Pumpkin Pie Oat Meal

     

     I am so happy that we finally found a place to call home. I've been away from my blog because the house we were renting became inhabitable and unsafe for us to live in any longer. We stayed in my brothers RV for one month parked out in front of our local beaches on the central coast. Being by the beach definitely helped the sad feelings of not having a place to call home, especially because I was about 7 months pregnant and unable to get ready for the new baby. The kitchen in the RV was not suitable to experiment in (and really challenging to cook or bake anything at all!).  I was also very distracted by everything that was left to do in the middle of moving: storage for our five cars, where our dog was going to stay, storage for all of our stuff, and where we were going to live. Well, with much patience my husband I searched night and day to find this wonderful place we now call home. And the house is great; we live in a beautiful neighborhood on three acres that has tons of play area for the kids to frolic for hours. I haven’t even been to the park since we moved in because we've been here having so much fun.

            If you’re wondering how we’ve been settling in to our new place, well, its going ok…. Who am I kidding? We are still in boxes and my cravings and lack of a functional kitchen for a month has left me with some unique dinners to say the least. I know when my husband asks for the salsa or the cheese, I must be slacking on taste or spice.

            But, I have been making this pumpkin pie spice oat meal lately for the kids. Yesterday, when I went shopping for Thanksgiving kitchen supplies, my husband couldn’t figure out what to give the kids for a snack. So he called me and I told him to warm up the leftover pumpkin pie spiced oat meal. When I returned home a few hours later he told me that the cereal thing you made was so good and he would eat that for breakfast everyday if I made it for him to take to work. So I agreed with a big grin.

ingredients:

Water- 2 ½ cup

Old fashion oats- 1 cup

½ cup of almond meal

 Sea salt- 1/8 tsp

Pumpkin- fresh or canned – ¾ cup

Maple syrup – 4 tbsp

Vanilla – 1 tsp

Cinnamon – 1 ½ tsp or more

Pumpkin pie spice – ½ tsp or more

Milk of choice or half and half

Bring the water to a boil and add the oats. Cover and simmer on low (keeping a slight boil) for 5-10 minutes (depending on how soft you want the oats). Add the almond meal and cover and simmer for another 5 minutes. Stir in the sea salt pumpkin, maple syrup, vanilla, cinnamon and pumpkin spice. Then I cover and let stand with the heat off for a few minutes. Serve with milk or half and half.

Note: Leftovers will always need to be heated with extra milk. If you add extra pumpkin you’ll need to add more maple syrup because of the bitterness from the fruit.

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