Step away from the sugar!
One of my favorite ways to sweeten oatmeal is naturally, by melting in a banana. The banana gets all caramelized, and the oatmeal tastes amazing!
The Melted Banana Trick
Step 1: Cook up the oatmeal or another grain as you normally would.
Step 2: In a separate bowl, melt however much banana you want in the microwave or on the stovetop until it’s all caramelized/gooey. This adds so much flavor to the oatmeal! Now, stir the melted banana into your oatmeal.
Optional Step 3: Take your hand blender or Magic Bullet or regular blender and blend everything together so it’s a nice pudding-y consistency. (You don’t have to follow this step, but it mixes in the caramelized banana nicely.)
Below, as part of this recipe: Strawberry Hugs Oatmeal.
Or, for a super-delicious breakfast, try combining oatmeal tricks:
Use with the popular Voluminous Oatmeal Trick.
The oatmeal does sound delish! I love all those blended recipes 🙂
Great that your mom decided to forego the turkey! Yay!
And a BIGGER YAY for your date! Hope you have a fabulous time!!
Thanks for the recipe!
Can’t wait for Product Review Week!
Have fun on your date!
What consistency should the batter of the crepe-cake have? Is it watery? And what is the tell-tale sign they are done? Thanks!
Great recipes girl! I hope the date goes well! How fun!
Ow ow – have a fun date!
Thanks for the wonderful recipes, too! I love the little crepe cakes.
Happy Thanksgiving!
OMG katie!! i can’t wait to hear about your date. i love talking about this stuff haha mainly because i never go on dates
Thanks for the recipes.
Watched the uncut version, very very sad and would hate to see where they are doing thousands per hour. Palin is really scary, thank goodness for the World she didn’t make it.
Wishing you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving.
have a wonderful time on your date tonight! hehe
and good for your mommy! aww!
have a wonderful thanksgiving 🙂
Anonymous—
The batter should be pretty liquidy. Try it with the 1/4cup plus 1/8cup liquid. If, after trying that, the crepes are too thick for you, then you can add more liquid, but I’d start with that amount first so you don’t add too much liquid and thus have to throw the batter out!
As for when they’re done… I guess you’ll have to experiment with this, because I don’t have a specific time of how long they take (and depending on the size, some will take longer than others). I don’t know that there’s really a tell-tale sign either… well, except if you go to lift the cake up with a spatula and some of the batter sticks to the spatula, it’s not done yet! If the batter doesn’t stick, then any time you want to take the cake off is fine :o).
Andrea—
I told my roommate to enjoy her Thanksgiving and eat lotsa cranberry sauce… but she responded that she didn’t like it! How can she be human???
Halie—
Let me know what you think if you get around to trying them :o)
that video wanted to make me puke and cry at the same time. Though it’s good to have things like that because it gets people to reflect that otherwise wouldn’t. I think it’s awesome that your mom is swearing off turkey for a day.
forgot to mention, good luck on your upcoming date!
If you want a crepes’recipe, here is one I made a few weeks ago: http://www.plaisirvegetal.fr/2008/11/18/simple-comme-des-crepes-vegan/. I have to translate the recipe to share it abroad.
Looks tasty! Can’t wait to try it!
MY favorite breakfast is:
1 cup of my home-made vanilla soy milk thrown in the blender with a frozen banana and some strawberries. Once it’s blended up, I pour it in a bowl and pop it in the freezer while I shower and get ready for work. By the time I’m all set, it’s the texture of soft-serve icecream, a pretty pink color, and totally delicious!
My favorite breakfast? A bowl of oatmeal, cooked with strawberries, bananas, brown sugar, and soymilk, with blueberries and plain soy yogurt on the side. Yummo.
This is a great giveaway – granola is amazing. Thanks!
My favorite breakfast is a whole wheat waffle with powdered sugar, and a whole bunch of fresh berries and banana slices!!