Healthy Pancakes? Nooo... YES!

Healthy Pancakes? Can it be!? Yes! And no, they don't taste like cardboard, they are actually delicious! The secret? Oatmeal, greek yogurt and bananas. Abbey and I had these for breakfast yesterday and they were too good not to share. I got my inspiration for these delicious pancakes from Pinterest but made a few tweaks with what I currently had in my Fridge. Follow this link for the original Biggest Loser recipe, or read on below for mine.

Hash House A-Go-Go

If you ever find yourself in San Diego, jonsing for some amazing breakfast (or even lunch) , look no further than Hash House A-Go-Go on 5th Ave in Hillcrest, famous for huge portions and ridiculously long lines that go surprisingly fast.

Now I've been to HH a few times, and I have NEVER EVER been disappointed, not once. Not only is the food amazing, the portions HUGE, and the plating beautiful, it's a great place to take someone who's never been, just to see the look on their faces when their food comes. Honestly people, it never gets old.

Now just a heads up, the pictures below are from a few different trips over to HH, were not REALLY that big of pigs, I swear.

Charlie and I stopped in for lunch once (they serve breakfast all day), I was craving their French Toast, and I sadly found out that the French Toast is pretty much the only breakfast item they DON'T serve all day.

He wanted lunch I wanted breakfast, neither of us were hungry enough for our own plate, so we opted for the Sage Fried Chicken and Bacon Waffles, which was just recently featured on Man Vs. Food on the Travel Channel.

The plate comes PILED with bacon waffles, and TWO huge chicken breasts, pan fried golden brown, topped with fried leeks, drizzled with a maple reduction and stabbed through the center with a heftily aromatic spring of fresh rosemary. Yes, that's ONE serving. Thankfully for those of you who want this, and don't live near a HH, Food Network tackled this recipe, and I'm sharing it with you.

Another breakfast favorite of mine are their Farm Benedicts. HH's benedicts are unlike ANYTHING you've ever seen, tried or made at home. Seriously, it's pretty epic. Below is the Sage Fried Chicken Benedict.

It's served on a bed of mashed potatoes, a huge housemade biscuit, and topped heavily with scrambled eggs, fried chicken, bacon (which I got on the side) fresh spinach, ripe tomatoes and griddled mozzarella cheese then topped with chipotle cream sauce.

On our last trip, Charlie and I met Adam for breakfast since he was in town the evening before, and HH was my first choice when he asked where we should go for breakfast.

Adam opted for an Indiana Favorite, Andy's Sage Fried Chicken w/ maple reduction, 2 eggs, bacon mashed potatoes & biscuit.

I finally got my French Toast. It comes dipped in Banana Cinnamon Cream, grilled until golden brown and then topped with a griddled banana, sliced lengthwise, toasted pecans, powdered sugar and maple syrup. TO. DIE. FOR.

The BEST BREAKFAST in Atlanta

Every time I'm ever in Atlanta I have to go to The Flying Biscuit Cafe for breakfast. It's a rule I have. I make no exceptions to this rule. Ever. It is literally THE BEST BREAKFAST in Atlanta for the price, selection and overall yumminess of it. Even before I had ever moved to the ATL, I had friends and clients tell me that when I visited to make sure I stopped into The Flying Biscuit for breakfast, because it shouldn't be missed. Ever. They had no idea how right they were.

One of my favorite breakfasts there is the Egg-stravaganza. This time I opted to switch it up a bit and get The High Flyer instead. Oddly enough, Brian went for the Egg-stravaganza instead of his usual High Flyer. We know what we like, and we hardly stray.

The High Flyer; two eggs scrambled served with their signature chicken breakfast
sausage (OMG!), their AWARD winning grits, a FAMOUS FLYING BISCUIT...

...and an organic oatmeal pancake with warm peach compote

Egg-stravaganza; two eggs scrambled (with cheese) served with their signature
chicken breakfast sausage, crisp turkey bacon, grits and flying biscuit...

...plus whole wheat french toast topped with raspberry sauce & honey creme anglais.

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Brian reminded me that I forgot to mention those little tubs of what looks like BBQ sauce. That's their nummy Apple Butter and its so insanely good. It tastes like Christmas. I bet you're looking at the screen thinking WTF? But when you try it, you will totally agree. It's all appley, and cranberryish with cinnamon and nutmeg and all those yummy flavors of the holidays on a big giant fluffy biscuit. Mmmm!

It's always sunrise in Philadelphia

There is nothing worse when traveling than an extra long, unnecessary layover in a strange city. Unfortunately I had one that lasted slightly over 3 hours after a red eye flight into Philadelphia, fortunately Alex, who helped design the Epicuriosity Logo lives in Philly, which means I had someone to visit with, joke with, and most importantly have breakfast with.

The Philadelphia Airport Marriott has a sky-bridge from terminal B directly into the hotel, making it totally convenient for hungry travelers to spend copious amounts of money in the one restaurant in the lobby, The Riverbend Bar & Grille.

Alex and me forcing early morning smiles.

Alex was ever so nice as to meet me there for breakfast at 7am. That's right! 7-freaking-am. I told him if he were to come and keep my company for a couple hours, breakfast would be on me and he obliged despite the early wake up call.

To help us wake up, Alex got some coffee, and I had some jasmine green tea, as the sun rose over the Philly skyline.

Jasmine Green Tea and Coffee (with 2 sugar in the raws and cream).

I ordered off the "healthy" menu and got the "Crunchy French Toast". It's dipped in an egg beater batter and then rolled in crushed corn flakes.

Crunchy French Toast with sliced fruit.

It came topped with sliced strawberries and bananas and a side of low calorie syrup.

Knott's Berry Farm's Low Calorie Syrup.

Alex got just regular old french toast. I'm sure he liked it very much as he cleaned his plate, but come on, mine looks soooooo much better right?

Alex's boring old french toast.

I had to catch my plane shortly after and had to rush off to go through security again, but it was a great finish to my crazy layover in Philly, and now I've got a craving to find some good crunchy french toast recipes and try this at home.

Thanks again Alex for keeping me company.

You are a super awesome time waster and breakfast date!