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Catch your morning adventure...Buttered toast and a nice cuppa!

Today I’ll open to the adventure that crosses my path and go with the flow (hopefully catch that morning star! :) Use your imagination.

I want to see your breakfast art so get creative with your breakfast tomorrow and tweet/send me a pic like this one! http://twitpic.com/4hubzw

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When I stumbled across Sheffield Honey to pick up a jar of their delights for my Thursday’s Brekkie Challenge: Honey Buttered Toast. I was very puzzled as to which type of Honey to have; Blossom, Heather or Soft Set? (I wasn’t sure what the three types really were)…..and asked for HELP!

For those who are curious too. Take a read and become ‘abit of a’ Honey Connoisseur.

Soft Set honey tends to be poly-floral being sourced from many types of flowers, allowed to crystalise (fine) and has a sweet honey flavour.

Heather honey is a mono-floral honey crop sourced from the heather moors in August, its taste is smooth and rich, and is highly aromatic!

Blossom honey is also poly-floral but is an early seasons honey, its runny and mild and great on cereal, toast and perfect for cooking.

Thanks for the help @SheffieldHoney

If anyone fancies trying out my Missie Cindz: Sheffield Honey Buttered Toast recipe, here’s the full recipe to download for your keeps – let me know what you think!

Oh by the way, Farmers’ markets are a great place to buy honey too, because you will typically be able to sample the different varieties. You can see what kinds you like and also taste the range of flavors, which can be quite distinctive. Am I right Honey!? ;)

Today is the last day to enter this competition as part of the Farmhouse Breakfast Week, which I’ve been supporting and endlessly tweeting about for most of this month (well, brekkie is the most important meal for me :). I hope you’ve been following my Missie Breakfast Challenge and are enjoying the foody pics too. Anyway, the basis of the competition was to come up with a new breakfast gizmo, so finally, here is my entry:

The ‘Missie Cindz’ Wake-up Light with Oven Alarm

Product Features

• The ‘Missie Cindz’ Wake-up Light with Oven Alarm gradually wakes you up to the smell of a freshly cooked cupcake
• The Wake-Up Light starts gradually brightening from 30 minutes before your set wake-up time
• The Wake-Up Light starts baking your cake mixture from 10 minutes before your set wake-up time
• At your set wake-up time – you smell freshly baked cake and will hear a bird singing, soft chimes or a friendly beep
• Choose your preferred light intensity
• Durable non-stick baking tray. Easy to clean and comes with a concise and illustrated Missie Cindz instructions book

Delicious Cupcakes Every Morning
The problem with breakfast is that people struggle to find the time for it, with this neat gadget you’ll have your cupcake baked in ‘perfect’ time for your morning get-up and go routine. All you need to do is the following; just before you sleep at night, insert a ‘Cupcake Pod Mixture’ into the Missie Cindz Wake-up Light with Oven Alarm; set your wake-up time (mine’s usually 7am) and Hey Presto!! – shut your eyes, fall asleep and just wait for that morning light and sweet aroma. I know what you”™re thinking, why aren”™t I an Inventor. Well it”™s a very innovative breakfast solution, that I’m sure, would get most of us out of bed for! What’s more than better than waking up to the fresh smell of a freshly baked cupcake? – forget the greasy bacon (I’m kind to the pigs – most of the time) – it’s all about sweet delights with me.

The lovely smell of fresh bread/cakes make people feel secure and well. The sweet aroma of freshly baked bread is irresistible. I know most of us buy bread from the supermarket, but we all still associate the smell of fresh bread with well-being and home-made. It’s an inherited association.

Start your day full of energy with the light and smell that wakes you naturally
This Wake-up Light with Oven Alarm wakes you up in a natural way, with light that increases gradually. From half an hour before your required wake-up time, the Missie Wake-Up Light emits light that gradually increases to the intensity you have selected, simulating the rising sun in your bedroom, thus gently preparing your body to wake up. Research proves that dawn simulation improves subjective measures of energy, mood, productivity, quality of sleep and quality of awakening (for the source, ask me :) From now on, waking up will be a pleasant and delicious experience. It makes use of a energy-saving lamp to wake you gently.

So, make the change today and choose the Missie Wake-Up Light with Oven Alarm to wake up naturally and as your Best Breakfast Gizmo Idea :)

Yay, Farmhouse Breakfast Week begins today…

A week about my favourite Meal of the Day! (what more could a Northern girl like me ask for? ;) Above is my Missie Cindz Breakfast Week Menu – please feel free to download this for your reference or to even cook along with me too? (I’ve managed to get my housemate to participate with me, and I assure you, he’s not a morning person!! so if he’s willing to make an effort, it’d be great if more of you would too – I’d be interested to know what you all did). I’m challenging myself to make an effort and to rustle up ‘cooked’ delights every morning for this eventful Week.

If any of you aren’t sure what this brekki-licious week is about, please have a read at one of my previous posts: It”™s Breakfast time again, hip hip hooray! – it’s rather filling and delicious to read :)

It’s Breakfast time again, hip hip hooray!
It”™s time we all started the day the ‘Full Way Up’ :) I find it rather sad for those who don’t find the time to have their (humble) Breakfast but then end up snacking ‘on the go’ or grabbing something from their office’s vending machine (please can someone let me know what a Mars bar’s got, that seems to win over a cheese and ham toastie?). Just before Christmas I stumbled across the fellas @breakfastweek on Twitter. I was immediately drawn to their colourful ‘engaging’ brekkie ideas and recipes. Their twelfth annual Farmhouse Breakfast Week is almost here (23-29th January) and is being rejuvenated for 2011 with a new theme/brand called “Shake Up Your Wake Up”.

Who else is taking part in the Breakfast Week Challenge?
I sure am! This means I can Eat Happy as part of my New Year’s resolution to save money (and calories too – kick starting a healthy New Year ). It”™s perfect because January is all about people rethinking their hectic schedules and starting the year with the best intentions in mind!

Mmm Toast!!
I’d like to challenge my Followers (especially those who would fall under the category as a ‘breakfast skipper’) to rethink their morning routines, and make time for the most important (often forgotten about) meal of the day. I was told by @breakfastweek as many as one in four consumers regularly skip breakfast, so I’m pretty keen to raise awareness of the ‘colourful’ benefits that can be gained by making that little bit extra time for the humble brekkie.

Now, this week’s challenge for me was for breakfast dishes, and some lovely ones came in. The two that leapt out at me, though, were these:

“Catherine’s Choice spiced tomato relish on a bagel with bacon and sliced fresh tomatoes” by @CatherinesChce – sounds a perfect start to the day! and this one:
“Fried slices of chicken, onions, courgettes and chili, stir-fried together and mixed with eggs.” by @beamoogaloo – Mmm Yum! :)

Currently, I’m putting together my Breakfast Foodie Menu Plan for the week – and will share this with you soon. I’m figuring out what I will need and how much of it too.

This Challenge is going to be Eggtastic Challenge (sorry for the cheesy pun :) and if I’m willing to get outta bed to ‘Shake Up My Wake Up’, I hope many others of you will do too. Please keep spreading the word and hounding your friends for Breakfast recipes for me (@ me to let me know what you’re doing too, I want a nosy!!). Remember, your breakfast doesn’t have to be anything ‘fancy’, a piece of buttered toast with marmalade and a cuppa tea is thumbs up! :)