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September 1st, 2010

Here’s an oddball post for you all. Happy hump day :)

I’ve been doing VERY well with my intentions from August’s New Moon! I’ve been much more active in the food my family eats. Something that I’ve started doing a lot more is cooking breakfast. This technically wasn’t part of my official intentions, but it’s related and has been born out of that New Moon.

In honor of my pride in myself, and breakfast, and growing even more than intended, I want to share with you a recipe for the fastest, easiest, yummiest, healthiest pancakes ever. And the thing I love most about it is, it’s a SMALL yield. If I’m throwing together pancakes on a Wednesday morning, I don’t want to make a dozen of them.

This recipe makes enough to feed Mike, Michael, and Eddie. I don’t like eating heavy food in the morning, and usually stick to fruit, nuts, yogurt, or a smoothie. But these men of mine need something substantial to keep them going!

So, without further ado, I give you:

Weekday Quick-Cakes

1 Cup whole grain flour (I use whole wheat usually, but oat four is awesome too!)
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

1 egg
1-2 TBSP melted butter (to taste… I use 2 because we don’t put butter on top.)
1 Cup milk (I use almond milk ALWAYS, but I don’t see why you couldn’t sub.)
vanilla (a little dribble… precise huh? lol)

Blend dry ingredients.
Blend wet ingredients.
Pour wet mixture into dry mixture and stir briskly for about 5-7 seconds then walk away. Yeah, I know there’s some lumps. Leave it. Heat up your pan (I ♥ My Griddle).

I like to make little cakes. Make big if you want. When your pan is ready and hot (1-2 minutes) give your batter a last turn or two with your wisk or spoon or rubber spatula and then deposit your desired amount, into the pan and cook.

So easy and fast, I just wrote all this from memory. Now THAT’S an easy recipe!

A wonderful morph of this recipe is; Cut the milk in half and add half a cup of applesauce. Then, replace your dribble of vanilla with 1/2 tsp cinnamon and a pinch of nutmeg. *drool*

Have a great hump day everyone!!

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I AM a miracle in motion~ Only more miracles can come from me*
My words have power~ I will choose them wisely*
Wonderful new experiences give me wonderful new ways to express the divinity that I am*

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Attraction in Action, Conscious Living, New Moon Update, Recipe

(* Half Moon Book Review

September 1st, 2010

Welcome to my new “Half Moon Book Review!”

half moon

I’ve been reading so many awesome books lately, I decided that I needed an official way in which to share my thoughts about them. Out of that need, the idea for this formed.

I must warn you all, if I pick up a book and am bored out of my skull by page 30, I DO put them down. I won’t power through a book and give a luke warm review. I will tell you that I stopped reading and why.

Some book just aren’t my cup of tea, as I’m sure you can ALL understand.

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Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle

Stillness Speaks

This was a wonderful book. I borrowed mine from the library for two weeks, renewed it and kept it for another two weeks, and have decided to just buy a copy of my own.

It doesn’t read like a book. It’s split up into small, easily digestible pieces that make a wonderful tool for the master and novice, alike.

Some “snippets” are only one or two lines and some are several paragraphs long, but they all bring a thought provoking message about the stillness within. About how to connect with that creative and perfect silence within you.

I’ll share one of my favorites from the book as an example.

That plant that you have in your home – have you ever truly looked at it? Have you allowed that familiar yet mysterious being we call “plant” to teach you it’s secrets? Have you noticed how deeply peaceful it is? How it’s surrounded by a field of stillness? The moment you become aware of a plant’s emanation of stillness and peace, that plant becomes your teacher.

I sat down in a comfy chair and read the entire book in about 3 hours. Then I started going through and reading one little “snippet” in the morning, and then another in the evening before bed. That is probably how I will continue on with it when my own copy arrives from Amazon.

I ♥ Amazon!

This is a seekers book for sure. I also want to add; This book doesn’t read like “Eckhart Tolle.” I’ve known some people that just couldn’t follow Tolle very well and preferred not to read his books. This book is split up in such a way that it’s a VERY easy read. I would recommend it to everyone, but most especially anyone who wants to try or is new to meditation. As you read each little part, and then contemplate the words, it becomes a meditation in and of itself.

I felt like this book was a demonstration of how becoming still in the mind isn’t necessarily about sitting cross-legged in the corner with your eyes closed. Stillness is everywhere just waiting for your mind to become still enough for you to become a witness.

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