I've finally fixed my internet -- and found an awesome recipe for Breakfast!

So, it's been (yet again) a little while but my internet problems have now been fixed! Huzzuh!

In the meantime, I have been endeavouring to find a breakfast meal that involves as little processed carbs as possible (toast, porridge etc), but still leaves me full.

The idea of having just eggs does not appeal: eggs belong on top of something, not just floating about the plate by themselves.

After a bit of google-ing, I came across a few variations of this recipe. I am not normally a fan of pumpkin, or sweet potato, but it has been growing on me the last year or so. At least to the point where my first reaction to it isn't 'Hell No!'

The great thing with this recipe is, once you've cooked the patties, you can wrap them in clingfilm, and keep them in the fridge to take to work (if you're like me & eat your breakfast in the office). That said, the chopped up mix will last a while in the fridge, and actually frying up the pattie is pretty quick. 

Don't worry if you can't get quinoa. I only through it in to help bind everything together, but the mix can hold up without it.

Anth's Breakfast Patties

1 half of a butternut pumpkin,

1 sweet potato,
2 cloves garlic
6 baby tomatoes,

olive oil

3 tablepsoons cooked quinoa

Preheat oven to 180'C.

Cut the pumpkin into large chunks, removing the skin. Peel the sweet potato & also cut into chunks. Halve the baby tomatoes, and crush the garlic cloves the the flat side of your knife.

Drizzle the veg w/ olive oil, season w/ salt & pepper to taste, and pop into the oven. Roast until veg is soft enough to insert a knife in easily, without being mushy. Around 35 mins or so.

Remove from oven & cool.

When cool enough to handle, dice the veg, and mix together w/ 3 tablespoons of the cooked quinoa (if using).

Mix everything together with your hands. You can now put the mix in the fridge, to be used as & when you need it, or you can cook up some patties now, for eating, or for later use (at work etc).

Take 2 table spoons of the mix, and form into a pattie. It will be pretty sticky!

Heat a little olive oil in a pan over medium heat, and pop in the pattie. Don't be alarmed if the pattie falls apart a bit, I just used a spatula to push it all back together again.

Cook over medium heat for 5 mins, then flip over & cook the other side.

To serve I topped w/ half an avocado, and a couple of poached eggs. Yummy!