Another recipe that uses the blender/food-processor/hand-blender technique:
Creamy & Cozy Oatmeal
1/2 cup rolled oats (or one serving of your grain of choice; the photo is of whole-grain Cream of Wheat)
1 container applesauce (the little 113gram containers, not one entire jar!)
½ tsp cinnamon
milk of choice (I use almond milk)
dash salt
Other optional ingredients that might be nice:
raisins, dates, nuts, chocolate… oops, how’d that last one sneak onto the list?!
Cook up a serving of oatmeal, using milk of choice in place of the water. Add the applesauce and cinnamon to the cooked oatmeal, and mix together. You could stop here, and it’d taste delicious… BUT if you *really* want to experience oatmeal nirvana, take this next step: Using a hand-blender (or transferring the mixture to a regular blender or food processor), blend all the ingredients together. The resulting oatmeal is so super-creamy it’s amazing!
Sounds delicious. Love the CoW – I still have to go out and buy the whole grain kind.
Cream of Wheat was one of my favorite cereals when I was little – I’m so bitter I didn’t bring some back to France with me!! It’s so yummy!
Yum! I need to try the whole wheat CoW too. And I have a quart of homemade applesauce in the freezer – maybe it’s time to put it to good use…
wow..i need to get on this hand blender technique! the oatmeal looks soo scrumptious. 🙂
that’s such a great idea!!! i didn’t even know they made whole grain cream of wheat!!! do i live under a rock? yes, i do. the name of that rock is valdosta, ga where they get all of the “cool stuff” about 3 years after it comes out. haha
happy humpday ccv 😀
I think I would have to do this with the Cream of Wheat. Love the texture!!!!
I will have to try the whole grain version!
YUM! It looks so creamy and comforting!
I hereby declare you the queen of Oatmeal and Cream of Wheat!
creamy + cozy?! yes please!
thanks, CCV! 😀
Believe it or not, after all the oatmeal I’ve eaten, I still haven’t tried applesauce oatmeal. Yours looks so good, now I’m going to make some!
Thanks for the birthday wishes! It was a great bday, besides going to class all day : /
I’ve never had Cream of Wheat before. I need to get some and through it in the food processor. My blender is terrible!
I need to try blending my cereals, mmm this recipe looks delish!
Mmmmm! Btw, thanks so much for revealing your secret to creamy grains. My host family actually has one and now I’ve got so many new things to use it for! I hope they don’t mind 😉
wow, this looks SO GOOD! Add a handful of walnuts and a spoonful of peanut butter and I’m sold!
Yummy! That sounds awesome and perfect for the fall weather!
i’ve never tried applesauce in my oatmeal but paired with cinnamon and creamy almond milk sounds so freakin good!!! 😀
i love the word ‘cozy’ too!! and i love that chocolate just crept its way onto the list 😉 that happens to me far too often lol
i’ve never tried applesauce in my oatmeal but paired with cinnamon and creamy almond milk sounds so freakin good!!! 😀
i love the word ‘cozy’ too!! and i love that chocolate just crept its way onto the list 😉 that happens to me far too often lol