We are having some major sleeping issues around here. First me for the two nights I was in the hotel. And then last night Matt was awake at 2am and never really went back to sleep. He finally got out of bed at 5 and I mumbled “You can make the buckwheat bakes to be ready at 7 if you want” and fell back asleep.
I didn’t sleep all that well myself – it was HOT! We have our heat off and the house was 69*! We should have opened a window, but all of the storm windows are still down.
Lastly – Matt said I was LAUGHING in my sleep last night! I guess that’s better than crying!?
I also had dreams about airports, kale chips and MamaPea…
So were the buckwheat bakes ready at 7? YES THEY WERE!
Go Matt! Luckily I had prepped the dry ingredients last night and left a post-in for myself with the wet measurements so he was easily able to find them. I think I also mumbled “Edible Perspective…” in my sleep too.
Fruit Pie Buckwheat Bake
Inspired by Ashley’s Coconut Cream Blueberry Buckwheat Bake
For ONE bake:
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup buckwheat flour (ground from raw buckwheat groats)
- 1 tbsp buckwheat groats
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 mashed banana
- 1/4 cup 1% milk
- 1/4 cup frozen mixed fruit (was worried the strawberries would be too big/liquidy but they were the best part!!)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 whole egg
- 1 tbsp coconut butter flakes (not quite as good as Ashley’s stuffed cream and a bit undetectable)
Method
- Preheat oven to 350*
- Mix dry [I do this the night before in a jar]
- Mix wet.
- Pour wet into dry.
- Grease oven safe dish.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
- Cool slightly and topped with Flying Squirrel PB – Sneaky Cinnamon and GH jam – plus coconut sprinkles!
Dig in! I left it in the ramekin for easier eating, but I actually think removing it is more fun!
Peek in there to see the fruity pie filling!
Half a cup of coffee. My body is SO over this caffeine withdrawal. I’ve felt hungover many mornings recently. I think I need to ditch it once and for all – or go back to drinking a full cup! Ahhh. [FYI, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with coffee – in fact I think it’s good for you – but I just hate being addicted to it!]
Busy bee day again!
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Thanks for sharing! I love the presentation and it looks delicious!
That looks delicious! It’s super cute in the ramekin
69 degrees is cold!
We usually sleep with the heat at 60! I need to be cold when I sleep with the covers on
I agree! We keep the house at 64 at night during winter and at 74 during summer. How do you keep it so cool when its 100 degrees out? Your air con bill must be enormous!
Well it’s a whole different ball game in the summer! We sleep with windows open, lots of fans and just a sheet!
What a perfect breakfast! That’s so funny that you were laughing in your sleep
I love that placemat! It’s so cute! Breakfast looks delicious!
I LOVE that placemat!
I do weird things in my sleep as well. I (sometimes) sleep with my eyes half open, so you can only see the white part, and it freaks everyone out! One time my friend almost called 911 because she thought something happened to me. LOL! Have a great day!
Coffee isn’t necessarily a bad thing in small amounts. I’ve given it up twice, only to realize that my one cup a day isn’t bad for me. My father hated it and never drank it, and also was diagnosed w/ Alzheimers and Parkinsons in his late sixties. The reported benefits from coffee in terms of Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and the small amount I drink (I’m done w/ my one cup by 7:00 a.m.) convince me to keep on joeing.
I know, but I am overly sensitive to it and I just can’t get in a groove. Even going from 1 whole cup to half makes me ache, and adding a half cup makes me jittery. I think I just need a break
Sorry, forgot to mention you must be overly sensitive. Not generalizing; what works for one doesn’t necessarily work for another.
I didn’t know you were sensitive to it. I thought you were just giving it up because as you said above you didn’t like being addicted to it. To which I was going to say(!) – to read the message on your napkin – and not worry about it then.
30 minutes?! Eek. That’s a long time. Can you freeze or refrigerate them a day or so before to have?
I struggle with the coffee thing too. I love it, and I don’t think it’s bad in moderate quantities. I’m also not as sensitive to it as you seem to be. I don’t want to give up my coffee, but I hate that when I have to go without (for instance if we are traveling or if I’m rushing in the morning and don’t get my cup of coffee), I get a withdrawal headache and feel like crap. I haven’t found a good solution yet, but I definitely empathize with your struggle.
Why do you think that coffee is a good thing, Kath? I thought that caffeine isn’t the best thing for us? Thanks. Just curious
I did a report on it last year in one of my nutrition classes. Research shows that 1-2 cups a day is beneficial (antioxidants, slight central nervous stimulation) but more than 2 cups can be detrimental
Thanks, Kath!! I’ve been drinking green tea lots usually and was a little worried about the caffeine but it’s been doing the kindest things to my skin!
Sorry to hear about the sleeping issues — I was tossing and turning for weeks and I’m not sure why, but lately I’ve been sleeping like a rock. I slept so “hard” last night that I slept past my alarm and was almost late to work! That never happens!
I think I’ll try one of those bakes for dinner sometime — I just can’t see myself spending so much time making breakfast!
Bleh, that caffeine withdrawl is brutal. I have such a hard time getting myself going in the mornings without it – not because of a lack of energy, but because my brain is threatening to explode inside my head!
The buckwheat bakes look amazing! I actually tried buckwheat groats this past week (sort of as an oatmeal-type breakfast – made the same way) but I’m going to see how good my Cuisinart is at grinding them into flour….. or I may just buy some buckwheat flour to do this!
What size ramekins/oven-safe dishes are you using for the bakes? I’m trying to figure out if I have something that’s the right size.
Thanks!
I don’t know what size they are – maybe 1.5 cups?
I think it’s the weather! It was hard for me to get out of bed a few days this week and that NEVER happens to me. UGH!!
Hahaha – laughing is definitely better than crying. It’s gotta be comforting to know you’re having fun even while you’re sleeping right??
I’m absolutely in love with that place mat…and that spoon, but I always love your spoons
I’m definitely a sleep talker too! two nights ago my husband said I was rambling about blogging business, pics and whatnot
I really need to get on Ash’s buckwheat bake train they look so good. Unfortunately, I get impatient with breakfasts that take more than 5 minutes to make!
Someone once told me that “laughter is the spark of the soul.” You must have a happy soul
happy friday!!!!
Apparently I laugh in my sleep, too
That napkin is super super cute! 
What a creative and delicious-looking breakfast! And once again, I am smitten with your linens.
I’m a sleep laugher too! It annoys the boyfriend sometimes..or maybe creeps him out
I NEED to make a buckwheat bake asap!
Haha, yes I guess it is better to be laughing than crying! I can’t imagine why you two might be having some trouble sleeping, even though the bakery is coming along great I’m sure it is still a teeeeesy bit stressful
Those b-fast bakes look delish!
I have recently gone gluten free and am still learning all about it. Is buckwheat flour/groats GF?
I think it is..
I gave up coffee for Lent and while I don’t need the caffeine (I get enough from tea and sometimes I go decaf/no tea at all) I miss the taste of coffee sooo much. And since I gave up coffee, not caffeine, I can’t even brew myself a cup of decaf. Only two more weeks!
We kept our windows open last night, and it was still hot! My boyfriend emits heat like a furnace, I tell you.
That breakfast look sooo good! And easy to make too, now I just need to buy a ramekin
Happy Friday!
I call my boyfriend “the human furnace!”. It’s crazy how warm he feels to me all the time. It’s nice in winter… but in summer, I’m always saying “get back over to your side!”. ha,ha.
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I feel the same way about coffee. I know it’s not necessarily a bad thing (in moderate amounts), but I hate relying on it to get me through the day!
Yum! I have a buckwheat bake in my oven RIGHT NOW and it smells sooooo good. I think it’s the cinnamon.
This is only my second time trying it, so I’ll have to add some fruit the next time around – that looks delicious!
Ugh– my husband has been out of town, which always throw my sleep schedule off, so I’ve been missing sleep too!!
This looks so great! Beautiful pictures!
My husband laughs in his sleeps alot. I feel like it happens almost every other night! I hate sleeping in the heat. We live in Montana and we never NEVER never turn on the heat. I know it sounds crazy, but our little apartment keeps itself pretty warm. My husband uses like 4 blankets and I still only use 1.
Aw, the recap of your sleepytime had me laughing. Ryan says i’ve talked in my sleep before (Actually, about great harvest bread dough!!!,…apparently I was asking if we could go buy some GH dough at the store so we could come home and bake it — so odd!!! I guess it shows how much I love GHB, haaa!).
Haha – yum!
Can you send me one of those delicious gf buckwheat cakes please!!
Happy Friday
i’ve been sleeping horribly lately too! jet lag…
I also hate being addicted to coffee, and am having a major love/hate relationship with it right now. I love it, but I know it’s not great to drink 2…ahem, 3…ahem, 4..cups a day. Trying to cut down to one! UGH.
I don’t hate being addicted to coffee. I try to savor every sip. I try not to drink more than 2 cups a day, though.
I can’t sleep when it’s hot either. It can be freezing, and I can still manage a good night’s sleep, but never when it’s hot!
Nothing like baked fruit for breakfast!
I will also sleep with the windows open to make the room nice and cold. I love snuggling under the comforter!
Great job to Matt for making the buckwheat bakes – I want to try them one of these days!
I’m perfectly content to be “addicted” to coffee… it’s kinda my thing.
I don’t ever feel any ill effects when I have “too much” caffeine throughout the day, or even late in the afternoon/evening – but I definitely notice when I DON’T have it. I know plenty of people are sensitive to it, but I can’t imagine!
French press coffee on weekends, and lattes (hot or iced – weather/mood dependent) made at home, to-go, on weekdays. Ooh la yum.
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Your placement “Life is good… enjoy the little things” just made my day 100% better!
Looks so yummy! I am moving next month into a new home with an amazing kitchen (my kitchen no is the size of a closet. So I can’t wait to try a bunch of your yummy recipes.
My fiancee talks in his sleep all the time. Once he said, “BOO” and then started laughing- all while he was sleeping. pretty funny!
Have a great day
Haha, I would freak out if I heard someone laughing in their sleep! Actually, my sister does some weird things in her sleep… like talking about historical events…
Now that is how you start Friday! It looks incredible!
That breakfast looks so yummy! I have to make plans to try to make this.
First time to post. I just came across recently and am loving your blog. Hello nice to meet you, Kath:)
This backwheat bake looks super great! I will bake this one this weekend. By the way, you seem to have cute luncheon mats with simpe comments. I love them. Where did you buy them? If you don’t mind asking.
Have a wonderful rest of Friday!
Welcome!
Most of my linens have been recent gifts from my mom and grandmother’s collections. This one was a gift from Tina @ Carrots n Cake
Thank you for welcoming me:) It’s great to hear from the writer. Awesome. Also, thank you for answering my question. Passing down family values contains more meaning than anything else. You do have wonderful family! I will check Tina’s site. You are opening my horizon. Glad I encountered your blog, which makes my days;)
Those bakes look great, Kath. Do you think they would be appropriate to serve as a dessert or are they too breakfast-y?
No I think they would make a great dessert – although they’re 350-400 calories each, so you might want to slim down the portion size or have half
Awww laughing in your sleep is fun!
I’m going to be dreaming about these buckwheat bakes till i try them
Ooh, the fruit filled one looks even better.
I think my favorite part is that you mumbled for breakfast to be ready at 7am in your half sleep, and at 7am it was. Props to Matt.
I love buckwheat bakes and I am so excited to start sleeping with my windows open.
This looks really good! I might have to make this this weekend if I have time. One thing I did to ween myself off of coffee was substitute a cup of hot green tea. It helped!
I had the biggest case of insomnia last night. Tossing and turning. I was hot. Definitely feel Matt’s pain. Wish I had a buckwheat bake to wake up to!
THis recipe says ingredients for one bake at the top, but put in 2 ramkins at the bottom. Now your Banana bake recipe is double the ingredients listed here and does say for two bakes. Which is correct?
Sorry – I put the measurements for one. That should just be one ramekin (we did make it for two though)
I feel ya about preferring it to be cooler when you sleep. The other side of the pillow is always colder! And laughing in your sleep is so funny!
I even make you laugh in your sleep! I love it!!!
Haha- that is SO funny about your random dreams and words throughout sleeping…. did you eat chocolate last night?
Love your take on Ashley’s blueberry buckwheat bake. I’ve made that one and it was deeeeelicious.
Have a good day!
I like your breakfast linens- that’s been my goal lately. I remember when I was a kid and everything was sooooo great! And your breakfast looks great!
I can’t sleep when it’s hot, either. Actually…I have to have it cold in my room and then I bundle up in a big comforter. I feel bad because that’s wasting energy, so I’ve been trying to change it..but a warm room is just so uncomfortable!
You sound like such a funny sleeper! I wonder if I do anything weird in my sleep… I should leave a tape recorder on one night to find out!
Haha! You are right about laughing is better than crying. I once cried in my dream and when I woke up, my cheeks were moist with tears. Yikes!
I love Ashley’s breakfast ideas. Looks scrumptious
These look and sounds great !! What a wonderful way to start the day. I can’t believe a ‘sweet breakfast’ sounds good to me ?!
bizarre dreams! I have them too
I don’t know that I could ever give up coffee – I know I’m addicted, but I like to laud the benefits of coffee as an excuse. Giving up advil (and all painkillers) was the most difficult thing I’ve ever done – sometimes I wonder if it was all worth it!
I always love your photography, but they are beautiful today! I’m sorry things were too hot last night, but I think I’d give anything to see 69 degrees during the day here right now!
Sorry to hear about the tough night’s sleeping. Maybe it’s stress from the bakery and/or all the traveling making it hard for your body to adjust to one sleeping location? Either way, hope that turns around soon!
Definitely a great breakfast to wake up to though… love the toppings!
I think bakery stress could definitely have something to do with it
I sleep with a window open most of the year because I like our bedroom to be cool. 60 or below is good. I totally understand about the caffeine withdrawal. I am trying to give up Diet Coke. I was used to having two 32 oz. cups a day and I went cold turkey 10 days ago. I have felt very lethargic a lot of afternoons but the headaches seem to be gone. I just miss the taste but I’m afraid to just cut back and drink one now and then or I think I will have to start all over again. Traveling next week and that will be a real test for me.
You can do it!!! Could you add some seltzer for the bubbles?
Agreed!
Drinking seltzer is how I got off Diet Coke a few years ago. The cold bubbly-ness does it for me, for sure.
I tried Perrier and didn’t like the taste. Is there a seltzer that does not have a mineral taste?
Yes. Go to your grocery store and look on the soda aisle. Do you have Harris Teeter? Their store brand is good. Lots of flavors.
That was nice of him to have it ready for you both! Those buckwheat bakes look perfect!
Life is good! And we “should” enjoy the little things. Live each day as if it were your last! And one saying that I heard someone say that makes me laugh is “Indulge until you buldge.” I do not live by that motto, though. Can we say… Unhealthy!
Have a nice weekend =)
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I love that napkin, so beautiful! And the breakfast bake looks delicious
But I hope you get some sleep tonight!
Laughing in sleep is way much better than crying
That looks so good!
Buckwheat bake looks delicious! I love how random dreams are, and that we do things we don’t even know we’re doing :s haha
All your pastel linens and dishes and bowls are getting me more and more excited for Easter
Matt rlly spoils you- I’m jealous!
I am glad I am not the only one dreaming about food. I had a dream about brussell sprouts the other night and was really craving them when I woke up. My husband thought I was so weird!
I stopped drinking coffee in December. Just switched cold turkey to black tea and now I’m trying to switch to more green tea. I was AMAZED at the difference in my energy level – it was much more consistent throughout the day and I didn’t get the 3-4pm “slump” like I did before with coffee. I still miss the taste from time to time, but when I drink it now, I can have like, 3 sips and then my body starts going crazy! I never knew I was so sensitive to it until I stopped. I say try it – if there’s no major difference you can always go back
I don’t know if I get a slump, but I have noticed a DECREASE in energy (particularly on my runs!) since cutting back. It could be coincidence, but it also could be the coffee
I’d love some ramekins too- that looks awesome!!
Hey Kath, that looks really delicious!
And the fruits inside it, yum!
All I can say is yum! And addition of fruit inside really is making this a dessert for breakfast!
Coffee is so delicious, and such a pleasure for me that I could care less if I’m addicted! I love it, it makes me happy and it may help prevent/delay cognitive decline! Or at least that’s what I choose to believe… that and I wouldn’t have survived my intern year without it
I’ve tried to stop drinking coffee so many times for no reason other than I feel addicted to it. I love the taste, I love having something warm to drink each morning, and I love the tiny boost it gives me! Good to know I’m not alone in the thought process of “wait this isn’t bad for me, why do I care if I’m addicted?”
i like that linen! and i love when people talk/laugh in their sleep…it cracks me up.
The buckwheat bake looks delicious! I have an insulin resistance issue and was wondering if you knew, or could guess, the carb and sugar amounts in the base recipe (without the toppings)? Thanks!
Ashley did a nutrition analysis on her site for one of them (and the nutrition doesn’t vary too much) and it was 44 grams of CHO: http://edibleperspective.com/2011/01/buckwheat-in-a-bowl/
Thanks!
LOL, I love hearing what I talk about in my sleep. Sleepy talk is hilarious.
Those buckwheat bakes sure look tasty!
BAhahaha, I love that you were muttering “edible perspective” while half sleeping. Amazing.
Your buckwheat bake looks over the TOP!!! I’ll have to try digging it out..how fun! Such pretty photos!!
This looks delicious!
I have definitely laughed in my sleep a few times. Once I even woke myself up from laughing! It gave me a good chuckle the next morning
OMG. Those buckwheat bakes look AMAZING. I’m deeefinitely checking for buckwheat groats in the Whole Foods bins next shopping trip… I assume if I’m going to find them anywhere it’s there!
This looks amazing! I think I am going to make this but with oatmeal
I love your fruity twist on these! I’ve yet to find buckwheat groats in Canberra but I also haven’t scoured all available health stores
Oh my gosh, I love it! My bf tells me I laugh in my sleep about once a week! I wish I knew what was so funny!
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I’m the same way with coffee – so easily addicted. I’ve been doing decaf for around 3 years now. Probably not the same health benefits of the real stuff though.