Very Berry Baked Oatmeal

Hello people! :D It's Sunday! Another week has past super quickly and September is approaching. (: School's gonna start really soon, but in the mean time, I shall enjoy my remaining holidays.

This flavour was inspired by the days I was working in Cold Stone Creamery. They had this signature creation of very berry, which is a mixture of 3 types of berries - strawberries, blueberries and raspberries. I decided to swap strawberries for blackberries because I couldn't get my hands on strawberries x.x But do feel free to swap it back to strawberries if you prefer that over blackberries! :D

Ingredients:
Rolled oats, around 40g
Milk (enough to cover the oats, you could add water to fill it up)
Applesauce (1 TBSP)
Cinnamon (a dash)
Assorted berries - as much as you want (:

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180C
2. Combine rolled oats, milk (or milk+ water), applesauce, assorted berries and cinnamon in a bake safe bowl
3. Bake in preheated oven for 20-25minutes
4. Top with more berries to serve (:

Key Lime Baked Oatmeal

Hello! :D We're more than half way through August, time really flies (: In awhile more, its going to be Christmas! The happiest time of the year (: It would be perfect if it snows. But in any case, it's still perfect because I've got my loved ones and friends with me (:

I've never thought that lime and coconut would go so well together. Halfway through baking, I could already smell the warm coconut through the kitchen and the tangy lime zest is so refreshing. It's such a good mixture of smell and taste that I couldn't believe that it's Monday. Haha.

Up close - love the coconuts!

Ingredients:
Rolled oats, around 40g
Milk (enough to cover the oats, you could add water to fill it up)
Lime juice (1/2 TBSP)
Desiccated Coconut (~2 TBSP + more to top)
Cinnamon (a dash)

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180C
2. Combine rolled oats, milk (or milk+ water), lime juice, desiccated coconut and cinnamon in a bake safe bowl
3. Bake in preheated oven for 20-25minutes
4. Sprinkle with more dessicated coconut and cinnamon to serve :D

Carrot Cake Baked Oatmeal

Just a really simple recreation of the favourite carrot cake (the baked one, not the fried one. lol) into an oatmeal version :D Really liked how this smelt when it's baking. (:

Ingredients:
Rolled oats, around 40g
Milk (enough to cover the oats, you could add water to fill it up)
Apple Sauce (2 TBSP)
Shredded carrot (~2 TBSP + more to top)
Cinnamon, as much as you like plus more to sprinkle! :D

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180C
2. Combine rolled oats, milk (or milk+ water), applesauce, shredded carrot and cinnamon in a bake safe bowl
3. Bake in preheated oven for 20-25minutes
4. Sprinkle with more shredded carrot and cinnamon to serve :D

Honey Ginger Lemon Baked Oatmeal

HELLO PEOPLE!! I'M FINALLY BACK FROM MY NEWCASTLE TRIP!! :D Haha. There wasn't any rolled oats there so I couldn't bake oats ): Missed it so so much while I'm there! It was nonetheless a great experience there despite the not-so-good food with all the lovely people and weather (: If I have the chance (and money), I wouldn't mind a second visit :D

Sadly, the first morning back in Singapore I was greeted with a thunderstorm. Was hoping for clear blue skies like what I've been experiencing over there. Haha. But oh well, thunderstorm will not dampen my mood for my long missed oatmeals! I made myself a warm honey ginger lemon baked oatmeal to cheer myself up (:

The warm ginger tinted with slight sourness and topped with the sweet honey.... What else could taste as homely as this? (:

Ingredients:

Rolled oats, around 40g

Milk (enough to cover the oats, you could add water to fill it up)

Lemon juice, 1 TBSP

Shredded ginger, 1 TBSP

Honey, 1 TSP (and more to drizzle)

Lemon zest, to top

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180C

2. Combine rolled oats, milk (or milk+ water), lemon juice, ginger and honey in a bake safe bowl

3. Bake in preheated oven for 20-25minutes

4. Sprinkle lemon zest and drizzle honey over oatmeal to serve (:

Red Velvet Baked Oatmeal

I swear I did not plan this oatmeal to be red and blue to celebrate independence day. But since it is, happy early independence day (:

Today was a rather scary day, but I'm glad I had red velvet to tide me through (: I'm starting to like and appreciate the taste of beetroot! This all-natural baked oatmeal got its colour from beetroot and I'm surprise how amazing it looks. It doesn't look artificial like red colouring, and has this natural red tinge to it. Super pretty (: The picture does not do any justice to it.

Taste wise, beetroot does not have much taste, or it may be due to the amount of cocoa powder I've added. Haha. However, it's not super chocolatey like a chocolate oatmeal. It's more like red velvet (: I topped it with blueberries because I love how the blueberries burst in the mouth. I spread a thick layer of cream cheese on top before every bite, to compliment the red velvet taste, and it really taste like red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, minus all the fats and sugar (:

Ingredients:
Rolled oats, around 40g
Milk (enough to cover the oats, you could add water to fill it up)
Beetroot juice*, around 2-3TBSP, depending on how red you would like the oatmeal to be. I used around 3TBSP
Cocoa powder, around 1TBSP
Cream cheese, to top
Blueberries or other fruits to taste

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180C
2. *Dice beetroot and blend with around 1/2 cup water and strain the pulp to get the juice
3. Combine rolled oats, milk (or milk+ water), beetroot juice and cocoa powder in a bake safe bowl
4. Bake in preheated oven for 20-25minutes
5. Spread with a thick layer of cream cheese and sprinkle blueberries or other fruits to your liking (:

Enjoy July (:

Passion fruit Baked Oatmeal

The first time I had my encounter with passion fruit was during my Final Year Project in poly days. Before that, I had no idea what passion fruit was. I've always thought passion fruit was purple for unknown reasons, but turns out, passion fruit is nowhere close to purple. Haha.

And that was also when I fell in love with passion fruit. The sweet and sour taste of the juice with the crunchy seeds. It's such an exotic fruit, different from the usual soft or crunchy fleshy and juice bursting ones. It's nonetheless lovely and delicious.

I've actually mixed passion fruit into my usual stove top oatmeal before, but somehow, the baked ones makes it taste even better.

Ingredients:
Rolled oats, around 40g
Milk (enough to cover the oats, you could add water to fill it up)
Passion fruit (as much as you want, I used 2 passion fruit worth of seeds and pulp)
Apple sauce, around 1TBSP
Cinnamon, to taste

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180C
2. Combine rolled oats, milk (or milk+ water), passion fruit, apple sauce and dust cinnamon on top in a bake safe bowl
3. Bake in preheated oven for 20-25minutes
4. Top with more passion fruit and cinnamon when eating

Enjoy (:

Blueberry Lemon Baked Oatmeal

The haze is finally clearing! :D So happy to see the sun and breathe fresh air again. We should really cherish what we have and not take things for granted, even down to the most basic things like air. (:

Been working quite a bit at Real Food Cafe recently. I like it there, it has a very homely feel to it. Although most of the time im washing or drying dishes, im actually enjoying it. Haha. A change from the usual I guess. It's good training for me too, since I'm going to be alone in UK and there's no one to wash my dishes. :X haha.

Ok, so here's the recipe for Blueberry Lemon Baked Oatmeal. Really simple, but taste so good. The combination is surprising good! The sweet and sour taste of blueberries and lemon with the salty cottage cheese. Really good (: But again, what could go wrong with blueberries and lemons? (:

Ingredients:
Rolled oats (I measured my oats this time, around 40grams)
Milk (enough to cover the oats, you could add water to fill it up)
Blueberries (as much as you want)
Lemon juice (1/2 a lemon)
Lemon zest and more blueberries, for topping
Cottage cheese, for topping

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180C
2. Combine rolled oats, milk (or milk+ water), blueberries and lemon in a bake safe bowl
3. Bake in preheated oven for 20-25minutes
4. Sprinkle more blueberries, lemon zest and spread cottage cheese when eating

Enjoy! (the sun, and the oatmeal :D)