I am speechless.
And that doesn’t happen often.
I can’t believe the response to the post on My Big Decision.
Over 300 of the sweetest, most heartfelt comments (and facebook messages, emails, and tweets), and each one made me smile more than the one before it. No wait, that’s not true. They all made me smile the same: a ton! I thought about the kindness involved for someone to take time out of his or her day in order to make someone else’s day brighter. We all lead such busy lives, yet so many of you stopped to wish me well. Reading your comments, I actually started to cry. (I feel silly admitting this, but it’s true!) Thank you all so much, from the bottom of my heart.
Today’s breakfast mirrored my bright and happy mood:
And it tasted absolutely delicious:
Chocolate-Strawberry Hugs Oatmeal
- 1 serving raw oats (40g)
- 1 cup frozen strawberries (100g)
- salt (I used very scant 1/4 tsp)
- about 1 cup water or milk of choice (240g)
- 1-3 tbsp creamer (I used 15g Silk)
- chocolate chips
- sweetener: I didn’t use any, but most people will want some.*
*In place of sugar, you can use the Melted Banana Trick.
Procedure: The night before, I microwave the oats, salt, and water in a large pyrex measuring cup for 3 minutes (2 minutes if using quick oats). Then I leave it in the microwave for 5 more minutes before transferring—uncovered—to the fridge. Next day, I add the other ingredients, stir, and microwave again until the berries melt into the oats. You can even blend it all together if you wish! The Magic Bullet is great for this. As for the chocolate… well, everyone knows that strawberries and chocolate go great together, right? So add some chips, nibs, powder, whatever!
I feel so classy eating oatmeal from a pretty glass.
Classy is the new weird.
After breakfast, I lounged around in my pjs sweaty running gear (sorry, tmi?) and read incredible comment after incredible comment.
Seriously, I could not get over all the incredible comments!!
This guy caught up on some reading, too:
And then he took a nap.
For tomorrow’s recipe post, how about “readers’ choice”?
Your Choice:
- PB&J Blondies
- Rice Crispy Treat Babies
- Banana Bon Bons
- Flourless Chocolate-Chip Cookies
Or a surprise? Tomorrow’s post will be for whichever recipe gets the most votes.
And thank you all again!!!
Defnitely the blondies! PB&J all the way!
Sorry, “definitely”
Flourless chocolate chip cookies!!!!
PBJ Blondies! Love!
flourless chocolate chip cookies 🙂
PBJ!
Hi Katie, I would love to see the pb and j blondies. But anything you post is always gobbled up by my, both mentally and usually physically too, if I have all the ingredients :).
What a beautiful photo of your oats…classy…yes! I luv all your recipes…I’ll take any! 🙂
Aww you deserve it. 🙂
Flourless chocolate chip cookies!
I have a question about this recipe. I just made coconut chocolate chip baked oatmeal and i love the texture of it (and the flavor). would it be possible to bake this or will it not work? I’m not a huge fan of the texture of regular oatmeal so if baking it is possible, i would much rather do that.
You could always try! I’d love to hear how it turns out! 🙂
Today I had a chance to try this baked. I sort of combined your coconut chocolate chip cookie dough recipe with this recipe. I used 1/2 cup oats, a tiny bit of salt, added a spoonful of flax seed, a cup of frozen strawberries, a 1/2 cup combo of applesauce and milk, 1/4 tsp vanilla extract, a splash of almond extract, and of course i had to top it all with some chocolate chips on top. i think this is my new favorite type of oatmeal. the liquid from the frozen strawberries gave the oatmeal an amazing flavor and the chocolate chips with the strawberries was delicious. i’m going to experiment with blackberries tomorrow and see how that turns out. i’m so glad i found your website. i used to eat oatmeal all the time and i got so sick of it because i didn’t know what to add to it to make it taste better. now i actually enjoy eating it thanks to your recipes 🙂