthy.
It’s funny for me to see you talking about being “bad at crossfit”… I really hope people aren’t actually giving you the disappointed looks you think thy are, because if that’s the case they are awful teammates!!
I am quite literally the weakest person at my crossfit, and I constantly think about how awesome I am whenever I complete something at crossfit because its all really hard, all of the time! So, if I can feel as good about myself as I do when I yet again have the longest time and lightest weights… You should definitely think of yourself as the superhero you are!
I’m happy that you have the time to think about recipes cause you’re seriously talented and I love everything I’ve made from your website. We can’t push ourselves in every direction at once or else nothing will go right, I’ve had to deal w/ priority reorganization too recently – and if you spent all your energy being stupidly awesome at CrossFit I wouldn’t get to make your recipes! 😛 Looking forward to being able to order your cookbook!!! (live in Canada so preorder is not recommended it says…)
Love it. Keep on being you. You are 24, and have found ways to use your talents to make you happy WHILE creating your own business (you). A business that actually helps others. Do you realize how amazing that is?? And why on Earth, Missy, would you ever let yourself feel guilty for investing in you, over something silly like workout times? Publishing one and already working on a second cookbook? At 24? Shut up. In fact, if you ever write complaining about how you’re bad at muscle ups again, I will fly to Denver and slap you. 😀 I’m so excited for you and what is to come for you! We need positive role models in this world!
I’m relating a lot to this post. I made paleo banana bread french toast this past weekend. I watched also Tron, and was also completely baffled by it, and slightly bummed out by the drab color scheme…
But also, I suck at CrossFit lately. Though I have a feeling your sucking at CrossFit probably isn’t so bad. I got laid laid up from shoulder surgery last November, and THEN got unexpectedly KNOCKED UP. I went from 16 strict pull-ups to 1, and from being a top contender in my gym, to gasping for air over 90 seconds of power cleans. Your attitude is definitely an inspiration 🙂
So, to sum it up, I feel your pain!
She lies, she’s still really awesome 😉
Also, I swear to the gods above, I am not a cyber stalker.
Hahaha! Thanks Stephanie! I believe you. My purple-haired avatar kinda sticks out like a sore thumb, doesn’t it?