Yesterday was an awesome day.  It started with the link love and an awesome recipe round up on Angela’s blog (Welcome, new visitors!) and ended with…

…a kitten!

Yesterday I met the perfect baby girl.  She is a loving, 10 month old rescue kitty who purrs constantly.

This is the sweetest, most loving kitten in the world.  She walked in and made herself at home.  Note to self – trim her claws!

Her name is Stevie.  As in Nicks.

Stevie was very curious about my breakfast.  We both need to work on NOT begging for food. 🙂

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One of the recipes from yesterday’s round up was from Averie @ Love Veggies and Yoga.

I just happened to have everything on hand to make her Microwave Blueberry-Banana Oat Cakes for breakfast.

I made a few modifications, but followed her recipe pretty closely.  I will for-sure be trying this again and experimenting with different fruits/toppings!

Microwave Blueberry-Banana Oat Cakes

• 1/2 ripe large banana, mashed
• 1/2 C dry oats
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
• Shake of salt
• 1/4 C unsweetened almond milk
• 2 tsp blackstrap molasses
• 1/4 C fresh blueberries

Mash the banana in a microwavable bowl.  Add remaining ingredients except blueberries, stirring to combine.  Fold in blueberries.

Allow to stand ~5 mins, until oats soften a bit. Microwave for 3.5 – 4 mins.

Per Averie: You will know when it’s done because it will not be “juicy” looking anymore and it may have some “holes” on the surface.

After mircowaving, allow to rest for a couple minutes (mine didn’t make it longer than a minute…).  Eat in that bowl or easily invert/remove from bowl and re-plate it, or take as a to-go snack.

I didn’t top mine, but next time I’d love a glob of melty almond butter on top.  PBJ oat cake.  Greek yogurt would also be tasty (icing on the cake!).

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I’m trying hard to motivate myself to go run after last night’s downpour.

Do you like running in post-rain conditions?  Is it so fresh and so clean or just chilly and wet?

Come on, sunshine!