In search of a Christmas breakfast that you can prep in advance and feed a crowd? Consider simple baked eggs that taste and smell like pizza! To keep this dish festive, roasted tomatoes and sautéd kale serve as the main components to highlight the colors of the season. Don’t like either? Swap in spinach or swiss chard for kale and roasted peppers in place of tomatoes. The cheese in the baked eggs is also adaptable to taste preference and availability. I highly recommend using a combination of a sharp cheese, like cheddar or fontina, with a mild creamy cheese like mozzarella. Serve the eggs with a simple salad, berries, toast, and shiitake bacon and you’ve got a simple and delicious holiday breakfast!
Read moreturmeric poached egg, shiitake bacon, + kale bowl
Poached eggs over greens is no new concept. But turmeric poached eggs over seared kale with shiitake bacon? Now, that's exciting. This bowl is perfect anytime of day, yet I especially love to get in my greens first thing. Starting the day with a fortifying and deeply nutritious meal sets the bar for the rest of your days' eats.
Read morehow to meal prep: breakfast part 1
Meal prep is an essential tool for anyone looking to eat healthily and to save money while managing a busy lifestyle. It is a key component that I always stress when counseling clients. While juggling culinary school at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts, maintaining Crunchy Radish, and working on some exciting new projects, I have been leaning more and more on meal prep as my foundation for keeping healthy and well balanced. To help curate some upcoming posts on meal prep, I called on my very good friend, culinary producer at the Rachael Ray show, and all star meal prep-er, Jeanette Donnarumma, for her tips and recipes on meal prepping. First up, breakfast!
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The decision to eat animal protein is a personal choice. If you do, it is essential to be a conscious consumer - not only to think about where your protein is sourced, from a humane perspective, but also for health purposes. Selecting animal protein that has not been injected with hormones, antibiotics, or given feed rich with genetically modified organisms are all essential to consider in addition to the quality of the animal's life. Ultimately, what has entered into the animal's body will enter yours.
Read moremy favorite way to eat a breakfast taco
Breakfast is extremely important to us here at Crunchy Radish. I often find myself contemplating what I will have for brekky the night before. A nutritious breakfast provides an exponential amount of benefits including much needed fuel for the morning. Breakfast prevents overeating at lunch, helps avoid poor food choices out of hunger, improves mood, and assists with weight maintenance and weight loss. Still not a convert? Try out my favorite way to eat a breakfast taco loaded with fiber, complex carbohydrates, protein, and a hearty dose of greens.
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