Owen's First Homework

Owen had his first homework assignment on Monday to create a family penant (with your family). The directions were to trace everybody's hands, put your name somewhere on the penant and decorate any way you wanted. It was a lot of fun to have a project to do together although I'm very curious to see what other penants looked like. We weren't sure how much influence we were supposed to have so we decided to not have any:)

Cranberry Coriander Oatmeal (modeled after the flavor in these scones but minus the orange because I forgot to buy one)

Apple Cinnamon Steel Cut Oatmeal - if you check out the link for this recipe you'll see why I wanted to try it. Plus, I was looking for another recipe using steel cut oats. I need to remember to make time-intensive recipes the night before because I think I ate an entire meal's worth of food while I was waiting for this oatmeal to be done. Worth it though because it was super good and much better than the other apple oatmeal I made.

PB Banana Oatmeal

I've probably made something like this before but since I'm still recreating quickbread flavors I had to include this. You're probably getting sick of reading about my oatmeal. Well, I'm not done yet! I just committed myself to a very large canister of oats. I'll try to put up some pictures of my children though too.

Mango Oatmeal

I tried to recreate the flavors of one of my favorite quickbreads into this oatmeal so I put in ginger, cinnamon, raisins, mango and a bit of lime juice. Pretty good!

Beer Pancakes

Turns out beer pancakes are a horrible idea. No way I could have seen that one coming...

This oatmeal was good though. No beer involved, just some maple syrup.

Deceptive Oatmeal

I'm continuing on with different oatmeals and making smaller portions of them! This way I don't have to eat the same kind for a week since no one else in the house is participating. This recipe was from Deceptively Delicious and it was sooooo good. Maybe my favorite so far. The secret healthy ingredient was sweet potato puree. I'm definitely going to make this again.
Recipe Here

Apple Oatmeal

I liked the apricot oatmeal so much that I decided to find another recipe for the slow cooker and came across this one. It was alright but I'm hoping the leftovers will be even better and the flavors will have time to meld. You couldn't really taste the apple. It came out a nice caramely color since I accidentally dumped a whole lot of cinnamon into it! Also, I changed the recipe a bit-no butter, steelcut oats instead of regular, and 3 1/2 cups of water + 1 cup of soymilk instead of 2 cups of milk.
Recipe Here

Apricot Oatmeal

This oatmeal was made in the slowcooker overnight and it was really yummy. It was actually really nice to wake up and have a warm breakfast ready to eat. Owen is a little wary of my oatmeal concoctions after trying the first two but I convinced him to take a bite and he admitted to liking it too.


Recipe Here

Strawberry Almond Oatmeal

I figured out how to make oatmeal look pretty! Hide it under lots of toppings! This oatmeal was not very exciting or enjoyable. Water+oats+cinnamon+strawberries+almonds=blah. I ended up throwing in some raisins to up the sweetness. I've only done two different kinds so far but I think using milk instead of water makes a huge difference.

Oatmeal!

So I've done 30 days of different breakfasts (twice!) and it's a whole lot of work so I decided to do something that requires a little less planning. I'm going to have a different oatmeal every morning (except for the mornings where I have oatmeal leftover from the day before which happened to me the first day...) until I get sick of eating oatmeal. One thing I didn't consider was that oatmeal doesn't photograph particularly well, I'll have to work on that.

This was an overnight oatmeal made with steel-cut oats. I can't figure out where I got the recipe from but it was 1 cup of steel-cut oats, 2 cups milk, dollop of honey, cinnamon and raisins. Mix it all together and let it sit in the fridge overnight. Then you just pull it out of the fridge and eat it! It was very chewy but I still liked it.