Bird Seed Breakfast

Well I ate like a barbarian last night. You know that potroast that I cooked up? Rich and tender, just like the movies. Just a few notes about that, btw, it took aproximately 6.5 hours to cook to perfection and I heated it back up to 350F for about 40 minutes before cooling enough to serve. We ate it with a shredded beet salad doused in a little citrus/ walnut oil dressing and sesame seeds, and some mashed potatoes with butter.

Before eating I made us take a few sips of water in which I dissolved Apple Cider Vinaiger, raw honey and sea salt. I found this to be refreshing, but that's probably because it's basically a homemade Powerade, and I finally worked out yesterday. Shorty-pie thought it was a little extreme, but I explained that since we drank a bunch of coffee at lunch, we better rev up our stomachs before digging in to the feast of meat. This concept goes back to the simple fact that protein digestion requires stomach acid, and digestive juice.

Anyway, this morning I drank a glass of water with some lemon squeeze, boiled the copper kettle and assembled my breakfast cereal. This is the bird seed part:

In a little saucepan/ pot, drop 1 tbsp of whole Teff grain,
1.5 tbsp of whole Amaranth,
and 2 tbsp of whole Millet(food grade-not bird seed K?)
1tbsp of sunflower seeds, 1 tbsp of pepitas(green inner germ of the pumpkin seed)
cover with water,
leave on 3/4 heat (electric stove btw) for enough time to drink your coffee, check email, put on some clothes. Don't burn it though...stir it a few times, you know.
When it's cooked, the grains will still be slightly crunchy and they are just a bowl full of entertainment. All tiny bubbles, mixing and melding, the tan colored amaranth and millet blending with the dark brown little Teffs. Plus, these grain come from the traditional diets of people from Ethiopia to Inca. PLUS, these grain are so full of vitamin and mineral power that you get a serious edge on everyone else who ate a bagel and a coffee.
I forgot to mention, the "coup de gras" of this little dish, is the dollop of plain yogurt and squirt of agave syrup on top. If you just dont have agave, how bout maple syrup...oh, that would be lucky.