Happy Holidays!!

Happy Holidays to everyone!! Bon Appetit!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!! Travel safe and enjoy the day!!

Pumpkin Spice

LOL!! The flavor of the season right!! How many of you actually LOVE the coming of the Pumpkin Spice season? I use to and then it became too commercial. Also, I find that a lot of pumpkin spice stuff is really sweet and that turns me off too.

In the comments section, tell me what Pumpkin Spice products you have bought and have you liked them?

GREAT Snack!

I never heard of cookie butter until a few months ago. Since it was on sale, my daughter and I decided to try it. OMG!! It's so good, but I had no idea what to do with it? What do you put it on?

APPLES!

Little apple slices spread with cookie butter tastes like little apple pies PLUS the calories from the cookie butter balances the calories from the apples which equals a healthy snack with no calories - Right? Okay, maybe calories are involved, but I'm in denial. ;)

Rolled vs Steal Cut Oats

Rolled oats are what generally we all eat. Thank you to the Quakers who have put them out there in every conceivable way, shape and form. They are good though! I, personally, love oatmeal. I like to make my own though. I cook a small bowl in the microwave of just plain oatmeal and then add in nuts, brown sugar, fruit, etc. Maybe drizzle a little 1/2 and 1/2 over it and it's delicious. 

Steel cut oats I can do the same way. They are a little harder...chewy...than plain oatmeal. It's really good for you though and goes well in a crock pot.

What are steel cut oats? What's the difference between steel and rolled?

All oats beginning their lives as groats. 

These are oat groats.

The oat groats are roasted at low temps and what happens to them afterwards is what makes them different.

Steel Cut Oats (a.k.a Irish or Scottish oats or pinhead oats) are when the whole groat is chopped up into little pieces. The name, steel cut, refers to the large steel blades used to cut up the groat in small pieces. Steel Cut oats are traditionally used in porridge and take longer to cook and are a bit chewy. I have tried them and they are okay, but I prefer rolled oats. I'd like to try to make porridge one day. Maybe this winter. 

Rolled Oats are just that...rolled. They are also called old-fashioned or whole oats. Rolled oats are first processed with steam and then rolled flat. The same goes with instant oats, but they have less texture. Rolled oats have hundreds of uses from breakfast to cookies to granola bars to extenders for meatloaves and other dishes. They are cheap and easy. 

Winter is coming! What will be in your bowl? Steel cut oats or rolled oats?

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Happy 2016!!!

May your New Year be delicious!!