Hey everyone!! Back at it again with this Weekend Engagement. This time I'm sharing what I usually have for breakfast.
I’ve mentioned in other posts that I have celiac disease, so I have a few food restrictions, plus, I live in Cuba 😜. My breakfast is pretty basic and as adapted to my circumstances as it gets.
Usually, I eat a slice of toast from bread I make myself. I make it with gluten-free rice flour and add sesame seeds to improve the flavor. It doesn’t turn out like wheat bread, but I like it and I’m used to the taste by now. My daughter likes it a lot too and is always up for a slice 🤣.
I almost always have the bread with 1 or 2 scrambled eggs and a jug of natural yogurt, made locally. I buy it from a local farmer who has cows and produces small amounts of yogurt and cheese, so some days I don’t have any. On those days, I have fruit juice—could be papaya, mango, melon, guava, whatever I have at home at the time.
I usually keep frozen fruit in the fridge so I don’t have to go out looking for it. Fruit sales in our country are seasonal. You rarely find any outside its harvest season, so I opt to keep it in the freezer. Of course, nothing beats fresh fruit, but making my own juice even with frozen fruit is a better option than the industrially produced and packaged kind.
And to seal the first meal of the day, there’s nothing like a good cup of Cuban coffee, grown, roasted, and ground by my mother’s hands.
So all in all, I'd say my breakfast is simple, gluten-free, mostly homemade, and it works perfectly for my lifestyle here.
Thanks for reading, have a lovely week, everyone.
The images and text are my own. I used DeepL for the translation.
