1/2 Box (1 pouch) Waffle/Pancake Mix of your choice
1 Tbsp. butter
1 1/2 cups warm water
1 cup blueberries
3 scoops (1 cup) Optimum Nutrition 100% Whey Protein Vanilla Flavor

Topping:

SUGAR FREE Syrup
This is one breakfast that will fill you up without fattening you up.

Blueberry Protein Pancakes

1. Mix one pouch of Waffle mix and whisk as you add warm water, melted butter, protein powder and optional spices. (You can leave the butter out to remove some fat.)
2. Continue mixing until batter is smooth (no lumps). Gently fold in blueberries.
3. Take 1/3 cup batter and pour in non-stick pan after spraying the pan with non-fat cooking spray.
4. Turn pancakes when edges appear cooked and bubbles appear in middle. Turn only once.

This recipe doubles well and the extra pancakes can be stored in the freezer or refrigerator for easy re-heating.

Yield: 3 servings. Serving size 3 pancakes.

When you are in a new place, foods are of course different and there are places that serve exotic foods? In Palawan, here in the Philippines, they have this certain food called “coco-ro-coco”, it’s crocodile meat cooked in coconut milk, I haven’t tried this but when I visited the place, I found out that many foreigners are enjoying the dish. In Angono, province of Rizal, there is this place called Balaw-balaw. The place serves snake meat, monitor lizard (bayawak), dog stew, etc.

Also when I was in the northern part of the Philippines which most people leave there are Ilocanos, I saw people carrying few giant bats coming from mountain, well you know what, it’s for food also. There are people also in northern part who are fund of eating Tinolang Palaka (frog), Pritong Salagubang (fried beatles deep in salt…don’t know exact english name for “salagubang”), also cat is being eaten here also…

My curiousity with foods is limited to normally eaten foods prepared differently but not to eating the unusual like camaru, a grasshopper like insect that usually infested rice fields, to get rid of them the farmers in some provinces here eat them.

How about you? Have you eaten exotic foods? or will you try them?

Tea is a great morning starter and a calming herbal concoction to cater people from different age groups. Tea is the next most popular drink to water. Specially to health conscious people that I’ve ever been like the Koreans, Malaysians, Chinese, etc. Just like morning or mid-afternoon coffee breaks, drinking tea is usually associated with healthy and satisfying rituals or get togetherness.

Different researches show that drinking approximately two to four cups of tea per day may cut down the risk of developing cancers and heart disease, and at the same time increase the level of antioxidants in the body. In addition, a cup of tea can lessen the cravings for high fat and sugar laden foods. But before I forgot don’t you know, there’s a healthy coffee now that also have antioxidants helps prevent cancer of any origin because of it’s alive content? Continue reading…

That’s right! You are not seeing or imagining things. The food processing companies really cannot be stopped in discovering new and unbelievable things for the betterment of mankind. But will this really be beneficial to us? In our fast paced lifestyle where everything comes from tetra packs, air-tight compact storage, one cannot be surprised with this trendy packaging. The next question would be, how would the burger inside fare to the best-loved-your-usual-tasty-burger we’ve known since we were little kids?
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A tear-free onion that should be tastier and healthier has been created by using genetic tinkering to turn off the enzyme that makes us cry.

The onions, which can be chopped without painful, stingy, weeping eyes, have been tested in the laboratory by New Zealand Crop & Food Research scientist Dr Colin Eady, with his collaborators in Japan. Continue reading…