A super easy breakfast recipe!
I laugh when people leave angry comments on my blog, complaining my recipes are too simple, like this is a bad thing. In reality, it’s my goal to offer ideas and recipes that don’t require a Ph.D or a bunch of obscure ingredients. I want the recipes to be as simple as possible, and I sometimes even remake ones I think are too complicated, before posting them on the blog.
We grow up in a society that emphasizes the notion: more is more; and the laundry lists of ingredients on our packaged foods grow longer by the minute. With so much being thrown at us, it’s beneficial to work at taking specific steps to simplify our lives as much as possible. For example, why make a recipe with twenty ingredients when something with five can taste just as delicious? Today’s yogurt bowl is one of my favorite healthy breakfast recipes, with just three ingredients.
No expensive protein powders, superfood berries, or wheatgrass… just yogurt, milk, and fresh fruit!
The Yogurt Breakfast Bowl
(serves 1)
- 1 cup frozen raspberries (110g)
- 1/3 to 1/2 cup milk of choice (120g) (depending on desired thickness)
- 6 oz plain or vanilla yogurt of choice (I like Wholesoy.)
- Especially if using an unsweetened milk, you’ll probably wish to add a little sweetener of choice
Blend all ingredients in a blender or magic bullet until smooth. Pour into a bowl. On really hot days, I like to now put the bowl in the freezer for up to an hour. Top with your favorite granola, fresh fruit, etc. (My favorite summer breakfast: this yogurt recipe, extra raspberries on top, and peanut butter slathered on some fresh HSH chia bread from Whole Foods.)
Question of the Day:
Is your life complicated, with people and obligations pulling you in all different directions?
Sometimes when things get really stressful, I fantasize about moving to Hawaii… and not bringing my computer or cell phone. Just me, a beach blanket, and a giant coconut filled with fresh coconut water, lounging under the sun. All day, every day. How amazing does that sound?
Link of the Day:
It takes all kinds to make up the world. I just don’t understand why people always expect everything to suit themselves. You don’t like a simple recipe? Go find a trickier one!
I would love to spend some time in spring or summer at Versailles. The gardens there are beautiful but as a teacher in oz I can only travel there in the European winter. I’ve never seen the fountains working, or flowers. I am also at the stage where I’m wondering why I’m doing a job that’s so stressful. Surely it doesn’t have to be this way?
Here in oz we’re celebrating ANZAC day. It’s when we remember those who fought, and died for us in war. So I’ve made your Krispy creme-ish doughnut recipe but with an Aussie twist- roasted wattle seeds.
Have you ever tried them? They have a coffee/chocolate/hazelnut flavour to them. You probably won’t want to put them in a recipe in the blog, because they’d be a bit hard for your American followers to find, but I thought you might enjoy them yourself. 🙂
You can get them from bushtuckershop.com
Thanks for the work that you do. Please don’t try and please everyone- it’s an impossible task!
I’d never heard of them before. I’m off to google right now :).
Sounds yummy and looks great for a simple breakfast for the kids during the summer! In response to your answer for the question of the day, next week is Screen Free Week. 😉
I think the problem is, some recipes can be so simple that they don’t seem like recipes they just seem like common sense. With recipes like that I sometimes feel like I’m being a little ripped off (not that this is a problem I’ve found with your site, but I earlier today read a recipe for Vegemite and cheese on toast which was literally put some Vegemite and then some cheese on your toast, which I think I could have figured out myself).
I’m not trying to start an arguement, but I have found your sentiments echoed on other blogs, and especially often in the comment section of this particular blog, and I find this disheartening. Why should a blog reader feel “ripped off” for anything the blogger writes when he or she is not paying any earned money to see the content? If you don’t like a certain post, you move on and come back another day (or don’t). But readers have no right to feel this sense of entitlement that a blogger is “supposed” to post anything in particular. If a blogger wanted to post vegemite on cheese every single day, over and over, that is his or her right. It wouldn’t be a smart move for the blogger to gain readership, but readers would have no right to complain because a blogger has a right to post what he or she wants. I would hope that my favorite bloggers stay true to themselves and post whatever is moving them at the moment. If that is a complicated homemade soft pretzel recipe one day, I’m great with that! And if, on another day, it’s a simple yogurt bowl that many people make their own variation of, that’s ok too. If I don’t need the recipe or idea on that particular day, I can at least enjoy the photos and commentary. And I think we all can agree that the photos in this post are amazing!
Emily, this is not a jab at you. I think your comment was respectful and not troll-like. I am more referring to some of the other comments I’ve seen over the years on blogs like this (and sometimes, but rarely, on my own small blog). I come back again and again to Katie’s blog because I can see that hard work and effort are put into even the simplest of posts. I come back again and again because I ENJOY this blog, and I think that’s what readers who feel “entitled” need to remember: if you are not liking a blog, you have the right to not read it. But you don’t have the right to tell the blogger what he or she must post to suit your needs.
I just have to say how amazing you are: all of your recipes are easy to find and you keep the list up-to-the-minute! I was looking for a recipe today (lemon squares and I made them tonight, thank you very much!) and found it with not a moment longer than 23.7sec. Record for blogs!!
Keep up the awesomely important food work! Like this yogurt recipe – delicious! I shall have to make it. =]
Oh my, people will complain about anything. I for one, love simple recipes, the simpler the better I think. This looks like my kind of breakfast, I adore raspberries, they are definitely my favorite berry.
Keep the simple recipes coming!
I’m all about simplicity in the kitchen. Good ingredients can shine. Plus, figuring out proper proportions for simple combos takes finesse, so I am not against simple recipes. I always feel like I have twenty balls in the air, it’s nice to not complicate the kitchen too:)
This smoothie is such a bright pink! My smoothies always turn out brownish green.
I’m much more inclined to follow a simple or moderate recipe, but I also love the really complicated ones for getting ideas and just as light reading. :o) I often don’t get around to using them. I’m also more likely to modify a recipe that’s terribly complicated.
My life is pretty simple. I do a lot of things, but I enjoy them, and I also have plenty of time to rest and reflect.
I’d say the most stressful thing in my life today is waiting for the carpenter to finally arrive.
I really enjoy your blog and refer to it often. In fact, I baked your single serving chocolate cake with my seven-year old tutee yesterday. (I added a [simple] ganache and stuck a piece fancy Swiss chocolate bar into the top. We made one for her and one for her dad and they loved them.
Your recipes are just too simple! Just kidding. Love this one. Thanks 🙂
Amen to that Katie…simple is always better in my book.
I mean, it is kind of funny to read people saying “OMG, such a great idea!” to yogurt + fruit + granola. Like they couldn’t come up with that all by themselves. Still, it’s one of my favorite combos to eat, not just at breakfast time.
Now this is my kind of breakfast! I love it and it’s so pretty!
Hahaha at people complaining about simple recipes. Recipes that are too long with complicated ingredients intimidate me & I stay far away! LOVE this breakfast and freezing it is an insanely genius (and simple!! winkwink) idea.
Thank you for the simplicity!!! Please keep it up! As a work-from-home mom of a five-year-old with family responsibilities every which way, I delight in the simplicity of your recipes. You make everything seem do-able and help me think outside the must-be-difficult-to-be-good box. Bless you! Can’t wait for your cookbook….
I think the difference is that poeple are complaining that your recipes have gone from recipes to recipe IDEAS. Anyone could trhow these together, what makes it special is when theres a trick to making it extra delicious. Most of your recipes lately have been more about ideas. Obviously you have a lot going on, but I too have noticed less actual ‘recipes’.
Amber, I think you need to go back and actually read her blog before leaving negative comments that are simply not based on fact. And read my other comment further above in this post.
Just checked the last 16 posts of Katie’s, and they are 14 new RECIPES with just 2 of them being idea posts. I’d say that’s pretty awesome. Not sure how she’s managing to save any for the cookbook!
CCK, sorry for all the comments I’m answering. It just makes me so angry to see the amount of entitlement in this blogworld. People, if you want to fork over some actual money to these bloggers, then you have a right to complain about what you’re getting. Otherwise, showing a little bit of gratitude for the recipes you read wouldn’t be out of line.
I agree with Longtime Reader, the entitlement mentality in this country (and blogworld) is crazy. I do find it heartening to see how respectful most of the disagreements are, though!
And p.s.- I could always use a new bfast recipe. I’m in a rut.
Hi Amber,
I appreciate constructive criticism… but I’m confused by your comment. I actually thought my posts have been very recipe-heavy this last month or so! 😕
I guess people complain that the recipes are too simple is because, if a recipe is so simple it’s basically common sense. There would be no need to post it. I think people crave a lot of work because the sense of accomplishment after having made the recipe will be greater.