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Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough Oatmeal
NYC makes being vegan a breeze. Most restaurants have an option (and many have more than one). The city also has dozens of fully vegan (or at least vegetarian) restaurants that are revered even by meat eaters.
Many establishments, particularly coffee shops, will have a vegan baked good option in their display case. For most, it’s a chocolate chip or peanut butter cookie. Now, I don’t often buy cookies because of my sugar sensitivity, but every now and then it’s fun to splurge on a vegan chocolate chip cookie.
That being said, it feels wrong to complain. What I really want is a snickerdoodle cookie. Snickerdoodles are by far my favorite kind of cookie, even if cookies aren’t totally my thing. It’s like a more sophisticated version of a sugar cookie. I love the blend of sweet and earthy with the pillowy interior. But when will I ever see a vegan snickerdoodle?
Creamy Almond Oatmeal with Cherry Chia Compote
I think I mentioned once upon a time on the blog that I disliked frozen cherries–that they were flavorless and tasted like ice.
I withdraw that comment.
I recently purchased frozen dark cherries from Trader Joe’s. It was an impulse purchase, and I wasn’t entirely sure what I was going to do with it. However, everything that I have made with it (it goes beautifully in banana soft serve) has been a treat. I think my initial experience with frozen cherries a few years ago had been with another brand that simply wasn’t good. (Thanks, Trader Joe’s. You da best.)
Mango and Roasted Grape Oatmeal
As crazy as my life has gotten, it’s very important to me to maintain some sort of regularity on this blog. I loathe how “one recipe a week” has become so commonplace. I find this unacceptable, and I want to do better.
Thankfully, April is coming up. April is this beautiful month in the education world where you have a week off for Spring Break, you receive the blessing of multiple days of state testing (aka NO LESSON PLANNING), and for the most part, the students have your procedures and routines down to an art form. Last year, I began my fitness regime in April simply because I suddenly had the time (and energy!) to make it work.
Matcha Oatmeal
This may not be the best way to open this post, but I’m not completely “won over” by matcha. I’m not even exactly sure what it is. ^_^ It’s a green tea powder with a very unique taste. You can find it in lattes (green tea latte), in candy, and in ice cream. My favorite is the last one.
I decided to buy some to try for my oatmeal. As I did my research, I learned that quality matters. Matcha powder can be pretty pricey, but don’t settle for a cheap one. Read the reviews before you buy; some can have an off-putting flavor.
Snickers Oatmeal
IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!
After a week vacation (hooray for mid-winter break!), it’s a little painful to head back to work on my birthday, but at least it means I have plenty of people to celebrate the day with.
Blood Orange & Toasted Coconut Oatmeal
If you cannot tell from my intermittent posting this month, my hours have been pretty tied up lately. I began my grad school classes two weeks ago, and the workload that accompanied them has stolen all my free time. Although the classes themselves recharge me during the week, the readings and assignments just burn me out more.
I’m like black toast. Charred broccoli. The crusty black layer of oatmeal that sticks to the bottom of the pan.
The easiest thing to give up would by my blog, considering it’s the one with the lowest stakes. I’m not paying thousands of dollars for it (unlike my grad school classes), and no children are relying on it for the quality of their future (unlike teaching). However, I refuse to do that because it also happens to be the thing that brings me the most joy.
Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Oatmeal
It should be no surprise to anyone who reads my blog that peanut butter cookies speak to my soul. Chocolate chip cookies are great, and snickerdoodles are another great choice, but I just can’t pass up a peanut butter cookie!
This is similar to my Peanut Butter Cookie Baked Oatmeal. I think the baked version tastes more like the actual cookie, but this recipe is lovely when you don’t feel like waiting 20 minutes for oatmeal to bake (which is how I feel 80% of the time).
PB&J Oatmeal Parfait
As you saw last week, Claudia (aka the Breakfast Drama Queen) and I are doing a little experiment. She agreed to take one of my oatmeal recipes to inspire a non-oatmeal recipe, and I would take one of her non-oatmeal recipes to inspire an oatmeal recipe.
Here is my creation! It was inspired by Claudia’s PB&J smoothies, which does not actually contain jelly, but instead, has raspberries in the “jelly” layer. Claudia often creates multiple flavors for her smoothies and layers them together, so in honor of her, I did the same with my oatmeal.
Fudgy Banana Steel-Cut Oatmeal with Peanut Butter
So you love my Fudgy Banana & Peanut Butter Oatmeal, eh?
Well, what if you want to make a steel-cut version?
…Or what if you want to feed a friend (or a “friend” 😉 ). Or maybe a whole crowd. Or yourself…for a week!
Here you go. The ingredients are shown for two servings, but it will work perfectly to double everything for four servings. Yay!
Blood Orange and Berry Oatmeal
ALERT!!! It’s orange season! It’s cara cara orange season! It’s blood orange season!
This might surprise you, but oranges are one of my absolute favorite fruits. I don’t eat them much in my oatmeal (I find their flavor is muted in porridge), but they are one of my favorite fruits to eat as a snack.
With beautiful blood oranges back in season, I was determined to make another recipe. This time, I discovered the trick to making better citrus oatmeal: zest.
I should have known this was true, considering how much I love lemon extract, which is imitates lemon zest far more than lemon juice. I’m not sure why it took so long for me to figure this out. All I need to do was zest one of the orange halves into the oatmeal, and it changed the game.
