Poached Pear and Chocolate Chip Stove Top

 

Some people dislike pears. Its the texture, I'm sure. To be honest I used to hate pears myself. Apparently they were one of my mums big pregnancy cravings. Have I said this before? Anyway, I loved them when I little but went off them with age, like bananas. But poached pears have become my new thing. Of course you don't have to poach your pear, just use a ripe one.

 

The sauce is optional. But does make it extra gooey and rich. If using cacao be warned that it can become grainy, in comparison to cocoa powder, so mix it up well.

 

Poached Pear Chocolate chip Oatmeal

 

Ingredients:

1/2 Cup/40g Rolled Oats

1 Cup/240ml Liquid of choice, I use 2/3 Almond milk 1/3 Water

Pinch of Salt

1/2 Tsp Vanilla Extract

 

1 Pear

Optional: Tsp Sweetener of choice, 1/4 Tsp cinnamon, 1/8 tsp Nutmeg and ginger, one bit of lemon/orange peel and 1/2 Tsp Vanilla

 

Handful of chocolate chips, I used milk

 

Raw Cacao sauce:

1 Tsp Maple syrup, or sweetener of choice

2 TBSP Cocoa powder or 1 TBSP Cacao

1-2 TBSP Milk of choice, to desired consistency

Method:

Pear: Fill a saucepan big enough to hold your pear with enough water to cover it. Bring the water to boil and add the sweetener, lemon peel, vanilla and spice. Let it simmer for about 10 minutes to infuse. Add the pear and simmer until the pear is soft enough that a knife can be inserted easily. Like a potato.

 

1. Bring the milk to the boil, add the oats and salt and reduce the heat to a simmer.

2. Once more of the liquid has absorbed add the vanilla.

3. Mix up the sauce, sweetener and powder first to a paste then add in the milk to the consistency you want. Chop up the pear when the oats are almost done.

4. When the oats reach a consistency you like fold in the chocolate chips and half the pear and transfer into a bowl. Top with the rest of the pear and the sauce. Enjoy!

 

Sweet Potato Brownie Baked Oatmeal

I'm gonna cook Thanksgiving dinner. Granted it will be two days late, as I will be at college on the day. But my family will feast on turkey and all the 'American' trimmings on the 29th. And one of the desserts, will be sweet potato brownies. The other, semi-raw pecan pie. Both from Deliciously Ella. I can't wait to try them both out. Yes, I made this dish without having tried actual sweet potato brownies. But I'm a British girl making breakfast for holidays my people don't celebrate. Doing it happily of course. I'm a big lover of American culture, in a few years I wish to part take in 'Camp America' and if I get into my top choice of university, hope to study film abroad in one of the many American universities that are a part of the programme. As we all know, the USA, Hollywood to be exact, reigns supreme in todays cinema.

Back to food...

 

Last year my family and I went to London, to an American bakery, one of mine and my mums favourites, Outsider Tart for Thanksgiving. It was fantastic. But expensive. So this year I decided I needed a challenge. And to eat cornbread again. So I'm gonna give it a whack. I plan to save up my money next year to treat my mother to a real dinner next year.

 

This breakfast was dense, and rich and unbelievably filling. As well as satisfying. I topped it with crunchy peanut butter. I'd recommend it. Or swirling it in before baking. Anything for more indulgence in the morning.

Sweet Potato Brownie Baked Oatmeal

Tastes like dessert. But has hidden goodness. Delicious and nutritious.

 

 

Ingredients:

1/2 Cup/45g Rolled Oats, 1 TBSP ground to a flour

Pinch of Salt

1/4 Tsp Baking Powder

2 TBSP Cocoa Powder

1/2 Vanilla Extract

1/3 Cup Milk of choice

1/3 Cup Mashed sweet potato

1-2 Tsp Maple syrup or sweetener of choice

 

Optional: 2 TBSP Flaxseed

Handful of chocolate chips, I used dark

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 350F/180C/Gas Mark. Grease a ramekin or dish.

2. Mix the oats, salt, baking powder and cocoa (And flax) till well combined. Add the vanilla and sweet potato, mix well. Add the milk TBSP at a time at a time till the oats are wet but not sloppy. It should be thick, like brownies batter. Fold in the chocolate chips.

3. Pour into your prepared dish and bake for 25-35 minutes. Depending on how cooked you want it. Enjoy!

 

Pear and Apple Crumble Baked Oatmeal

This recipe is based of a 'Caramelized Pear and Apple Crumble'. But I don't like to use butter in my breakfast. Nor artificial caramel flavouring. So my caramel comes from dates. Date syrup anyway.

 

 

I bought it weeks ago and have been waiting to find a way to use. Its flavour is mild, but far more 'caramel' than maple syrup. So it works.

Pear and Apple Crumble

Ingredients:

Filling:

1 Ripe pear, peeled and chopped

1 Apple, peeked and chopped

1-2 Tsp Date syrup or sweetener of choice

2-3 Drops of almond extract, to taste

 

Crumble topping:

1/2 Cup/45g Rolled Oats

2 Tsp Maple syrup or liquid sweetener of choice

2-3 TBSP Milk of choice

Handful of flaked almonds

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 350F/180C/Gas Mark 4. Mix the date syrup and almond extract and fold in the fruit. Set aside.

2. Mix the oats and syrup and add milk tablespoon at a time till the oats are a crumbly consistency. Add the almonds.

3. Pour the filling into a ramekin/dish and tumble on the topping. Pack down lightly around the fruit but don't force it down and ruin the clumps. Bake for 15-17 minutes or until the oats are golden, almonds toasted and aromatic, and the fruit probably bubbling up the edges.

Apple, Pear and Cherry Compote Stove Top

Once again. So many posts, I have nothing to say.

This recipe is as most of mine are. Basic. And the base will be seeing another venture. Probably not soon. As I have tons of other ideas to get through. But in the future. It will.

Apple, Pear and Cherry Oatmeal

 

Ingredients:

1/2 Cup/40g Rolled Oats

1 Cup/240ml Liquid of choice, I use 2/3 almond milk 1/3 water

Pinch of Salt

1/2 Tsp Vanilla Extract

Optional: 1 Tsp Maple syrup or sweetener of choice

 

Optional: 2 TBSP Flaxseed

 

Compote:

1 Ripe Pear, sliced into wedges

1 Apple, chopped into chunks

1/2 Cup Applesauce, homemade or baby food, like I did

Big handful of dried cherries

1-2 Tsp Maple sweetener or honey, to taste

Method:

Compote:

Pour the applesauce into a saucepan and warm over a low heat. Add the pear, apple and maple syrup. Cover and simmer until the fruit is soft. Add the cherries and turn off heat. Warm it back up when you make the oats. You can store it in the fridge and use it for anything, over yogurt, ice cream or with cereal.

 

1. Bring your liquid to the boil, and the oats and salt and reduce to a simmer.

2. Once more liquid has absorbed add the vanilla and sweetener. Once it reaches a consistency you like transfer to a bowl and spoon over the compote. Enjoy!

 

Veggie Hash

I'm only gonna use one picture of this dish because it wasn't pretty. But it was delicious. Not as crispy as I went into it to make, but better. I want to start doing mixed recipes on this blog. Not just oatmeal. I meant it will prodominatly oats and breakfasts.

 

 

Veggie Hash

Ingredients:

1 large sweet potato, grated or shredded

2-3 Carrots, grated or shredded

8-10 Brussel sprouts, trimmed and halved

1 TBSP Olive oil

Method:

1. Heat the oil in a frying pan with a lid, or find an odd lid big enough to cover it, like I did. On a medium heat.

2. Once its hot reduce to low and add the veg, tossing it about for a minute or two. Cover and cook for about 4-5 minutes, check it every now and then and move it about to stop it from burning. Cook till soft, then ramp up the heat and cook to the crispness you enjoy.

Bonfire Overnight Oats

So like the last post. This ones late. Not as late as the last one. But still hella late. Technical difficulties people! My laptop. My NEW laptop is playing up. ALOT. And so I'm gonna bang out as many of my stacked up posts as possible before it realises that is being complient.

 

To celebrate Bonfire Night, or Guy Fawkes, or whatever you call it, the 5th of November for most of you., I decided to create an 'abstract' Bonfire in the form of a overnight parfait.

 

Now, I didn't go to any firework night celebrations, I heard many though. Loud and frequent. And only the start. The celebrations around my way won't end till New Years.

Bonfire Overnight Oats

Ingredients:

1/2 Cup/40g Rolled Oats

1/2 Cup/120ml Milk of choice

2 Tsp Chia seeds

1/2cup/100g Yogurt of choice

 

2 Cup of frozen Strawberries, thawed

1 Cup frozen Mango, thawed

4 TBSP of Marmalade

 

Red fruit leather

Cacao nibs

Method:

1. Split the oats into two bowls. Add half the milk, 1 Tsp chia seeds and half the yogurt to both. Blend half the strawberries and add to one. Blend Half the mango and add to the other. Cover both and put in the fridge to chill overnight or for at least four hours.

2. Blend the rest of the strawberries. Drop the cacao nibs into the bottom of your class. Layer the oats, marmalade, and strawberry sauce until all are used up or your glass is fully up. Top with fruit leather flames and enjoy!



Witches Brew (Green smoothie) Stove Top Oatmeal

This is half a month to late. But I want it on my blog and I'm not waiting a whole year. I'll forget.

 

 

Its a basic recipe. But very festive. And a great way to empty your cupboard of miscellaneous edible things. As well as getting in your veggies without the God awful taste of them.

 

 

Ingredients:

1/2 Cup/40g Rolled Oats

1 Cup/240ml Liquid of choice, I use half 2/3 Milk, 1/3 Water

Pinch of Salt

1/2 Tsp Vanilla Extract

1 Big handful of fresh/1 big hunk of frozen and thawed of Spinach

1 Ripe Banana

 

Toppings:

Anything weird looking and tasty:  I used fruit leather tentacles, mulberries, raisins, walnuts, pistachios, goji berries, crunchy peanut butter and cacao nibs. But go crazy.

Method:

1. Blitz your banana, spinach and a few tablespoons of liquid (Enough to get it going) till all green and disgusting looking. Like the picture. It will be real thick with little bits of spinach.

2. Bring the rest of the liquid to the boil, add the oats and salt and reduce to a simmer.

3. Once more liquid has absorbed add the vanilla and the green gloop. Mix in well. Once it reaches a consistency you like, adding some more liquid if its to thick for you, transfer to a bowl. Swirl in nut butter and top with your garish add ins. Enjoy!

 

I hope you had a great Halloween. And if I'm not still running this blog next October, which I hope I still am. Happy Halloween for 2015!