Breakfast Time!

Hey y'all!

Have you guys ever heard the saying "breakfast is the most important meal of the day"? 

I bet you have, and I bet that most of you peeps do not find the time to have a prober breakfast. I mean sleeping those extra 20 minutes is way more appealing than preparing breakfast... right?

Well, I have checked the web for some great breakfast recipes that I can prepare the night before already and just take with me and consume on my way to work.

Let me tell ya, there are a lot of good things out there... but one recipe caught my attention asap and frankly, I have made it several times now.... Egg muffins.

I just love these. They are easy to make and you can always change the recipe by adding new veggies or spices to them.

Here is the recipe:

Egg Muffins by Kalyn

• Ingredients:

• 1 heaping cup finely diced ham (use ham with less than 10% fat for South Beach Diet)
• 2/3 cup finely grated low-fat cheese (I use Costco Four Cheese Mexican Blend)
• 1/2 green bell pepper, finely diced
• 1-2 thinly sliced green onions (optional, but recommended)
• 12 eggs, beaten well
• 1 tsp. of any seasoning 

Instructions:

* Preheat oven to 375F/190C.  

* Dice ham and green pepper and slice green onions.  In the bottom of the the baking cups layer the ham, cheese, green pepper, and green onions, dividing each equally among the 12 baking cups. 

* Break eggs into a bowl or large measuring cup that has a pour spout, then beat eggs and Spike Seasoning with a fork until they are well combined.  Pour eggs over the other ingredients until the muffin cups are nearly full, but not quite reaching the top.  (I pour some egg in each cup, let it settle, and then pour more until the cup is nearly full.)  Take a small fork and gently "stir" to distribute the ingredients in the egg mixture.

* Bake 25-30 minutes, or until the egg mixture is set and starting to brown slightly.  (The last few years I've been liking them more browned, but if you don't like them as brown as I do I would start checking after 20 minutes.) 

* Egg muffins will keep well in the refrigerator for at least a week.

Vienna...

Hey guys!

Oh My God! I am so sorry for not blogging for ages. I know... not good! I know that. But I have been so busy with moving and trying to settle in that I just didn’t have time to share my wonderful new experiences with you guys. You guys probably understand, as most of you are moving around a lot etc.

Anyway…  Now that I finally have Internet at home, I am back… and that means that you peeps will be bombed with amazing blog entries about Vienna and about my new life here.

I don’t even know where to start, as Vienna has just been amazing.

Blueberry

As most of y’all know I left Hamburg on the 1^st of January. I was actually planning on flying to Vienna, however, airberlin, told me a week before take off, that rabbits were not allowed on the plane. (Dogs and cats are.. but rabbits, hamsters etc. aren’t)…. So I had to book a train ticket, which meant 9 hours sitting in a train…. Ugh… I was not in the mood for that. But I really wanted to take Blueberry (my bunny) with me and thus I decided to do it. Hey, 9 hours in the train couldn’t be that bad right?!

Well once I have arrived in Vienna, I was super tired of course, but I couldn’t resist going to the Heldenplatz. This has become a tradition…. Always when I am in Vienna I go to the Heldenplatz first. It is amazing and so powerful I think. Standing there and seeing the Hofburg, the Rathaus, the Museuams Quartier…. As the picture shows… Magical!

Heldenplatz

So when I stood in front of the massive building, it finally hit me. I then realized that I really left everything in Hamburg and that I am in Vienna…. I started to feel a little scared, hoping that this was not the wrong decision.

To be honest, the last couple of days in Hamburg were like going through hell. I couldn’t sleep and I was crying several times, as I was just scared. The fear that leaving everything behind and not knowing what was really going to happen was crawling up in me. Several of you probably know what I went through…. - The feeling of not knowing what will happen and whether this is the right decision, can cause sleepless nights.

But then again, I know that I can always return to Hamburg. However, I knew that for me that wasn’t an option right now. I wasn’t happy there (job etc.) and thus I had to do something about it. Packing my bags and starting a new chapter was the way to go….

And until now, I haven’t regretted a single moment. Of course I feel a little lonely, when I come home after a super day at work and my boyfriend is not there. But then we Skype and I think about all the wonderful things that are currently happening to me here and a smile plants itself onto my face 

Rathaus Vienna

Last weekend my boyfriend was here in Vienna and of course I showed him all the touristy things like Schönnbrunnen, Hofburg, Heldenplatz Stephansdom etc. He loved it! He totally understood why I adore this city so much. The things that I love: coffee, fashion and culture can be found everything in this city. Especially coffee! Vienna has the most amazing coffee places that one can imagine. I will post about my favorite coffee places later this week. 

As you guys know I can talk non-stop about coffee I will return to my actual story, which is 

about my boyfriends visit… On Friday we went to Figlmüller and had the famous Schnitzel with Weißer Spritzer. It was amazing. Good thing was that we’ve reserved a table. Because when we entered the place, it was packed and everybody was waiting for a table. … So if you would like to eat the biggest and best Schnitzel in Vienna make sure to reserve a table at Figlmüller!

Schnitzel at Figlmüller Vienna

But of course there are many more restaurants, cafes and other places that you have to see, when you are here. I will post about all these things and about all of my experiences, so make sure that you will check this blog regularly.

So this is it for now….

But don’t be too upset, I am already writing my next blog entry.

Xoxox

M