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Baked Apple Walnut Oatmeal

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26.2.13

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It’s that time of the year again, folks; It’s girl scout season! That means plenty of cookies to buy and devour. You’re either lucky or unlucky when it comes to finding them. When you’re most craving some Samoas, there won’t be any girl scout in sight. You’ll drive to all of your Targets, grocery stores, and school campuses to see if there’s a table stationed anywhere, but you’ll always drive away disappointed. Welcome to my life.

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Lucky for me, I have a niece that just started her first year in girl scouts. I have to be the good auntie and buy boxes from her, of course! That makes my life so much easier because I don’t have to walk around stalking troops. Not that that has stopped us from buying boxes from anyone else. My DB came home from school with a box of Thin Mints that we could rip open immediately. No waiting necessary.

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Not only that, but working at the Y has its perks. There are at least three kids in every grade that are determined to win that mini Ipad by selling 3,000 boxes.

By the way, that’s ridiculous. How can one child sell 3,000 boxes?! They probably know 30 people in their lives. That means everyone they know would have to buy 100 boxes from them. That’s like when I was in elementary school and we tried to sell rolls of wrapping paper. They always enticed us by having the “money hurricane machine.” Thinking back on it, I have no idea what the big prize was. Now, they have Ipods, Ipads, Shuffles, and all those electronics, but that certainly didn’t exist when I was in grade school. Does anyone remember?

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Either way, I never sold anything. My parents would buy two rolls of wrapping paper so I wouldn’t feel so bad and then call it a day. I never walked door to door asking neighbors to buy from my catalog. My parents would kill me if I ever did that.

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Here’s an easy breakfast meal that you can make for the week. Just store the portion you don’t eat in the fridge and warm it in the microwave whenever you want it. You can also make this bake for guests. It’s nutritious, has a pleasant cinnamon spice taste to wake you up, and can be served alongside eggs if you want just a little sweet treat to finish your breakfast.

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The oatmeal is soft without being gooey or mushy. If you want it for dessert, serve a piece with a scoop of ice cream. I promise I won’t tell anyone. :)  From Sweet Pea’s Kitchen.

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Baked Apple Walnut Oatmeal

Ingredients

  • 2 cups uncooked quick-cooking oats
  • 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/3 cup cranberries
  • 1 tablespoon chopped walnuts
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 1/2 cups fat-free milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 apple, grated
  • 2 tablespoons butter, melted
  • 1 large egg, beaten
  • Cooking spray

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 375° F. Spray an 8x8 inch pan with cooking spray.
  2. In a mixing bowl, combine oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, cranberries, walnuts, and baking powder.
  3. Gradually stir in the milk, vanilla, grated apple, butter, and egg and mix until well combined.
  4. Pour into prepared pan, leveling it out.
  5. Bake for 20 minutes and serve warm.
http://lovintheoven.com/2013/02/baked-apple-walnut-oatmeal.html

5 comments categories: apple, berry, breakfast, nuts, oatmeal

Apple Pie Parfaits

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28.1.13

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Do you have a dream book that you keep tabs in every morning? I don’t, but I certainly have a recurring nightmare that I get probably once a month. You might laugh at me for this, but I have a fear of losing my teeth. It happens differently in every nightmare, but it happens.

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Sometimes I dream that I’ll be eating something and then POP! A tooth falls out. Other times, I’ll wake up and have no teeth. Not a single one. Maybe it’s because I think that a smile is a huge part of someone’s personality, and I’m terrified of losing mine. That doesn’t even make any sense.

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I’ve never looked into the meaning behind dreams. Some people do that religiously. Dream books, symbolism, the meaning underneath it all… everyone interprets dreams differently.

So, for the sake of blogging, I googled it. “What does losing teeth in your dreams mean?”

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What did I learn? Well, apparently the losing your teeth dream is very common. It’s also the most googled dream search. They say it happens when you’re stressed and have anxiety over something going in your life. Oh, it’s also a sign of depression for the person having these dreams.

Oh Google, your answers always amaze me. I’d like to think that I have a pretty good head on my shoulders and don’t stress easily. Que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be…

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Now that makes sense why I never looked into the meaning behind various dreams. It’s all a bunch of gibberish. No offense to those who are totally into it. To each their own.

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I was craving a parfait from Mcdonald’s one night (I get those fruit and yogurt parfaits on a weekly basis) and decided to whip up one of my own. I didn’t have blueberries or strawberries on hand, but I did have apples. Hard apples would have been boring on plain vanilla yogurt, so I chopped it up and cooked them down in some cinnamon and sugar to make these apple pie parfaits. Top it with some whipped cream and nilla wafers, put it in a fancy cup, and you’ve just turned breakfast into dessert.

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Apple Pie Parfaits

Ingredients

  • 2 apples, peeled, cored, and finely chopped
  • 3/4 tablespoons butter
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • slightest amount of salt
  • vanilla yogurt
  • whipped cream
  • 2 Nilla wafers, crushed

Directions

  1. In a small saucepan, completely melt the butter over medium-high heat. Add in the apple and lemon juice. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
  2. Add in the brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt. Cook for an additional 3 minutes, until the apples are tender. If you like your apples really soft, cook them for longer.
  3. Let the apples cool completely by putting them on a plate and placing it in the fridge for a couple of minutes.
  4. To serve, spoon apples over the vanilla yogurt (I layered mine). Top with whipped cream and Nilla wafers.
http://lovintheoven.com/2013/01/apple-pie-parfaits.html

1 comment categories: apple, breakfast, dessert

Crockpot Apple Cinnamon Steel Cut Oats

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25.11.12

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I kind of disappeared into the chaos of traveling during the holidays and wanted to make the most of it spending time with loved ones, which explains the lack of updates after my pumpkin recipes.

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What are your thoughts on steel cut oats? Love ‘em? Hate ‘em? For me, it was a long time before I even gave them a shot. Finally, I gave in and decided to give them a try. I was the same with oatmeal; I never ate it as a child and only started eating it when I moved out of my house. I don’t know why that is, we just never had any oatmeal around the house. I assumed oatmeal was strictly used for cookies.

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Now, as a flight attendant, I eat instant oatmeal about three times a week. It’s convenient, fast, and does a fairly good job on curbing your hunger.

Steel cut oats became popular a couple of months ago and pretty much appeared out of nowhere. All of a sudden, it was on breakfast menus, stocked on your grocery shelves in a variety of brands, and used in everyday recipes.

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I actually first tried it at Panera because the picture of it looked so good. Sure enough, it didn’t disappoint me. The crusty brown sugar topping that Panera uses gave it the sweetness that I needed to eat these steel cut oats. If they were plain, I’d never be able to muster a bowl down into my belly.

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I figured it was probably ridiculous to pay four-five bucks for a bowl of oatmeal, so I bought some steel cut oats at the grocery store and went home trying to find a recipe I’d like for myself. They take a lot longer than regular oatmeal to cook, so I threw it into the crockpot the night before I went to bed.

I woke up to a lovely smelling kitchen and breakfast ready to eat. The edges burned a bit and the oats were a little dry, so I’d lower the crockpot time by two hours next time.

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Crockpot Apple Cinnamon Steel Cut Oats

Ingredients

  • 1 cup steel cut oats
  • 2 cups milk
  • 1 1/2 cup water
  • 3 tsp cinnamon
  • 2 apples, chopped
  • 2 tsp stevia
  • 2 tbsp sugar in the raw

Directions

  1. Put all your ingredients except for the sugar in the raw into the crockpot. Give it a good stir.
  2. Sprinkle the sugar in the raw on top.
  3. Cook on low for 6-8 hours.
http://lovintheoven.com/2012/11/crockpot-apple-cinnamon-steel-cut-oats.html

1 comment categories: apple, breakfast, crockpot, oatmeal

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