Oatmeal Breakfast Cookie

Did you ever see Seinfeld do standup?  He always talked about Cookie Crisp cereal. "What is the deal with Cookie Crisp? I mean, really, it's cookies for breakfast!"  The SNL spoof would say, "Who are the ad geniuses that came up with this one?"

In our continued quest to eat better C and I have been eating oatmeal for breakfast more and more.  Let's just say, no matter what we add neither one of us is a fan of the gloppiness of oatmeal.  It is hard to eat regularly.

One morning C said to me, "I wish we could just have oatmeal like in a cookie or something."  Bingo!  I looked up a couple recipes and made a batch that very day!  It was an awesome idea and they came out fabulous.  To be on the safe side I made another batch with success.  Make them Sunday night and they last the week.

I'm betting these are dynamite (and even easier) made as breakfast bars.  If you try it lemme know what you think.  How about that Seinfeld?  You can have cookies for breakfast!

Oatmeal Breakfast Bars
based on WiseBread Recipe

2 mashed ripe bananas (as evident in picture of ingredients)
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/4 cup milk
1 Tbsp honey
2 globs of peanut butter
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp cinnamon
2 cups uncooked oatmeal
1/2 cup raisins

handful of chocolate chips (I happen to have dark choc chunks - YUMMY)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  In large bowl mash bananas then add applesauce through cinnamon and stir well.  Add oatmeal and combine.  Once fully mixed add raisins and choc chips. Let sit 5 minutes.

I gotta say the chocolate is BOSS in this recipe.  You only get a little choc here and there but it'll make your morning, I promise!

Ok plop cookie dough onto pammed cookie sheet.  I used the back of a spoon dipped in water to flatten the cookies.  Bake for 15-20 minutes.  Yowser they are tasty.

Slider Stuffing!

Taking a break from the vegetarian blogging for a bit to talk about our Thanksgiving stuffing.  We have had Thanksgiving dinner at our house(or condo or apartment) for nearly 10 years.  I say nearly because 3 years ago my sister and her husband hosted.  They did a fabulous job, I definitely appreciated the year off, but I really love hosting.


One year, maybe 2001, we went camping with C's family back in Illinois.  C's Dad took a turkey or chicken, stuffed it with White Castle stuffing, wrapped it in foil and threw in on lit coals in a hole in the ground.  He covered all that with dirt and let it "bake" for a couple hours.  I was completely skeptical but lemme tell you that bird was amazing!  The stuffing?  It seriously changed our lives.

If you've never been to White Castle I am so sorry but you need to run there right now.  No wait, on second thought, wait until Saturday night, go out drinking for about 4 hours, then go through the drive-thru and order a case of "What you crave".  (that's code for a 10 pack of sliders).  The best part is the next day you will learn the real reason they are called sliders.
*Sidebar - it cracks me up that upscale restaurants have "Sliders" since the term is largely used for the runs you get the next day.

Anyway, not only did we trade pizza for mountains but also sliders.  boo hoo.  Fortunately, most grocery stores sell them frozen.  Tuesday I went shopping and they were on sale!  Lucky me!  I bought 4 boxes (6 sliders per box).  The key missing ingredient is the grease when you can buy them from the store fresh and make stuffing with them.  Oh well, the sacrifices we make.

I will make every effort to document the making of this marvelous stuffing.  In the meantime, here's the recipe.

http://www.whitecastle.com/food/recipes/view/7-white-castle-turkey-stuffing

PS they even have a recipe for White Castle Latkes (I have died and gone to heaven).