Another recipe that uses the blender/food-processor/hand-blender technique:
Little Vegan Harvest Oatmeal
Ingredients:
1/2 cup uncooked oats (or one serving of your grain of choice; the photo is of whole-grain Cream of Wheat)
Up to 1 container applesauce (the little 113gram containers, not one jar LOL!)
½ tsp cinnamon
Non-dairy milk of choice (I use almond milk)
Tiny dash salt (optional)
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 non-dairy milk 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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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
Katie, you will become addicted to GG! It is so girly and mindlessly fun to watch!
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
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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
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