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Barton Seaver - Open Office Hours

This event was on Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern

Join Chef Barton Seaver in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to ask anything – from cooking techniques to c… Read More.

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Question:

Could you take us through, say, a week of your breakfasts. I am stuck on oatmeal or muesli.?

— Mitch Miglis

Answer:

So I learned a lot about breakfast from a book called the Whole Foods Kitchen Amy Chapman, I think has some of the best ideas for breakfast and it's a lot of muely style things but a lot of dishes that are soaked overnight like a mutually would be But that are multiple multiple multiple variations in different nut milks different flavored not milks. All sorts of different things. I was so impressed with that book at home in the Whole Foods Kitchen or the Whole Foods. Kitchen is the book that I really really love her first one any Chapman. One of those Instagram ads, I don't spend much time on social media. But I did. I did fall for sure one of those Silicon Valley Tech, bro. I'm not gonna eat any real food I can just subsist on. superfood shakes born in the jungle That's literally it says born in the jungle on the back. How silly am I? Anyway, I think they're delicious. These are cachava brand. Listen, I got a two year old. I got a six year old. I've got kindergarten. I've got daycare. I have a work day that starts immediately after I drop them off because I have to be home when they get home and thus my work day is curtailed on the back side. So I have a lot to do in the mornings and a lot, you know principal parents here and I love it that way so. Shake like that is I reach for that more times than I would care to admit. But I also do oatmeal that's it's what I have and be perfectly honest with you. I cook a couple of days worth of oatmeal and I just leave it in the pan. And to be perfectly honest with you, I leave that pan on the stove. I won't do it for three days. I'll do it for two days. And because I'm going to bring it back to a boil the next day and it's already made so. I am not suggesting this that Rouxbe is not telling you to leave food on your stove for a couple of days and keep eating it. I'm just giving you an anecdotal at talk about what I Actually do in life because you know what, I live in reality and whatever it is that allows you to get through and survive reality is deeply, okay. So it is right. We should normalize parents surviving because that's what it is. with joy and all of that but other things that I really do like is we do have a lot of fresh fruit around and that is To me. It's a really easy way. It's really easy to fall into the sugar trap at breakfast because you're hungry. And when we're when the body is hungry, it's most susceptible to desire for sugars, which is the fastest easiest cheapest form of calories. Right? And so I find that the sugar trap in the mornings is when it's the hardest because you just it's so easy as well as the world wants to tell you sugary things for breakfast. So having fresh fruit around is a really just having that apple to pick up having those strawberries there some grapes. Excuse me. It's really good way to for me to buy some time in order to get to the better more healthful stuff.
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Barton Seaver

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