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Maple Sweet Potato Oatmeal
I think I’ve overcome my dislike of maple syrup. I’ve recently realized that it was never maple syrup itself that I loathed, but instead the general experience of eating the classic American pancake breakfast (aka Bisquik). I hate the taste of premixed white flour pancakes, and combined with sweet syrup, I was destined for a post-breakfast bellyache. It’s no wonder I associate pancakes and syrup with misery.
On the other hand, maple syrup and oatmeal has become one of my most beloved ways to start my mornings. Not only does it sweeten an earthy porridge, but it adds an unmatchable flavor that I’ve truly come to appreciate…maybe a little too much. 🙂
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Sweet Potato Gingerbread Oatmeal
Sweet potatoes are so dreamy. They can be silky and creamy, or fried and crunchy. They can be salty and packed with herbs, or sweet and packed with spices. I do love me some sweet potato oatmeal.
This recipe is quite different from my other gingerbread recipes, mostly because I allowed sweet potatoes to be the star. It seemed pointless to mask the sweet potato flavors completely since I already have gingerbread recipes, so I intentionally elected to make this more of a “gingerbread-spiced sweet potato” recipe (and I’m pleased with the results).
10 Oatmeal Recipes for Thanksgiving Leftovers
I know I haven’t posted a new recipe since Tuesday, but I decided it was vital for me to spend this week relaxing and exploring the city with my sister, who is visiting from Minnesota. Instead of posting a new porridge today, I created a round-up of all the recipes you could make using some of your potential leftovers from Thanksgiving (which, by the way, is my FAVORITE holiday…even as a herbivore!).
I have so much to be thankful for…seemingly more so than previous years! I’m thankful to have “made it” in this city. I’m thankful to finally be a teacher. I’m thankful for plant-based options popping up more and more at restaurants around the city. I’m thankful for peanut butter on a genuine NY bagel. I’m thankful for this blog and the joy it brings me every week, as well as the love and support given to me by Country Choice Organic. I’m thankful for sauteed kale (because JEE-ZUSS it’s so good). I’m thankful for warm fleece jackets, hot tea, electric blankets, and space heaters. I’m thankful for my family, friends, and everyone who reads my blog (YOU)!
Recipes for Thanksgiving Leftovers
Do you have leftover chestnuts sitting in the fridge? I don’t know about you,
but I don’t know many uses for chestnuts. Putting them into a creamy, chocolaty porridge
seems like the perfect solution to me!
Didn’t use all the pumpkin puree for the pies? Mix it into this recipe! You could use
either dried or fresh cranberries, or (my new personal favorite) cranberry sauce!
Okay, fine, so it’s not “oatmeal,” but these little baked gems are a unique
way to use up those few extra sweet potatoes.
If chocolate isn’t your thing, use your chestnuts in this flavorful recipe. The best part
is that it goes beautifully with cranberry sauce stirred in the top!
Did you serve squash at your table? This savory porridge uses butternut squash, but
any fall squash could work here. It’s like risotto!
Extra sweet potatoes? No problem. Even if your potatoes are already mashed
and seasoned, they would probably work here as long as you didn’t add savory
flavors. I don’t think herbs, salt, and pepper would be a good match here. 🙂
This is such a fun way to use up cranberry sauce. Paired with pecan butter, it makes
such a delicious alternative to the already-wonderful peanut butter and jelly.
Perhaps you’re bored of Thanksgiving flavors and are looking for something
completely different. I highly recommend mixing your sweet potato with some oranges
for this recipe. To be honest, this is one of my favorite recipes I have for sweet potatoes!
Sweet Potato & Soyrizo Oatmeal
Looking for something savory? Try my all-time favorite savory recipe! This is one of the
few savory recipes that I love enough to make again and again!
Thanksgiving Stuffing Baked Oatmeal
Maybe you’re NOT tired of Thanksgiving food yet! This list wouldn’t be complete
without my recent stuffing-inspired recipe. This porridge is perfect if you have a bunch
of random ingredients like fresh herbs, celery, corn, chestnuts, and cranberry sauce
to use up. You can really throw in whatever you want. Potatoes are welcome!
**You can also find hundreds of other oatmeal recipes (as well as tons of other meatless recipes) on my Pinterest account! You can also like The Oatmeal Artist on Facebook. Thanks!
Thanksgiving PB and J Oatmeal (with Pecan Butter and Cranberry Sauce)
You may have thought that I had already used every possible PB&J combo. Well, you were wrong. I got fancy.
What is Thanksgiving PB&J? Thanksgiving PB&J uses pecan butter instead of peanut butter. Thanksgiving PB&J uses cranberry sauce instead of grape/strawberry jelly. Thanksgiving PB&J will blow yo’ mindz.
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Thanksgiving Stuffing Baked Oatmeal
You know I’ve never been much into holiday-themed recipes, but I’ve been alllllll about these Thanksgiving recipes lately: Pumpkin Pie, Apple & Chestnut, and all of those sweet potato recipes. I have more coming up next week, too! It’s probably because Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Food, food, food…but no commercialism!
This obsession has grown recently due to the fact that I won’t be able to enjoy much Thanksgiving food this year. As a vegetarian, I could still enjoy all my favorites: corn, squash, potatoes, stuffing, pumpkin pie, etc. Now, however, I have to accept that fact that all of these items are generally loaded in butter. Le sigh. As a result, I’ve turned to oatmeal to satisfy any Thanksgiving cravings (although I may actually make some herbie-friendly Thanksgiving foods on my own).
Orange and Sweet Potato Oatmeal
I hope nobody is getting impatient at my lack of baked and overnight recipes. My preference has always been for stove-top oats, so I will continue that trend most of the time. It also doesn’t help that I do not have a microwave (for realz), so when I heat up my oatmeal in the morning, I just throw it on the stove to warm while I do my hair and make up. That definitely wouldn’t work with a baked oatmeal!
However, I feel like I’ve pumped out some pretty fantastic recipes lately, so I will not apologize. This one uses just five ingredients and a pinch of salt–hurray for simplicity! As it turns, one orange is all it take to add a special brightness to a simple sweet potato porridge.
Oatmeal Recipes for Autumn Lovers
I can take a hint. When I asked for what ingredients you’d like to see more of in my recipes, the resounding opinion was simply everything autumn. I couldn’t agree more, which is why I’ve been pumping out all sorts of hearty, autumn goodness. Summer food is delicious, but when the temperature starts dropping slightly and everyone breaks out their best pair of boots, delving into a bowl of cozy porridge is truly perfection. This is the time of year when the “seasonal porridge lovers” join us crazies who eat it year-round. For once, everyone’s in agreement, and we can all share our love of hot, creamy, pumpkin-themed oatmeal. 🙂
Here are my favorite and/or most popular autumn-themed oatmeal recipes. Plus, since everyone lurrrrves my autumn recipes, I capped myself off at ten recipes instead of five. (And yes, there will be pumpkin.)
I didn’t know what to expect the first time I put sweet potato
in oatmeal, but this was my first experiment, and I’d say it turned out
pretty swell!
in oatmeal, but this was my first experiment, and I’d say it turned out
pretty swell!
The stove-top version is pretty stellar, too, but there is something
about this baked style that really nails the comforting experience of eating
a slice of my grandma’s apple pie.
about this baked style that really nails the comforting experience of eating
a slice of my grandma’s apple pie.
My pumpkin pie recipes are a reader-favorite. If steel-cut isn’t your
thing, try the baked, overnight, or stove-top version.
Because some days are pancake days.
The first time I made this, I almost died. My taste buds
could barely handle the incredible blend of flavors. I would
recommend this to even the strongest hater of oatmeal.
could barely handle the incredible blend of flavors. I would
recommend this to even the strongest hater of oatmeal.
I refuse to drink any sugary Starbucks or Dunkin’ version of this concoction,
but I’ll certainly enjoy the healthy oatmeal version!
but I’ll certainly enjoy the healthy oatmeal version!
Apples and sweet potatoes both blend well with the same earthy spices,
so why not combine them?
so why not combine them?
This baked bowl of glory may not be explicitly fall, but what is more
cozy and comforting than a baked oatmeal WITH PEANUT BUTTER?
Y’all know I had to get peanut butter in here somehow.
cozy and comforting than a baked oatmeal WITH PEANUT BUTTER?
Y’all know I had to get peanut butter in here somehow.
I highly, highly, highly recommend using homemade applesauce! It
doesn’t have to be a complicated process; I made mine in the microwave
in under five minutes!
doesn’t have to be a complicated process; I made mine in the microwave
in under five minutes!
Pepitas. Raisins. Apples. Pecans. Cranberries. Y’know, all those fall-ish things.
**You can also find hundreds of other oatmeal recipes (as well as tons of other meatless recipes) on my Pinterest account! You can also like The Oatmeal Artist on Facebook. Thanks!
Apple and Sweet Potato Oatmeal
I must admit that I’ve been pining to incorporate sweet potatoes into my porridge again all summer. I somehow managed to resist until the end of August (when I made my Sweet Potato & Soyrizo Oatmeal), and here I am again, writing up another sweet potato post.
What I find especially charming about sweet potatoes is its versatility. It functions beautifully in both savory and sweet recipes. Last week, I showed how to make it savory (with the soyrizo). Now, I paired it with apple and earthy apple pie spices to bring out its dessert-like qualities. (more…)
Sweet Potato and Soyrizo Oatmeal
Let’s all take a moment to acknowledge just how fantastic soyrizo (aka soy chorizo) is.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, it’s the vegetarian version of chorizo, a Spanish sausage. My first experience with it happened at my favorite restaurant in Newark, Elbow Room (now closed). It’s a specialty mac and cheese joint, and it’s the cutest little thing. They have this ridiculous vegan queso mac, made with a housemade vegan cheese sauce (meant to replicate queso fondido), soyrizo, avocado, cilantro, and fried tortilla strips. I was allllllll about that place last year.
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Savory Butternut Squash Oatmeal
It’s been a while. I haven’t posted a savory oats recipe for months. I’ve been meaning to do it for a long time, too. Every time I update my recipe index and see that one wimpy savory oats recipe, I feel a surge of motivation to give it a companion, but alas, it would never surmount to anything.
Until now!
Have you ever had butternut squash risotto? That’s what this reminded me of. It was pleasantly creamy, yet savory. The oatmeal was an excellent vehicle for the butternut squash, which is truly the star of the recipe.
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