On Tuesday evening I was mourning my empty Australian Licorice container – well the lid anyways…I’m not sure where the actual container got to…did I eat it??
I had rationed and savored every delicious bite, but like they say – all good things must come to an end, right? WRONG!
Thank Heavens for friends like Holly from The Healthy Everythingtarian – I came home from work last night to a care package from Ms. ‘Tarian herself! Inside said package: Aussie Licorice!!!!!
Two kinds! Ugh – can you even believe that? She also sent an awesome Halloween Cookie Cutter, which is too funny because I almost bought the exact same one last weekend! Sure glad I didn’t 
Plus she included a nice note which showed off some mad handwriting skillz 
THANKS HOLLY – you rock!!
Nice people make the world go round – know what I mean?
So I woke up starving this morning and was sure glad I had a Pear Breakfast Cookie waiting for me in the fridge
My breakfast cookie contained:
- 1 mashed banana
- Heaping 1/3 cup old fashioned oats
- 2 T skim milk
- 1 T almond butter
- dash of cinnamon
For a topper, I sliced up a sweet Bartlett Pear
Chewy, creamy, sweet & soooo satisfying.
A couple of people have asked me what the consistency of a breakfast cookie should be. It’s more of a cookie dough consistency, rather than a hand held cookie consistency…ie, you eat it with a spoon!
So I’m actually lucky that today’s lunch survived the night, because I was this close to crushing it last night – it’s leftover Baked Sweet Potato with Apple & Turkey Sausage!
I am…so jazzed…
FYI – I always choose Granny Smith apples to cook or bake with. They keep their shape really well, but also get gloriously tender and sweet.
This should be good to keep me going through the afternoon. We’ve got carbs + fiber (potato & apples) as well as protein and healthy amounts of fat (sausage.) Sweeeet.
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Well according to the results of last week’s poll – TQT shall go forth and prosper! Thanks for participating! Heeeeere we go:
1. How do you like your eggs?
2. Would you rather be stung by a bee in the eyelid or have a giant catfish think your finger is bait and clamp onto your hand? (You can thank Bear Grylls for that question…)
3. What was last year’s Halloween costume?
My answers!
1. Scrambled!
2. Mmmm bee – no question.
3. Shawn Johnson (homegirl lives down my street!) Ben was Bela Karolyi…could you just die?!
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Hey, speaking of nice people – check out Mara’s INSANE Cheese Giveaway!!
OMG how freaking adorable is that costume?! Thanks for the linkback on the giveaway…its a really good one, huh?
1. Over-medium
2. Hmm…been bitten by a catfish, but never stung by a bee…but i’d still go with bee!
3. Last year? I just wore a skeleton T-shirt since costumes weren’t allowed at work. The year before I was a cat!
I love Australian liquorice! Did you know that World Market in West DSM carries it! As does my local Hy-Vee, so if you run out it is available locally!
1. Scrambled, usually! (Over-easy is great on toast, or poached on an English muffin!)
2. Um…I’ll go with bee, if I must.
3. Haven’t worn a costume in at least five years, but I’m not opposed to it.
1. Scrambled…just scrambled some with spinach and put it into a wrap!
2. Finger, the thought of something happening to my eye always scares me.
3. Last year me and my friend were proteins, once again I know I’m a science nerd
1. scrambled….or pop scrambled eggs in a small round container and microwave it and make it into a sandwich with an arnold’s sandwich thins.
2. finger! anything eye, EEK! i already have vision limitations, i’m not about to add to that!
3. i don’t think we dressed up last year! i want to but boyfriend’s no fun!
aw, how sweet of her to send you licorice! also, i have got to make this sweet potato dish.
1. Runny! but anyway is good with me
2. Catfish since I’m allergic to bee stings.
3. We don’t normally dress up, but we should!
1.) Over Easy
2.) Catfish, I’m allergic to bees!
3.) My ex and I went as Reno 911 cops. The costumes were a real hit.
Sunny side up or in an omlet!
I did get bit by a mosquito by my eye and it swelled up like I had been in a fight with Tyson!
No costume last year, but have a Great Idea for this year, just got invited to a party last night!
Halloween is my FAVE holiday, sorry other holidays.
1. Love all eggs, but if I had to pick, over easy.
2. Catfish. I’ve done it before. They don’t have teeth, just a rough sandpaper feel, but a strong grip when they bite down. Still got all my fingers.
3. No costume last year.
you are too sweet and too welcome my dear – thank YOU for all your help! it was so appreciated!
ummm that sausage/apple/sweet potato dish looks amazing – perfect for this cool fall weather. definitely adding that to my list!
(1) eggs – i like em’ runny!
(2) i am going to go bee too – the thought of a catfish clamping onto my hand is NOT a pretty one.
(3) a red-tailed black cockatoo…it’s a long story
have a fabulous thursday!
1. Eggs – I like them over easy, with a runny yolk. Mmm.
2. Hmm, probably the catfish. Bee stings are just downright awful. Not that a catfish bite would be a walk in the park.
3. I kind of hate Halloween so I didn’t really dress up. But my joke was that I was going as a ‘surburban mom’ because I went trick or treating w/ my nephews and carried my 7 month nephew in a baby bjorn.
I have made something similar to your dish but I am definitely trying your recipe ASAP, thanks for sharing!
1) scrambled or in a frittata with lots of veggies
2) I’m allergic to bees, so I’ll have to say the catfish.
3) I went as a mom taking her two toddlers, a Hershey kiss and a lion, trick or treating.
1. Scrambled – no doubt!
2. very random… I’d pick the catfish on hand so I didn’t have to deal with a swollen eyelid.
3. I was a dirty martini for Halloween last year. It was homemade and very lame! I hate spending $$ on halloween costumes!
What a lovely surprise!
1) scrambled w/ cheese & veggie mix-ins
2) bee sting (ouch!)
3) I think I was lame & didn’t dress up last year, or if I did I sure can’t remember what I was haha :/
What an adorable costume!
1. Scrambled. It’s the only way I will eat eggs.
2. Bee sting.
3. My office did an 80′s theme. It was lots of fun.
mmm I have not had a pear for.ever! I need to break out some of those (I always get in fruit and veggie ruts and seem to eat the same thing over and over).
Im curious but where do you do your grocery shopping in DSM? I used to work in West Des Moines and as much as I love Hyvee, sometimes the produce and selection just didnt do it for me
Ill be in Des Moines next weekend for the Dave Matthews concert! Any crazy restaurant ideas? Im dying to try something new before we go jam out at principal park
Nice people are great! I love just getting hand written notes instead of emails because it shows people care enough to take the time and spend for the stamp. They just make me smile.
1. How do you like your eggs? I like egg white omelettes with lots of veggies on a whole wheat tortilla with cheese and salsa. But if I have to eat them plain I like over-medium.
2. Would you rather be stung by a bee in the eyelid or have a giant catfish think your finger is bait and clamp onto your hand? (You can thank Bear Grylls for that question…)
Definitely the catfish. I’m allergic to bees so that could be dangerous to my health and I could lose my eye :0(
3. What was last year’s Halloween costume? I didn’t dress up because I was recovering from surgery and had to lay on the couch in my PJ’s. I guess you could say I was dressed as a college student
Yum, I love pears!
1. Scrambled and usually only the egg whites.
2. I’d take the bee sting on the eyelid.
3. I didn’t dress up last year for Halloween, sad times! I love your costume though!
Awww, how sweet of Holly!! I’ve never tried this type of licorice, I’ll have to keep my eye out for it.
Your breakie cookie looks fabulous this morning. It’s been about a week or more since I’ve had one last. Why have I gone this long? Silly me!
I hope your lunch is fabulous
Mike brought leftovers in sandwich form today- meatloaf sandwich. Not going to lie, it kind of sounds appetizing…
1. I’m a scrambled girl
2. I would rather have a fish bite my finger I think, that’s a toss up!
3. Daisy Duke
Great costumes!
1. I’m vegan, so I don’t eat eggs. I never liked them anyhow. But I do make the occasional omelet or egg sammy for the omni hub.
2. No lie, I’ve been stung in the eyelid TWICE. It’s wasn’t pretty. I think it still was probly better than the catfish bite would be, though.
3. I didn’t dress up last year (can’t remember why…?). One of my favorite Halloweens was when hub (before he was hub) and I dressed as Tyler and Marla from Fight Club. I was skeptical that others would know who we were supposed to be, but everyone did! Costume success.
y’all are so cute!!
1) poached!
this year, my friend and I are going to dress up as Tobias and Lindsey from Arrested Development!
2) catfish… sounds a lot less painful than a bee sting
3) I didn’t dress us last year
YUM Sweet potatoe/apple/(tofurky) sausage! AMAZINNNG idea!
thanks love!
i like tofu scramble.. so scrambled
i would rather a fish bite my hand.. i think…
last year i was a bee.
Awww what a sweet package! Love the liquorice and cookie cutter! And your halloween costume last year was AWESOME! I love it!
1) scrambled!
2) holy crap ouch!! um, i guess the bee… the fish thing would probably traumatize me for life.
3) i didn’t have one! so sad
Yogurt covered licorice? MMMMM. I want.
1. Scrambled.
2. I guess the bee sting would be over quicker, so that.
3. A devil. Boring.
I totally love Aussi Licorice too……..espically “raspberry”, YUMMY! =) I am going to have to get some a Target this weekend for sure.
1) scrampled or fried
2) bee
3) nothing, my daughter was “Wonder Women” though……she loved the costume and had no idea who she was! =O
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1. In oatmeal! Haha
2. Catfish
3. An inflatable ostrich rider suit. It was so much fun to walk up and down the Boston streets in that.
I would never have guessed any bit of that meal was leftover
LOL, I LOVE your Halloween costume! Hilarious!
Isn’t the blogosphere amazing? I love the unconditional support and enthusiasm. Fellow bloggers never fail to surprise me with their random acts of kindness!
1) Fried…in bacon grease! I haven’t had eggs this way in years, but that’s how my mom made them and they were wonderful! But, I usually just scramble them.
2) Neither, thanks!
3) Green M&M
1) Poached!
2) Bee – definitely.
3) I didn’t dress up for halloween last year
1. Whites only!
2. Catfish.
3. My fiance and I were Double Dare contestants (complete with orange flags, goggles and a cup taped to our helmets – to catch slime). We were the red team. And we happened to run into a blue team at a bar. So we put them up to a physical challenge (a beer chugging relay race). The red team won, of course.
BTW, I tried the breakfast cookie and couldn’t handle it cold. So I heated it up and it was perfect. I even added a little brown sugar on top… the melted sugar made it dessert-like. Fab fab.
Ohmylanta I am cracking up at your costumes! SO funny! I’m laughing b/c it looks like Ben is having to hold that mustache on with his lips – very cute!
I love the costume! Ben looks hilarious!
1. I don’t really eat eggs anymore but I liked them scrambled in sandwiches or in a fritatta with lots of veggies
2. I freak out when anything gets close to my eyes so probably a catfish…yikes
3. I was sick last year so I didn’t dress up
I’m not sure what I’ll be this year yet…I need to start thinking
BTW your pictures have been awesome lately! Have a good day
1) Over hard or better yet over broken – ie break the yoke before it’s flipped…I don’t want any runny egg yolk.
2) Do catfish have teeth? I think catfish unless they are rather shark like.
3) I was in New Orleans last year so I had no costume except drunk girl…
don’t worry K I didn’t forget about your starbucks surprise…it’s still on my counter