Fruity porridge pie - My new favourite breakfast

I hated having breakfast for a long time, I rather just skipped it and went straight into lunch. By the time obviously I was starving, so I ate too much. Since I started working, I forced myself to eat something in the morning. On workdays I always eat a banana, that is the only thing I can swallow and I have the time for. On my days off, in the other hand, I love breakfast. I like thinking about what am I having, and always take my time to eat it. 

This recipe is definitely a day off breakfast, although if you are not a big morning rusher as I am (I like to sleep as much as I can before work, as I am working 12 hour shifts), you can definitely fit this in before work, because the preparing is only 2 minutes, and while it is in the oven, you can get yourself ready, then eat before you leave the house. Doable. :)

Anyway, I found this recipe on my friend, Andi's blog, it is in Hungarian, but even if you don't understand any of it, go and check it out, her pictures are to die for (she photographed our wedding, by the way! :D). 

Ingredients

50 grams of porridge oats

1 egg

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon of baking powder

1/2 tablespoon of honey/maple syrup/coconut sugar, whatever you prefer

1 banana

a handful of berries

cinnamon to taste

Method

Preheat your oven to 180 degrees (fan oven, 200 on a regular). Cut the banana into circles and lay them in an oven safe dish. Put some berries on top, then sprinkle it with cinnamon, cover it with tinfoil, then put it in the oven. 

Mix the oats with the egg, the baking powder, honey, and vanilla. If it is not liquidy enough (depends on the size of your egg and the type of sweetener you are using), add some milk. It is brilliant with coconut milk, but anything will do, even water. Take your dish out of the oven, remove the tinfoil. Pour your batter on top of your fruits, then add the remaining berries on top. Put it back for 15 minutes. This way it will still be a bit moist, but if you like your cakes drier, leave it in for 20. 

Today I used less oats, and it turned out a wee bit more spongecakey, but not any less delicious. Go and experience with it, next time I will add desiccated coconut as well, and it works with any kind of fruits. The bananas are great tho, because they become mushy at the bottom, and it is just heaven with the cinnamon. It doesn't taste healthy, it is like a proper sweet thing, but it is healthy. I love it. 

Let's go for 10K!

I started running in last June, but the first couple of months I wouldn't call proper running, as I was just getting used to it. So by the time I actually started enjoying it, the summer was over, and so were all the running events. I made a resolution, that this year I am going to keep an eye on all running events in my area, as I wanted to sign up for races. I have never been into sport events in my life. I was always the chubby one, who struggled in school at PE lessons, and hated everything that was mandatory. I loved swimming, but never did it professionally, I just did it because it helped my asthma as a child. 

The only race I have ever been to and I actually ended up being second, was when I was 15, and we went on a rowing camp with school. I was so happy when I came second in cajaking, but they didn't have any medals, and it just made me depressed. I won a fricking chocolate bar. Seriously. 

So this January, I signed up for Race for Life, which is organised by Cancer Research UK. And I went for the 10K distance. I have never ran 10 km ever in my life, the longest I did was I think just under 9 last autumn. But the event is in June, and I am dedicated, and I am going to do it. And everyone is getting a medal, which is funny that motivates me, but like I said I have never won anything, and I want medals. I want a lot. So I will keep my eyes peeled for other events as well, as it is such a great motivator to look forward for something like this. 

The weather started getting not that wet, so I am out in the park again, and I enjoy it very much. :)

The first run of January, 2016

The last time I was out, I almost made it to 6 km, so I am pretty sure by June comes, 10 will be no bother for me. 

And an other great thing, my running number arrived a couple of weeks ago, and I am number 72, which means I was quite early for signing up, which makes me proud! And I got temporary tattoos as well for the day, I am going to be the lamest but proudest runner out there! :D 

Of course my main reason for entering was to participate in a running event, but I can't post this without mentioning the cause. Cancer is a bitch and should GTFO. If any of you want to donate to Cancer Research UK, here is a safe way to do so, I set up a fundraising page: just click HERE. Thank you. ♥

Friends

Friendship is such an interesting thing. As a kid, you are friends with your neighbour, then the kids from school, and you feel like it is such a deep and strong connection between you (sometimes it really is), that it will never fade. But after moving, or changing school, or just graduating, you realize, that you were friends with certain people, because they were close to you, and you spent most of your days with them at classes, or at the playground. This doesn't necessary mean, that it was nothing important. But it is true, that if you want to meet up with someone, you are going to reach out for them, and when you notice, that you haven't spoken to someone since leaving school, there is a reason behind it. 

Interestingly enough, most of my friends, who I met in real life (school, university, work, whatever) are in this category. I think I have like a couple of friends, who I met in real life, work or through a friend, who I love and I care for, but the majority of my friendships come from the internet. 

Funny how they say, that being online, not going outside, not going out will make you lonely, you won't build your social skills, you won't have anyone to speak to. I think everyone who reads this can relate (we are on the internet after all! :D) to me, I experienced the opposite. I have lovely friends, whom I met thanks to the internet, and would have never met them otherwise. Some of you may know, I used to be a crazy hardcore World of Warcraft player, and and I still keep in touch with most of our guildies, hey, we even moved in with one of them for a couple of months! :) Two of them became great friends of ours, and we speak every day, luckily we are closer to them here. 

But not just WoW, the internet in general has been a great place for me to find people who I love. I was like 15 when I started being active on a forum of a Hungarian teen magazine, and I met so many people there, it is crazy. It was such a long time ago, that my oldest friends are from there, and I don't even consider them "internet" anymore, because I just forget that this is how it started. Most of them I met eventually of course, but there are still friends, who I love and care for, who I know from there and we are yet to see each other in real life. 

And there are so many other ways to meet someone, reading blogs, instagram, everything basically. I felt quite poorly the past couple of days, the flu got me, and I got the cutest get well card and gift from a friend, who is kind of a mix of real life and internet friend, as she is my sister's friend, but I know her from "here", the internet. Anyway, it is just so lovely, that someone, who you never shared a room with, is thinking about you, and cares for you. 

And so I am at least a bit on topic, it is so much easier to go through a big change like mine with the internet. There are so many people helping me with comments, likes, and just general support. Having friends and people who care for you is the greatest thing. Thank you, love you. Yes, you. :)