{"id":553,"date":"2013-07-13T09:18:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T17:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2013-07-13T09:19:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T17:19:43","slug":"breakfast-sets-the-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/13\/breakfast-sets-the-tone\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast sets the tone for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, for about nine months, I think, I&#8217;ve been eating the same breakfast most days: 1\/3 cup hot multigrain cereal with 1 large stalk (or 2 small stalks) finely chopped kale, topped with a fried egg over easy and sprinkled with pepper and nutritional yeast, accompanied by Harney &amp; Sons Formosa Oolong tea. The cereal mix sounds really strange to a lot of people &#8212; even if they&#8217;re on board with the egg, the kale is pretty out there (or vice versa). But I love it. The egg yolk melts into the cereal mix, and the kale and nutritional yeast add complexity, texture, and richness. The tea (which <a href=\"http:\/\/kasinacolinwedding.com\/\">my brother<\/a> introduced me to) has a great flavor, mild enough to drink without sugar or milk but still nutty and strong, and is hard to overbrew, which is perfect since I&#8217;m usually focused on timing the cereal, kale, and egg sequence.<\/p>\n<p>When I sit down on the sofa with my bowl of cereal and my tea, and I break the yolk and taste that first bite before the yolk gets mixed in, hot and rich, and sip my tea, I try to enjoy it fully, and think about how lucky I am to get my favorite food and tea every morning, sitting on my couch with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/armchairlinguist\/sets\/72157633172314025\/\">my cat<\/a>. It sets a tone for the day of enjoying the small things, which is my favorite way to feel happier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, for about nine months, I think, I&#8217;ve been eating the same breakfast most days: 1\/3 cup hot multigrain cereal with 1 large stalk (or 2 small stalks) finely chopped kale, topped with a fried egg over easy and sprinkled with pepper and nutritional yeast, accompanied by Harney &amp; Sons Formosa Oolong tea. The cereal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}