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Plum Pineapple Rosemary Breakfast Cobbler
Let me tell you the history of Lauren and rosemary.
Herbs are not used in traditional Midwestern cuisine. Most dishes consist of copious amounts of Campbell’s Cream of Chicken and a solid pinch of salt. I didn’t have any concept of fresh herbs until my mom started growing her own chives and putting them on roasted sliced potatoes. (more…)
Ambrosia Overnight Oatmeal
Ambrosia reminds me of my high school days working in the deli of my hometown grocery store. Yes, your dear Lauren used to stand behind a counter and weigh super thin slices of smoked turkey, bread and fry chicken, and gobble down leftover chicken thighs at the end of her shift. I was basically a walking tub of grease for two years. To this day, I can’t stand the smell of a deep-fryer…and most fried foods, actually.However, our deli counter also offered a variety of salads. The standards were, of course, potato salad and macaroni salad, but there was also always a couple “sweet salads.” The Midwest is infamous for its…erm…salads (Exhibit A and B). I think Ambrosia is actually “a thing” outside of the Midwest, but it was definitely one of the occasional offerings at my humble little deli.
Any excuse to take out my martini glass, yes?
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Tropical Oatmeal
This recipe is so obvious that it’s almost embarrassing that I haven’t posted it yet. I have so many tropical-themed recipes, but why not combine them all into one fabulous breakfast?
Mango, pineapple, and coconut were obvious choices, but my decision to include banana was a last-minute addition. I don’t know about you, but I always forget bananas are a tropical fruit.
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POSTED IN: 5 ingredients or less, bananas, coconut, kiwi, mango, papaya, pineapple, tropical
POSTED IN: 5 ingredients or less, bananas, coconut, kiwi, mango, papaya, pineapple, tropical
Pineapple Sunbutter Oatmeal
Have you tried sunbutter*? I’ve always thought that sunbutter was only reserved for the people who can’t have peanut butter because of allergies. Nobody chooses to eat sunbutter, right??
*It’s a “nut” butter made from sunflower seeds.
My perspective changed last year when I voluntarily purchased a jar of sunbutter from Trader Joe’s. Why? It was one of my 10,003 attempts to manage my peanut butter addiction. If I had a crappy version of peanut butter, maybe I wouldn’t binge on it…? Wrong. I binged on that sunbutter just as hard as the real deal. Sure, the first spoonful was a little strange, but by the third, I found it just as addicting.
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Banana, Pineapple, and Chocolate Chip Oatmeal
Whenever I considered trying out this recipe, I would look at the name and wonder, “Why in the world would I combine those three ingredients?” Then, I would remember that it’s much like a banana split (sans strawberries, which you could obviously include!).
Banana and pineapple are great together. Banana and chocolate are delicious. Pineapple and chocolate are surprisingly tasty. Obviously the three of them together have to work, right?
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Carrot Pineapple Oatmeal
In case you haven’t noticed, I love using earthy ingredients like pumpkin, sweet potato, and carrots in porridge. These ingredients create such heartwarming bowls of oatmeal that it can make even the coldest of mornings tolerable.
The downfall of those veggies (although pumpkin is a fruit, apparently) is that they typically require an added sweetener. As you can tell from many of my recipes, I do not fear a small dose of maple syrup or honey. However, when I can sweeten something naturally, I much prefer that.
Enter: pineapple!
When I first saw this flavor combination, I was delighted. I’ve learned recently that pineapple pairs well with just about everything. I love pineapple on pizza, in salsa, and virtually every southwestern-type dish (I recently made a spicy quinoa casserole with corn, tomatoes, black beans, and…yep…pineapple!). There are few dishes I won’t try with pineapple. 🙂
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Strawberry Pineapple Oatmeal
If you haven’t already done so. . . .please check out my new recipe index at your earliest convenience! Over the month of August, I spent hours (at least 30) plugging in all my recipes (all 200+ of them!) to a professional formatter. You’ve probably noticed that my blog displays recipes differently than they used to (and you can Pin and Tweet directly from the recipe), but the other intention was to have a more attractive recipe index. So click on “Recipe Index” above and “oooh” and “ahhhh” at all the prettiness!
Once you do that, come back and try this new recipe. It’s less than five ingredients, which I think is always a plus. I really appreciate a recipe that stars fruit and only fruit. . .no expensive extracts or nuts necessary!
Pineapple Jalapeno Oatmeal
I have discovered an imperfection in Trader Joe’s. It has taken me a year, but I finally found it. Trader Joe’s does not sell individual jalapeño peppers. If you wish to purchase one, you must buy a container of them that holds SEVEN PEPPERS.
Because who doesn’t need seven jalapeño peppers at one time?!
Feeling clever, I purchased one of their “guacamole kits” instead. It contains ONE jalapeño, two avocados, some garlic, a lime, and two tomatoes. I can use the avocados without a sweat, and I can easily find an excuse to use a lime. The garlic will remain usable for weeks and will definitely serve its purpose eventually. The tomatoes, however, will be a struggle. I might try and make tomato sauce or something (I have garlic, after all!).
Fruit Salad Oatmeal
I must admit that I enjoy being a vegetarian. In the beginning, I struggled with feeling misplaced or left out, but once it fused into part of my identity, I embraced all of its challenges. Limited options on menus means I’ll be less overwhelmed (I’m very indecisive) and more likely to try something new (like eggplant!). Potlucks become a scavenger hunt and careful investigation to discover the meatless dishes on a long table of bacon and ground beef. Thanksgiving and Easter turn into challenging games I like to call “How to Make a Meal Out of Side Dishes.”
Potlucks, especially in Small Town, South Dakota, generally offer less than three vegetarian options (one of which is a basket of dinner rolls). The scalloped potatoes will always include diced ham. The quiche will always have bacon.
But there will always be fruit. Sometimes these fruits are in their raw form: a giant bowl of cubed watermelon or clusters of purple grapes. Other times, they’re mixed together in one bowl: berries and melons and grapes! Sometimes, they’re mixed together in a tasting “dressing,” like honey mint or lemon poppy seed or coconut lime.
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POSTED IN: apples, bananas, berries, cherries, grapes, melon, mint, pineapple, pomegranate, strawberries
POSTED IN: apples, bananas, berries, cherries, grapes, melon, mint, pineapple, pomegranate, strawberries
Savory Pizza Porridge
This post was updated on December 14, 2014.
I always thought this recipe was “pretty good,” but I became quite fond of it over the summer of 2014 when I moved into my new apartment and did not have a working stove (ugh). I was also only there for a few days before flying to Minnesota, so I didn’t want to invest in many groceries. Thus, my go-to meal twice a day was a very plain pizza porridge made in the microwave.
It was pretty much just oatmeal, marinara, two florets of broccoli (I was trying to make the crown last for the entire week), and some Daiya. You would think a week of that would be sickening, but instead, it strengthened my love for it. I now make this fairly regularly!
