caprese avo toasts

Day 11 Crazy Sexy You – Caprese Avo Toasts

Caprese Avo Toasts

Hey there. I hope you had a great Fourth of July holiday. I spent mine with my best friend on South Beach. She has a great place with four balconies and a wonderful view of the fireworks from various parts of South Florida. We counted nine different fireworks displays in total.

Unfortunately, the holiday celebration was a disaster for my Crazy Sexy You journey. It was a meat fast. There's no other way to put it. She had fried chicken, ribs and shredded barbecue pork. In addition, she had these wonderful berry mojito drinks, a big ol' fantastic bottle of French red wine, these adorable mini-cupcakes, and these to- die-for chocolate fudge filled cookies. How was I supposed to resist that? All I can say is that I need to start over today.

Kris Carr teaches us that one bad day should not make a bad week. Up until dinnertime yesterday, I'd been a good girl. For example, on Tuesday, the scheduled  breakfast was Caprese Avo Toasts. Basically, it's mashed avocado with salt and pepper and sliced tomatoes on top with a drizzle of balsamic vinegar on two pieces of gluten-free toast.

As a child, I ate tons of avocado. My father is from Panama, so it was a cultural thing. I ate so much avocado that, as an adult, I was sick of it. I was tempted to substitute the avocado toast for another approved beakfast recipe (I did that on the last round of the Crazy Sexy You program), but this time, I decided to give it a try.

I fully expected not to enjoy the recipe but I actually enjoyed it very much. For some reason, the salt, the fresh tomato, and the balsamic vinegar made the avocado somehow less pungent. It was a great melding of flavors and textures. I guess the moral of the story is: “don't knock anything until you try it.” It's a cliché, I know, but it's true. I plan to put Caprese Avo Toasts into my regular breakfast rotation.

Today, I got to eat one of my favorite breakfast recipes in this program – Almond Butter Banana Toast. Yum!

I'm going to work out today to make up for last night and drink lots of fluids to wash out the alcohol and meat toxins I put into my body.  Then we'll see what we shall see.

Peace,

LJ