Pancake Truffles

This morning’s breakfast was epic. Seriously.

 

 

I could get used to waking up at Caitlin’s house. She made me a cup of coffee and a slice of PB Toast shortly after I woke up.

 

 

We headed out on a beautiful 4.5 mile run before showering and packing up for the airport. I wish I would have had my camera during our run, the scenery was so pretty! I have missed my running buddy so much and it was nice to run with her again! (The hills were killer, though.)

 

Caitlin’s “Mission to get MegaNerd to move to Charlotte” is underway!GAH!

 

I have been begging Caitlin to make me her special Pancake truffle recipe ever since she last created it. Lucky for me, she did!

 

 

Holy. Freaking. Yum. I seriously felt like I was eating dessert for breakfast!

 

 

 

Folks, these are not low-calorie. She basically rolled up a piece of banana in a mixture of pancake batter, oatmeal, and almond milk. Then, she rolled the ball around in some crushed cinnamon almonds.

 

I told Caitlin in my official review: “You should take this recipe off the Internet and sell it.  Open a breakfast joint called CaitlinPancake and just sell variations of pancakes and pancake truffles.”

 

We are now currently sitting next to our gate at the Charlotte airport. I picked up a brown rice California roll for lunch.

 

 

It was the perfect pre-flight meal since it was pretty light!

 

 

We then stopped at Yovana for some yogurt. I wanted something on the healthier side, so I got a plain vanilla with fresh raspberries.

 

 

Time to board the plane! Chicago, here we come!

 

😀

 

❤ MegaNerd

Charlotte (CasaHTP)

I have only been in Charlotte for one day and Caitlin is already trying to convince me to move here. 😀

 

We had some time to kill before we headed out for our blogger meetup, so Caitlin took me and my mom to Trader Joes, and showed me around uptown Charlotte.

 

Once we got back, we sat on her porch and split a pear cider.

 

 

Along with some Trader Joe’s Cinnamon Almonds, which are SO good!

 

 

Not too much later, we met a lovely group of Charlotte bloggers and readers for dinner!

 

 

We met at Luna’s Living Kitchen, a vegan and mostly raw restaurant.

 

 

I ordered the Sprouted Quinoa-Kamut Veggie Burger along with 90% of the other bloggers at the table.

 

 

I honestly had NO idea what to expect, but the “burger” was delicious! I am scared of “raw” food, but it reminded me of falafel.

 

The sprouted grain bread was topped with hummus, tomato, the burger, guacamole, and onion.

 

 

It also came with a fresh salad that included greens, tomato, raspberry, sprouts, and orange. YUM!

 

 

I ordered the fresh homemade ginger ale, made with club soda, agave nectar and fresh ginger. It was SO gingery! I had to mix half with plain club soda. Otherwise it was good!

 

 

After dinner, we headed over to a pub for some brew.

 

 

When Caitlin and I get together, there will definitely be box-facing involved.

 

  

 

The fun didn’t stop here! We headed to yoforia aka HEAVEN!

 

 

Somehow, even though I wasn’t hungry, I made room for frozen yogurt.

 

 

 

That is true dedication right there.

 

So far, Charlotte seems like an awesome place to be! Only one hour from my mom’s house, Caitlin lives here, and I already have new friends! Oh, the possiblities…

 

Time to get moving! We are off to run and then leaving for Chicago.

 

❤ MegaNerd