Recipe Round-Up: Oatrageous Oatmeals

I love oats, so when I heard there was a book dedicated to them I knew I had to have it. Oatrageous Oatmeals by Kathy Hester is packed full of all sorts of recipes. Of course, there is a hefty dose of warm oatmeals, overnight oats, granolas, and oat bars. But she also has soups, savouries, desserts, drinks, homemade basics, and even beauty products! I haven't blogged much from this book yet, but you can see a few recipes that I have put up in some other posts here.

So yes, this book has a whole bunch of exciting oat recipes! But this post is pretty much all breakfast oats, because they are what I have made the most of. Warm oats on chilly mornings, and overnight oats for a quick breakfast on summer mornings!

Dianne's Elvis Oatmeal: I love peanut butter, everyone knows this. Peanut butter, banana, and chocolate is a super was to start the day! It said it served four, but I made a half recipe and ate it all for one filling breakfast. I never have vanilla non-dairy milk around, so I used oatmilk (so on theme) with 1/4 tsp of vanilla extract added. I also added a tiny sprinkle of Wayfare Pig Out Grain Bacon Bits for the maximum Elvis experience. BTW, the Dianne in question is wonderful vegan Dianne Wenz!
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Lemon Raspberry Cheesecake Oatmeal: A fun little combination, the oats are flavoured with lemon and vanilla extracts, and then topped with some raspberry yoghurt. We can't get vegan raspberry yoghurt here (well, maybe there is some sort of coconut yoghurt, but they don't count to me), so I used some Kingland plain green yoghurt with some defrosted frozen raspberries. This recipe uses steel cut oats, for a bit of extra texture. It is pretty small servings, it says it serves three but I would say just one hungry Susan. I needed to add an extra splash of oat milk part way through cooking the oats so they didn't dry out. I also didn't need to add any sweetener, as I found it sweet enough.
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Kheer (Indian Pudding) Oatmeal: A lovely mix of cardamom, raisins, and saffron (I just used a teeny pinch of saffron, I'm not a millionaire). This also uses steel cut oats, and again I needed to add an extra splash of oat milk while cooking. I also left out the optional sweetener, the raisins make it sweet enough. I topped mine with sliced almonds.
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Candy Bar Overnight Oatmeal: This blends chocolate, coconut and almonds together... though I was a little underwhelmed. There aren't any actual almonds in the recipe (though I added some on top), so there isn't much of an almond flavour. I used the option of using plain soy yoghurt and oat milk, and adding vanilla and coconut extracts. Again, I left out the sweetener (which I guess makes it less of a candy bar). I topped it with coconut shreds, almonds, and cocao nibs.
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Peanut Butter Cup Overnight Oatmeal: This is one of the 'petite portion' recipes, though I don't hold with that. So I doubled it all to get it to my liking. It is meant to have vegan chocolate protein powder in it, but I don't use protein powders so I added some cocoa for the chocolate flavour. I drizzled this with a little dark agave and topped it with some raw cocao nibs and crushed peanuts.
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Coconut Cream Overnight Oatmeal: I hear your gasp of disbelief! Susan? Coconut Cream? But no, there was no actual coconut fat in my version because I took the option of using soy vegan yoghurt and oat milk and adding coconut extracts. I actually used some vanilla yoghurt, which was quite sweet so I skipped adding sweetener. Everything here is coconut flavoured, so I did find it a bit one note. Also, even though she uses chia seeds in most of the overnight oats to add protein and make them more filling, this one didn't keep me super full. This is topped with some cocoa-dusted coconut flakes that I got in a subscription box.
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Cinnamon Roll Overnight Oatmeal: Cinnamon, allspice, vanilla, and pecans are added to these oats. All these overnight recipes make one serve, and I added some extra oats to this one. I used plain oat milk, and a tub of vanilla soy yoghurt for my liquids. And of course I doubled the cinnamon - you can never have too much! I topped this with some pecans and more cinnamon.
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Banana Pudding Overnight Oatmeal: This is another petite portion recipe, but I made this for a little snack so I kept it small. A banana is mashed and added to the oats along with some yoghurt and vanilla. It was nice, and naturally sweet (I didn't add any sweetener). Topped with some sweet and salty coconut bacon flakes because, why not.
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Cute Kitty Photo of the Post



Dim Sim looking so pensive and so cute. But then she is always cute, no matter what she is doing. She's had a bit of conjunctivitis lately, and has been not too pleased about having eye medication, but she is a good girl.