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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So, I made these last night, and followed the recipe to the tee, and while they came out of the oven as super delicious heaven rounds, they were like full on muffins. The batter made 8 and could have done more.
I’d suggest if your muffin cups are getting at all full, make it into 12 ’rounds’, and not 8 muffins, unless of course you’re all about the muffins.
I ate 2 last night. And 3 this morning. I’m not ashamed. They were heavenly. Thanks Juli 🙂
Also, you’re better at CrossFit then probs 90-95% of the rest of us. Winner winner chicken dinner. Don’t complain woman 🙂 Enjoy you’re amazingness.
Excellent!!!! I am eating them right now! My husband and 2 kids also loved them. Thank you for another great breakfast idea! I made instructions exactly and it made 12 rounds. I love how I could make the rounds the night before and then french toast them up on the morning. It make breakfast a snap!
I’m making these immediately! Well, not immediately because there’s no way to do so at my desk. But when I get home, I’m taking everything out and putting it on my counter next to my food processor so it’ll just be staring at me when I get up tomorrow. I’ll show you, you amazing paleo deliciousness in my mouth breakfast, you! Thank you for yet another wonderful paleo recipe!
Those look yummy! I’ll have to give them a try after Whole30! 🙂
Why didn’t I buy pumpkin at the grocery store yesterday?! And I agree with everyone, you are an amazing athlete, even if you aren’t where you were a year ago. You seem so much happier this year and balanced. Keep finding your balanace and thanks for churning out so many awesome recipes!
amazing! you’re a genius!
OMG these look delicious! Can’t wait to bake and try them!
I’m nervous about the Open, this is my very first year that I signed up for it, and I’m already self-conscious of my slug-like speed…..
My philosophy about crossfit is this: I go to the box and work my ass off to be better for me only- I don’t have a damn thing to prove to anyone else. As long as I’m giving my best effort, it doesn’t matter if I’m first, last, or somewhere in between.
With that being said, I also want to let you know that you are my crossfit/paleo inspiration. So keep doing what you makes you happy!
I get you on the CrossFit thing. I’ve been doing it for over 3 1/2 years now and was kicking ass last year. Then I hurt myself and took two months off (and became really depressed and then got over it- all unrelated to the gym) and now I can barely talk myself into going to work out! I skipped Tuesday. I’m skipping today (duh, I didn’t register for the Open because I don’t want to do the WODs! I’m not going in to do it and have it count for nothing!) so I can go hiking and enjoy the weather instead. You can’t make the gym #1 all the time. I’m seeing somebody now and want to have time to see HIM. I want to have time to see my friends when I’m not at work or doing school stuff. Spending 3-4 hours a day at the gym wasn’t allowing me any time to have a life when I spent 36-48 hours a week working, 10 hours a week on school stuff, and I was spending 10+ hours a week cooking all Paleo food. What kind of life is that?!?!?!?!?! Glad you are in a happy place, even if you’re not setting new PRs! Everybody needs to take a step back from CrossFit sometimes and see life outside of that.
Ok…when everyone says “coconut flour” I can not find it. I found something I think is coconut flour that Bobs Red Mill makes…but it doesnt say that on the bag. Its just really really fine
i get mine at tropicaltraditions.com