Generally in the summer, Kristie and I make up a batch of Muesli on Sunday evening and have it throughout the week.
On weekends however, we enjoy making meals that we either haven't had in a while, or brand new meals that we have never tried.
This week we found a recipe for
Baked Peanut Butter Oatmeal. Having good success with
Baked Nutella Oatmeal and
Baked Pumpkin Oatmeal (which we made, but didn't blog about), we thought that we'd give this new one a try. Wow! This dish was amazing; and so easy to make. It would be a wonderful dish for those of you suffering through the Great White North at the moment.
Here's the recipe:
Baked Oatmeal with Peanut Butter
Ingredients:
1-1/2 cups quick cooking oats
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup melted butter
1 egg
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup Peanut Butter (use one low in salt)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350° and grease a 9×13 pan. Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl and stir well. Spread in to pan and bake for 20-25 minutes, or until edges are golden brown. Serve with warm milk poured over top.
That's it! That is all there is to it!
Other serving suggestions:
- slice bananas on top then pour warm milk
- sprinkle with a few mini chocolate chips
- add yogurt and a little maple syrup
yields 12-16 servings and is wonderful left over for a quick easy breakfast.
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| Walnut the Wookie |
Even though this picture is blurry, I still think it is great.
This is Walnut just before his most recent hair cut. Doesn't he look like a litte, grumpy wookie.
Kristie and I are bonkers for a good veggie burger. We are also big fans of anything to do with quinoa. So when we came upon a
quinoa veggie burger recipe, we thought it would be something like those Reese Peanut Butter Cup commercials: "You got quinoa on my burger." "You got burger on my quinoa."
As it turns out, a Reese Peanut Butter Cup burger probably would have been a better choice for dinner.
Mental Note: see what I can do with a Reese Peanut Butter Cup burger.
We followed the recipe to the letter, and it turned out that when all the ingredients were mixed together, we couldn't even form a patty from the goopy slop. We tried frying them up like a fritter, and even then, the things didn't seem to stick together properly.
All in all, this recipe was erased from our bookmarks.
Here in NZ, we don't have the all-you-can-eat broadband packages that you generally get in Canada. We have a 20 GB/month plan, which is generally not too bad, unless you want to be a heavy duty cloud user.
I downloaded a trial version of Carbonite to backup all of my data to the cloud. I do onsite backups, but I like the idea of having the off site backups too. What I didn't count on is how much data I actually had to backup. I have something like 66 GB of data on my laptop, which actually isn't a lot of data now-a-day. And that doesn't count how much data is on Kristie's laptop.
Anyway, for those who aren't very good at math, 66 GB of data is a larger number than the 20 GB cap I have from my ISP. So not only didn't I get all my data uploaded to the cloud, but now that we reached our monthly limit, we're throttled to dial-up speed until the billing cycle has ended. I had given some thought to this issue afterwards thinking that even if I did get all the data uploaded to the cloud, if something catastrophic happened, it would take a couple months to get it all back.
I think NZ should start thinking about no limit caps from ISPs. As more and more of life's dealings will be done online, NZ will be left in the lurch as no one will have the bandwidth to do it all.
