Welcome to the day after Canada Day!! We survived and had a great time.  We went down to Charlottetown Summerfest at the waterfront, we had a family barbecue ( which I forgot to take my camera ) but the food was amazing and we stayed up for the fireworks.

I will give you a little recap on the fireworks and include a short video compliments of Jeff Docherty at Jeffdoc.com after I share with you my off the cuff front end loaded waffles that I made this morning.  Because I have the way off today, breakfast can be a little more elaborate.  Not to say this is over the moon but I must say it was pretty tasty and filling. 

For breakfast, are you all about taste or more about wondering if you can make it to lunch before dying of starvation? I think I am a little bit of both.

Ingredients

• 3 Waffles
• Raspberries
• Banana ( sliced )
• Ground Flax seed
• Maple Syrup
• Molasses
• Raspberry Yogurt
• Grapes

Method

1. Cook your waffles according to your liking.  I just used frozen waffles but feel free to make your own in your waffle maker with a simple pancake batter.
2. Top with remaining ingredients



3. ENJOY!

Zesty Tip: I may hold off on the yogurt as it was a bit too heavy and it started to make them soggy.  I may opt for a dollop of whip cream or omit altogether.

2010 Charlottetown Fireworks

Again, before we begin, I cannot take any credit for this next piece as Jeff Docherty at Jeffdoc.com uploaded the video and the quality is excellent.  Thanks Jeff.

I hope you have a great friday and a wonderful weekend.  We are contemplating a trip to the zoo, a zesty junior haircut, and possibly some lawn tractor shopping.  I know can you believe it… our grass has started!!

Take care

zesty

It is mid week Wednesday and the end of the work week for me!  I will pretend I am not excited as I type this little intro but you know I am bouncing around in my chair with excitement.  Tomorrow is Canada day here and I took Friday off as well to make a 4 day weekend.  Whoooo Hooooo!

Both yesterday and on the weekend, I was inspired to make smoothies.  I had tried a smoothie with POM juice and I almost fell off my rocker ( I really mean my office chair ).  It was so damn good I knew I had to make it again and again.  For this creation I did a combination that I like to call POM Star Summer!

Ingredients

• Vanilla Frozen Yogurt
• Blackberries
• Raspberries
• Banana
• POM Juice
• Whey Protein Powder ( optional )

Method

1. Get out your blender or Magic Bullet.
2. Add all ingredients and blend
3. ENJOY!

Zesty Tip: If you are using protein powder and a blender I like to add the powder at the very first so it mixes well.  The same holds true for a magic bullet but just in reverse because you flip the cup over so add it at the very end.

I hope you have a great Wednesday and I would like to wish all the Canadians a Happy Canada Day tomorrow.  I will be doing something fun for the long weekend and I am hearing rumblings of sun sun sun all weekend long.  Talk to you on Friday.

Take care

zesty