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!
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I’m going to try your harvest oatmeal (only with oat bran) for breakfst tomorrow. It sounds so perfect for fall! I can’t wait to make it with homemade applesauce, but that will have to wait until I pick apples 🙂
Cream of wheat is my favorite as well and recently I have switched from dairy to rice milk. Your bowl of goodness is beckoning me to prepare it! I have a hand held blender so all I need is the whole wheat COW and I shall set your plan into motion!!!
I gotta get one of these hand gadgets again! I had one when we were living in Scotland because I used to puree all my soups like that. I think your idea to use it with oatmeal is brilliant! Yummy…and coming into cooler weather (hopefully)..I will be eating a lot more hot breakfasts.
Another great way to enjoy my favorite breakfast cereal! 🙂
While I like Cream of What – I just am not feeling this one. Though it is funny to imagine you with your hand-blender – I know how fun those are – I just want to blend everything when I get mine out!
A whole container of applesauce? Like, a whole jar? Or do you mean those little single-serving cups? In any case, it looks so yummy and comforting 🙂
Wow, that is so cool! I definitely need to try this out! Oh, and I’m all for chocolate sneaking in anything and everything :o)
Man, I’m actually feeling a bit guilty I didn’t have oatmeal for breakfast today (can I restart the day and try again?!)! You make it look (and sound) so delicious!!
yay for fall and all things harvest-y hehe ^_^
That sounds awesome. I really want to get a hand blender. SO much more convenient. And I just looove my stuff creamy.
i haven’t had CoW in years.
Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint. Forever in debt to your priceless adviiiccceee…your adviiiicccee…sorry your nirvana comment got Smells Like Teen Spirit stuck in my head.
Anyway, I love how so many of your recipes start with “Little Vegan.” You should make a Little Vegan cookzine. It’d be so cute.
katie’s harvest oats recipe + oat bran + maple syrup = amaaazing!!!
thanks katie, it is my favorite combination! 🙂
good idea! applesauce, yum.
Andrea–
Hmmm, yeah, chocolate just seems to somehow sneak its way into lots of areas of my life, especially where food is concerned! I wonder how it’d taste in spaghetti…
No, don’t worry; I’m not going to try it!
for some reason i think this is the secret photo for your giveaway…hmmm