Baked Egg, Nested in Avocado

This is a healthy, highly nutritious breakfast that's very easy to make. It requires pretty much less than five ingredients: the avocado, the egg, and whatever spices/sauces you want to flavour it with. For this one, I used salt, pepper, pesto and Sriracha sauce.

Here's a link to some of the healthy benefits of the avocado. Read here.

I made this for Easter Sunday breakfast at home, a few weeks ago. I served the avocado with some Green Tea & Chocolate Waffles with berries. It was a very interesting contrast in taste and texture: the crispy edges of the waffle with the creaminess of the avocado; the subtle sweetness of the chocolate in the waffle, with the tartness of the berries and spicy, savoury flavour of the toppings on the avocado. If you'd like to see the recipe for the waffles, click here.

Green Tea and Chocolate Waffles

This is my "go to" recipe for Belgian waffles. It's very easy to make and if you make the batter the night before (leave it in the ref, covered) and cook it the next morning, the waffle becomes fluffier, as the yeast has had time to grow.

You can make it plain too (and omit the green tea and chocolate).

I sprinkled the waffles with confectioner's sugar and served them with blackberries and raspberries.

NOX Dine in the Dark: An Unforgettable Experience in Mindful Dining

I'm going to change gears here a little bit by writing not about a tried and true recipe of mine, but a unique dining experience I had just a few weeks ago. This is the first time I'm writing about a restaurant in this blog, but I think this one deserves it. Not only is this an unusual experience of dining in the dark, but it is also a lesson on Mindful Dining.

With my good friend and fellow foodie Karyn, on our Dine in the Dark adventure.