Happy June, summer belles and beaus! After a week without peanut butter, I remedied what was missing in my life with cookie dough baked oatmeal with chia seeds. This oatmeal bake tasted like a warm oatmeal chocolate chip cookie . . . only healthier!
Mmmm, delicious, too! Velvet Husband isn’t a chocolate fan (unfathomable to me, but I still love him!), so I whipped up an oatmeal mix more up his alley with raspberries, banana, walnuts, and a little sugar.
Clearly, he was not a fan. 😉
Whipped Banana Raspberry Walnut Oats
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Old-Fashioned Oats (I prefer Gluten Free oats for the consistency)
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1/2 banana, sliced into chunks
- 1/2 cup frozen raspberries
- tbsp chopped walnuts
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 tsp turbinado sugar (optional! I normally don’t sugar up my oats, but this was for a sugar-loving husband)
Toppings
- chopped walnuts
- 1 tsp coconut flakes (oops, forgot those!)
- Blueberries and banana slices to make it a patriotic brekkie!
Directions
Bring water to boil in a deep saucepan. When water reaches a rolling boil, add oats and stir, gradually lowering heat while oats cook. Add banana slices and frozen raspberries and stir in with oats. Continue whipping bananas and raspberries as oats cook at a low setting. Several minutes later, add turbinado sugar and walnuts. When oats are nearly cooked, add pure vanilla extract and stir until well-incorporated. Serve in bowl and add toppings of your choice. (I wish I had blueberries on hand for a red, white, and blue breakfast of patriots!) Note to milk-lovers: I prefer my oats sans milk, but feel free to add milk of your choice to your oats when they are nearly cooked, a la KERF whipped banana oats.
Velvet Husband was craving P.F. Chang’s for dinner, so to P.F. Chang’s we went! I don’t like fortune cookies and rarely eat them, but I always enjoy the fortune. Even though my career trajectory doesn’t involve real estate, this fortune was rather salient given recent events . . .
Because a few hours later, our applications were accepted for the townhouse! {Insert excitement spasms here!} We still have to sign the lease, but the process is moving along. I feel the need to be cautious about safety over the interwebs, so I’m refraining from posting pictures for now. Just take it from me, it’s adorablecutewonderulawesomeiloveit! Yeah, like that.
What foods do you love that your spouse/significant other/BFF doesn’t like?
For me, it’s chocolate. Velvet Hubby will sometimes eat chocolate if its mixed into a dish just so, but more often than not, he’s a pie and cobbler kind of guy. As you all know, I can’t imagine a world without cacao powder. 😉
I dated a guy who didn’t like dessert AT ALL. Clearly, we were not compatible. 😉
I need that cookie dough oatmeal in my life! One of these days when I get to make breakfast at home, I am SO doing that!
Whaaaa? Who doesn’t like dessert? I can deal with Hubby not liking chocolate (more for me and such), but NO dessert? I can see why you moved on. 🙂 HIGHLY recommend the boatmeal. I find it easier to make than regular stovetop oatmeal because you just whip it up and throw it in the oven. 20 minutes later, perfection. 🙂
(duh) and CONGRATS on the townhouse!!! Sounds like it was meant to be! 😀
Thank you!! I thought the fortune cookie was so weird!
umm yes gasp to your hubby not liking chocolate! Nick isn’t as gaga for it as I am but he’s still a fan.
That baked oatmeal looks like the most wonderful cookie ever invented, drooool 😉
Congrats on the townhouse, that’s wonderful! 🙂
I know, isn’t it just unimaginable to not like chocolate? It’s okay though, more for me! I made an even more decadent boatmeal today with CCK’s blondie batter as a topper…DROOL times a million! Thanks for the congrats on the townhouse, now we can have a blogger get-together in SoCal! 🙂
I just ordered chia seeds and have to make the cookie dough bake. Does it cancel out the calories of the chocolate when paired with chia seeds? I think it does;)
Oh, I concur on this one, Heather! In all fairness, I use enjoy life chocolate chips, so they’re not *too* bad for me. *If I keep telling myself this, maybe it’ll be true, right?!*
Omg congrats!!!!!! Yay yay yay!! I say you guys pop a bottle of wine whe you sign that lease!! So happy ! I bet it is beautiful! I understand u can’t post pics!
Mike and I love pf changs! We were JUST saying how we are going to go there Sunday night!! Yay!
Love ya girl!!!! Xoxo
Thank you so much, Katie girl!! It’s so purty and I want to post pics…I’m planning on posting pics of the inside, especially the kitchen! It’s so pretty 🙂
We LOVE PF Chang’s, too! It’s the ultimate comfort food! Y’all have fun Sunday! Love ya! xo
ah ha, love the fortune cookie! congrats. so exciting!
So weird about the fortune cookie, right?! I suppose it meant that I should work in real estate, but hey, I thought it applied!! 🙂
oh yummy to both breakfasts! Congratulations on the house! My hubby and I have heaps of different tastes! He doesn’t like Tomato or potato but likes brussel sprouts! Where as I’m the opposite! He also doesn’t like avocado or fish or oats! Can you believe it? He likes chocolate but not in the same way I do! I think it’s a women thing! I’m a lot more adventurous when it comes to trying new foods!
Thanks for the congrats, Mel! Avocado, fish, AND oats…WOW! I suppose I can see how the texture of an avocado could turn some people off…and oats are an acquired taste, too, maybe? Either way, just means more avocado, fish, and oats for you and your little guy 🙂
Must be a Y chromosome thing bc my hubs doesn’t care for chocolate or very many sweets either. He LOVES fruit and sweetness that comes from a plant, however..oh well, more for you and me 🙂
Same as Velvet Hub — he prefers a fruit cobbler over chocolate any day, but for me, it depends on what mood I’m in. Sometimes I go for fruity things, sometimes for chocolate. Okay, let’s be honest — usually chocolate. 🙂
CONGRATS! yea for cali!! and I love baked oatmeal! it’s the only way I can eat oatmeal for some reason 🙂 I am weird.
My hubby used to hate chocolate, but since being married to me, he loves it!
Wow, both of those breakfasts look AMAZING! Surprisingly my boyfriend usually likes the breakfast concoctions I make him. As long as I smother something in PB he’ll eat it! =P
Looks delicious, Kristen! I love raspberries.. or any mixed frozen berries in my oats!
Those oats look SO good! I need to try your recipe ASAP. I like a lot of things that my husband doesn’t like, but two of them are asparagus and brussel sprouts. He absolutely hates them both!