The best two cookies are oatmeal chocolate chip and the snickerdoodle. I will fight any and all comers who disagree with this simple truth at their own great peril.
And so easy if you leave it to soak in the cooking liquid overnight in a bowl in the microwave. I read the soaking reduces phytic acid in the oats; phytic acid allegedly hinders the absorption of calcium. I use water for the soaking liquid. Milk users probably should leave the mix in a cool place.
Also, you can buy a box of instant oatmeal, where the packets have little eggs in them, but when you add hot water, these eggs turn into little candy dinosaurs
Oatmeal has a low glycemic index: unlike regular carbs, the LCI carbs are absorbed slowly into the blood stream. Oatmeal also helps reduce cholesterol, it binds with cholesterol in the intestines and helps keep LDL "bad cholesterol" from entering the blood stream.
Anything you might do with rice will work, or things you might use in an omelette or on baked potato. My #1 fav is cooking it with some gochujang and then melting in some cheese and green onions and sesame oil for a Korean inspired oatmeal. Egg optional.
I'll agree with the people who say oatmeal itself is too bland and just a vehicle for better toppings and flavors when they explain how that's different from, say, pasta
I can’t. Plain rolled outs are pretty meh.
Pinhead/steel cut are better, if only because the texture adds interest, but toppings improve all oatmeal. See also rice, kasha, grits, polenta…
Lol, I'm finally an "adult" bc I started eating oatmeal on the daily a few months back. But man, everyone says "it sticks with you!" Yes, yes it does bc it is paste. I eat paste for breakfast now.
Add 110 g rolled oats to 1.25 cups of boiling water, then reduce to medium heat for 10 min
While cooking add one banana (sliced) and 75 g of frozen blueberries
Add one tablespoon of vanilla extract and two dashes of cinnamon
Add 2 tablespoons of Chia seeds
When finished add to 147 g of Greek yogurt
Interesting. I've been a real oathead for a while and never done a savory one, outside of meatloaf. I may have to try the stove top savory with some broth
Protip: mix up a bunch of uncooked oatmeal with some almonds, chia seeds, craisins, wheat germ, and other such things to taste and you got yourself some muesli. Perfect with Greek yogurt and fresh fruit or as overnight oats.
I love it (Bob’s Scottish Oatmeal) with maple syrup, heavy cream and a dram of Dalwhinnie Winter’s Gold, just like it’s served at the Caledonian in Edinburgh 🤍🏴
oatmeal with banana and coconut yoghurt or banana and a good splash of chocolate milk unless you want to make the nurse at the diabetes clinic come over all peculiar then it's a slash of milk and dark brown sugar or golden syrup
It keeps you so full and energized too! Plus since Trump take egg, it remains a nutritious and affordable breakfast staple. Add green yogurt for protein. Perfect
Put the blueberries in a microwave safe bowl. Put about a capful (1 tsp) of balsalmic vinegar over them. Microwave for 30 seconds. Stir into cooked oatmeal.
I love a savory oatmeal. I do it bi bim bop style, first cooking it with plenty of pepper and 1 part oatmeal, 1 part milk, 1 part chicken stock. Then add some crumbled up bacon, caramelized onions, some sort of greens(mustard, kale, chard) and then a little cheese and a runnied fried egg.
yup. Lots of pepper. That's for steel cut oats which tale a long time. Quick oats or rolled oats will likely require less. But I only use the steel cut oats for this recipe in general. Also known as scottish or irish oats. Bobs Red Mill Golden Spurtle, usually or McCanns. Want to stir that.
Had oatmeal for breakfast yesterday morning. Having oatmeal for breakfast this morning. It is in fact my default breakfast food, though I do switch it up a couple times a week for the variety of it all. Good stuff, though younger me would recoil in horror at the very notion of eating it at all.
Totally agree. Once a week for breakfast, been doing steel cut oats in chicken broth with onions, garlic, spinach, cabbage, pieces of breakfast sausage, and poached eggs on top with a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese. Good to go for the day. No need for lunch…
Groats have an ozempic-like effect. I have oatmeal groats in the mail headed to me. Groats and dark green leafy vegetables stimulate some small part of the colon to release satiation hormones ... but better to look it up because I'm writing without referencing the proper words.
I soak my oats overnight and add a touch of butter, sweetener, and just a hint of salt and cinnamon when cooking in the morning. Always takes me back to learning this method on a farm on the Aran Islands in Ireland in 1998.
Oatmeal: the Clark Kent of breakfast. Mild-mannered, yet surprisingly powerful. Though, let's be honest, savory oatmeal is still a crime against breakfast. 😂
I have a longstanding pet peeve that it's bullshit that we can make fried cakes and cupcakes and pastries with icing "breakfast food" but somehow a baked version of a bowl of oatmeal is an "oatmeal cookie" and can only be eaten as dessert. It should be a breakfast food!
lol no, on the stove you can stir down any revolving oatmeal, open up the microwave and you have half a serving left in a bowl the rest is a mess to clean up. I add a little butter and sugar. It’s probably the best breakfast food.
So I have celiac now and I've been told I have to avoid "regular" oatmeal. My favorite breakfast of all time is a bowl of Quaker Raisins & Spice and I crave it every day. GF maple and brown sugar is fine but man do I miss that one.
Oats works with just about anything you might also do with rice or another basic carb. One thing I love is to cook it with some gochujang and then add some cheese and green onion and sesame oil! Also good with an egg but depending where you are that might be a bit too much luxury these days.
Essential comfort breakfast on cold mornings - personal fave: half water/ half half and half - traditional oats, boil/ 5 min cook w/ stirring, sit for 1 min with RAISINS - plumps them up
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Classic rolled oats, chia seeds, chopped dates. Milk for liquid. Coconut oil & cinnamon/allspice if I want some extra (mix the spices with oil before the oats!) Finish with blackberries (frozen after best: they give off the most juice).
Savory oatmeal is underrated! Oatmeal + ramen got me through some rough financial times and if I'm being honest sometimes the line between them blurred.
Big fan of adding apple butter and cubed up apple with cinnamon and nutmeg. Secret ingredient is a bit of lard, and also milk powder is a bit easier nutritionally to portion correctly than milk so I use that and adjust the hydration to what seems necessary with plain water.
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It’s so easy to prep, I cook it in a rice cooker on a timer. Set it up the night before.
I’m out of oatmeal unfortunately.
Pinhead/steel cut are better, if only because the texture adds interest, but toppings improve all oatmeal. See also rice, kasha, grits, polenta…
Uncooked one minute oatmeal mixed with Greek yogurt +
Fruit of your choice(even dates & raisins)
Or PB&J.
While cooking add one banana (sliced) and 75 g of frozen blueberries
Add one tablespoon of vanilla extract and two dashes of cinnamon
Add 2 tablespoons of Chia seeds
When finished add to 147 g of Greek yogurt
toasting the oatmeal and cooking it to more or less al dente makes it actually not cardboard glue sludge hell snot goop
literally went from like two prior bowls of oat meal in my life to a couple a week
Do you microwave the blueberry with the vinegar, then add to the oatmeal?
Sounds good, but I can screw up toast, so want to try this without destroying my taste buds and/ or microwave
Thank you
But do try going more savory, mix in some cheese or anything you'd put on rice or inside an omelette.
but still for horses too.
Add a handful of wheat berries or dried fruit too. Chewy and nutty. Takes longer to digest, so a flatter glycemic load.
Turn it on when you go to bed, wake up to hot breakfast.
https://www.familysavvy.com/slow-cooker-groatmeal-oat-groats/
Greek olives on the side. Delicious. Every single morning.
Reskeet if you too like your oatmeal lumpy.
https://www.food.com/recipe/hells-kitchen-mahnomin-porridge-394699
Cooked wild rice porridge, recipe from Minneapolis Hell's Kitchen
green onions a treat with both
My favorite cold weather breakfast
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True tho