Eggs and toast get eaten for breakfast in our house very often. It’s one of our favourites. Over-easy eggs are one of the finer things in life in my opinion.

But what about adding some fresh greens to the mix? I’m someone who feels the need to add fruit to my breakfast. I think it’s partly for taste and partly psychological – as though having something fresh is getting me started on the right foot. Explanations aside; it’s just what I like to eat.

Adding greens to an already favourite breakfast adds that kick of freshness, especially when they’re massaged with lemon juice and oil. Ooh and poach those eggs instead for über-health!

Runny Eggs Over Greens and Toast

Ingredients

• 2 slices of whole grain toast
• butter
• 2 eggs
• handful of arugula or greens (I used dandelion greens for this occasion)
• parmesan (optional)
• sea salt & pepper
• olive oil
• fresh lemon juice or a drizzle of vinegar

Directions

1. Put bread into toaster. Add a drizzle of olive oil to small frying pan and heat on low-medium.
2. Once heated, gently crack two eggs into the pan.
3. In a bowl add a handful of greens, a drizzle of olive oil and a touch of lemon juice or vinegar. Season with salt and pepper. Add a few shavings of Parmesan cheese, if you like, and toss.
4. When you see the whites of your eggs are cooked and the yolk is still runny turn off the heat.
5. Put toast on a plate, butter it, and place the greens on top. Then finish with the two eggs (sunny side up) and season the top of the eggs with salt and pepper.
6. Perfect, healthy, satisfying-beyond-belief breakfast :)

We spent the weekend in Duluth up in northern Minnesota, with three other couples in a big rented house. It was awesome. We were practically on the sand dunes – that bottom picture was taken right outside the back door and was our view through the huge living room window all weekend.

Those snowy sand dunes made me feel like I was on the moon – it looked like nothing I’d seen before and when you walked far out {further than was probably entirely sensible} you could see the waves rolling in under the ice. Crazy.

Hope you had a wonderful one!

Happy Friday lovelies! First and foremost, thanks for all the lovely comments on my last post. Seems like many of you share an affinity for coffee. My kind of people :) As we enter the weekend, I wanted to share some things that have been inspiring me this week – have a great one!

1. As if I needed another reason to go and buy a baguette. {via the style files} 2.Nanaimo bars spotted on everyday musings. Yes please. 3. British company Toast‘s Spring ’11 catalogue sets my heart a-flutter. 4. These organic cotton tea towels have me feeling all wistful for spring. 5. Vodka and pomegranate juice has been my cocktail of choice recently. Highly recommend it :) 6. White ceramic love 7. My lovely friend Emily gave me these gorgeous measuring spoons from Anthropologie for my birthday. Love, love, love. 8. Want. 9. Emily also bought me these fun and pretty Anthropologie milk bottle measuring cups – what a lucky lady I am!