Popular Porridges
Tag Archives: sweetened by dates
Chai-Spiced Pumpkin Oatmeal with Persimmon
Do you love Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal? Could you eat it every day and never get sick of it?
OR do you like it, but you’re looking for a slight change? If you fit in the latter camp, I have the recipe for you. This chai-spiced porridge tastes quite reminiscent of pumpkin pie, but the addition of cardamom gives it a distinctly different experience.
And yes, I am aware that chai literally translates to tea. But we Americans use chai to refer to a specific tea: masala chai. (more…)
Glühwein (Mulled Wine) Oatmeal [Guest Post]
Hi oatmeal lovers! I am back in New York City after a three-week excursion to visit friends and family. If you’ve been following the blog, you know that I’ve been featuring many guest posts to keep the blog active throughout the summer despite my travels. Although I’ve been eating simple oatmeal every morning, I didn’t really have time to create new recipes, make them look pretty, and take nice pictures of them. So I outsourced. 😉 I found Tiffany’s “Glühwein” (aka mulled wine) Oatmeal on Instagram and thought it was brilliant.
Sweet Potato and Date Oatmeal [Guest Post]
[The following post and recipe was submitted by reader Victoria.]
Hi everyone!
My name is Victoria, I’m French and currently taking a gap year, first in NY (where I met Lauren [picture below!]) and now in Barcelona, before starting university at McGill in September in Montreal. I am also the girl behind the food here —> @healthymonkey_ ! (more…)
Pumpkin Cranberry Thyme Oatmeal
Who has Thanksgiving leftovers?
Not I. 🙂 But if you do, I have a recipe for you to try!
As you know, I’m a sucker for thyme. I basically took my Pumpkin, Apple, & Cranberry Oatmeal and made it ~super classy~ by adding thyme. (This recipe does not include apples, but you could obviously add that if you want.)
Carrot Halwa Steel Cut Oatmeal
I sometimes receive requests from readers for a particular recipe. Many times, they are ideas that I have already considered but just haven’t figured out how to make yet. Sometimes, they are recipes that I immediately set off to create and appear on the blog within days. And then there are ideas like this one, for which I only have one response: “I don’t know what that is and have no idea how I would make it.”
Considering I’ve only eaten Indian food four times in my life, my knowledge of Indian cuisine is minimal. I have never eaten “Indian dessert” and have absolutely zero concept of what it’s like or what it should taste like. Thus, when a reader begged me to create a halwa recipe, I had to reject her, claiming that I had no idea what it was or what it should taste like.
Pumpkin, Apple, and Cranberry Oatmeal
Pumpkin. How can I make more pumpkin recipes? What else can be done with pumpkin? These are the questions I ask myself twice a day.What spices and herbs go well with pumpkin? What fruits pair well with pumpkin? What different forms of oatmeal have I not tried with pumpkin?!
The result of this never-ending search is today’s recipe. Seeing how well apples paired with sweet potatoes, I knew they’d be smashing with pumpkin. Of course, cranberries are my go-to dried fruit for autumn recipes, so I threw those in as well. Aaaand bam, cue the world’s coziest breakfast.
(more…)
Pumpkin Pie Steel-Cut Oatmeal
For over a year, I had to stomach the fact that my Salted Brownie Baked Oatmeal was my #1 most viewed recipe. I mean, that recipe was fine and dandy, but number one?? C’mon. Not even close. I could name thirty recipes that I’d pick over that one.Luckily for me, the most wonderful thing happened about a month ago. As always, August and September ushered in the yearly pumpkin craze, and my Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal received a great deal of love on Pinterest. Out of nowhere, this recipe vaulted into the #1 spot and surpassed the Salted Brownie by thousands of views. COOL. I feel like my Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal is a much better representative of my blog than the Salted Brownie.
I love my pumpkin pie recipes. Certainly, they’re not my MOST favorite, but they’re in my Top Ten. You might think that I’d be satisfied with a stove-top, baked, and overnight version, but no, I’m not finished. Now that I’ve fallen in love with steel-cut oats, it just made sense to add another variation to my pumpkin pie family.
7 Comments
POSTED IN: big batch, dessert lovers, ginger, pie lovers, pumpkin, steel cut, sweetened by dates, winter squash
POSTED IN: big batch, dessert lovers, ginger, pie lovers, pumpkin, steel cut, sweetened by dates, winter squash
Mexican Hot Chocolate Oatmeal
To all of you who turn your noses up every time I stir bananas into my recipes where they don’t belong, you are in luck! With great self-control, I resisted the mashed banana. I did it for YOU.
Obviously, regular hot chocolate is brilliant. I never realized how much I loved hot chocolate until I moved to the East Coast and experienced the brilliance of L.A. Burdick’s and City Bakery. These places serve up rich, thick, chocolate goodness that just coats your throat with luxury. What makes Mexican hot chocolate unique is the addition of cinnamon (and occasionally other spices). I included an optional pinch of cayenne, for I never turn down an opportunity for a little fire!
(more…)
Chocolate Hazelnut Oatmeal
When was the first time you experienced Nutella?I had never even heard of it until my freshman year of college when I was taking French 101. A number of my classmates had birthdays within a week or two of each other, so one day, our professor walked into class carrying a stack of crepes and a jar of Nutella. Bon anniversaire, indeed!
Tiramisu Oatmeal
[Update: I feel the need to nudge you in the direction of my newer overnight version of this recipe. It’s simpler and tastier. Give it a try!]
I once told you that peach cobbler is my favorite dessert. Another time, I told you it was pumpkin pie. Well, both of those statements are only partly true. Actually, it’s a three-way tie…with tiramisu.
In fact, when my birthday rolled around, what did I chose for my “birthday cake?” Yep. Tiramisu. From Vivaldi Cafe in Greenwich Village. There was live jazz. 🙂
(more…)
