Brown rice for breakfast

This concoction came about the other night when I had extra brown rice left over from dinner.
After most meals I am searching for a little something sweet. There was nothing obvious or ready made in the house so I had to be crafty to satisfy my sweet tooth.
I kind of just started looking around kitchen and adding things to the brown rice. Then I started to think about middle eastern deserts like baklava and halva, so I went for sweet, spice and nutty. I have since decided that this can be for breakfast too.

If you have extra time then you can gently toast the sesame seeds and slivered almonds.
Other add-ins could be raisins, currents, dried cranberries, grated apple, walnuts, etc...


Sweet brown rice
1/2 cup of brown rice, cooked
1 tbs agave
1/4 tsp cinnamon, ground
pinch of cardamom, ground
1/8 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp sesame seeds
1 tbs coconut, dry shredded
1 tbs flax seeds
1 1/2 tsp tahini
2 tbs slivered almonds

Stir together and enjoy.


Vanilla tofu cream
1/2 cup of firm silken tofu
1 tbs wax orchard fruit sweet
couple of drops of vanilla
zest of half a lemon

Blend and serve. I usually eat with fruit.
If you don't have fruit sweet you can use honey, agave or whatever else.

Easy whole-wheat chips

Easy whole-wheat chips
Serves 6

1 package of Garden Of Eatin' whole-wheat tortillas (6 tortillas)
2 teaspoons olive oil
Fine sea salt

Brush each tortilla (both sides) with about 1/3 teaspoon of olive oil. Sprinkle each side with a little salt. Cut into 1/4’s and then 1/4’s again making 16 chips per tortilla. Bake at 350 till gently browned, should be somewhere between 3-5 mins depending on your oven.

You can also make these with cinnamon and sugar, honey and sesame seeds, or whatever else your pretty little heads can think of. If you have a gluten or wheat allergy you can make these with brown rice tortillas instead, Food For Life makes them. Both the whole wheat and brown rice tortillas can be found frozen section at your friendly healthy food store.

I view the olive oil as being fairly negligible since each tortilla has about 1/3 of a teaspoon therefore it's not reflected in the below nutritional information.

Nutritional info per tortilla or 16 chips
Calories 110
Calories from fat 10
Fat 1
Cholesterol 0
Sodium 130
Carbohydrate 22
Fiber 3
Sugar less than 1
Protein 4

W.W. 2
The Daily Plate