Creator of imaginative oatmeal recipes. "101 Ways to Make Oatmeal Desserts: And What My Mother Said That Sparked Creativity and an Oatmeal Obsession" on Amazon.
“Fitting in allows you to blend in with everyone else, but being different allows you to be yourself, to be unique, and to be more creative.” ~Sonya Parker
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101+ways to fix oatmeal. Chocolate Oat Milk Blueberry Smoothie is one of them.
Home from birthday celebration mini getaway in the mtns. Until I take the time to learn to make videos, pretend this is a video telling you how much I appreciate the warm birthday wishes. You fill my heart w/joy! Deeply grateful & cherish your friendships immensely. ~Patricia
“We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions define us.” ~Virginia Satir
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From dull, boring gruel to extraordinary. Oatmeal unlimited. Oatmeal Cranberry Brie Pie
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” ~Oscar Wilde. Oatmeal sings songs you can hear. Blackberry stuffed bake oatmeal topped w/blackberry pie filling.
Bridal Veil Oatmeal Cookies. Good ole Southern recipe for oatmeal cookies. We serve them at bridal parties & at receptions following funerals. The brandy is added to calm nerves on the wedding day & to liven things up after the funeral. Here's the recipe:
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that’s your own self.” ~Aldous Huxley. From gruel to gourmet & boring to creative, oatmeal improves its own self. Chocolate Rhubarb Chèvre Sauce on Baked Oatmeal is one way.
Oatmeal & blueberries go together like peanut butter & jelly. They’re a match made in heaven. And this Oatmeal Blueberry Pie will make you think you’re in heaven. Recipe for Oatmeal Blueberry Pie:
"Be brave enough to find the life you want & courageous enough to chase it. Then start over & love yourself the way you were always meant to." ~Madalyn Beck. Starting over from gruel to gourmet. Chocolate Rhubarb Chèvre Sauce on Baked
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"There's no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands." ~James Redfield
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Strawberry Cream Cheese w/Honey on Baked Oatmeal
We brought back the roaring 20s for a Halloween costume party last night. Tom's boater hat was his father's, who was born in 1903. I had to pull a sweater over my flapper dress. There comes a point in life when you worry more about freezing to death than being a sex symbol!
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, ...it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears ... .” ~Henry David Thoreau.
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hears a different drummer. Watermelon Grapes Feta Walnuts Honey on Baked Oatmeal
Taking care of the Baby Grands this week while their parents are away on business. I. Am. Exhausted! But found the energy to make this Cinnamon Streusel Cake using a box mix, added oatmeal, and a couple of other things. Here's the recipe:
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” ~Franklin D. Roosevelt. The joy of creative
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fixin's. Banana Blueberry Brandy Cream Cheese Oatmeal is one way.
Happy to report it was a lovely Thanksgiving lake break. Missed y’all lots & give thanks for the friendships here. Cooked & cooked. We didn’t have dessert after Thanksgiving dinner because we had it for breakfast! Baked Oatmeal w/Blueberry Sauce
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Grand Marnier Raspberry Oatmeal Cookies Dusted w/Powdered Sugar. Recipe makes-ahh-let me think. 6 cookies here. Ate 4 while getting the camera. Before that, ate 2 big spoons of cookie dough. Math makes my head hurt. Just know recipe makes enough for 1.
The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see. ~Nelson Mandela
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Oatmeal Powered Parfait
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~Albert Einstein. Oatmeal - from gruel to deliciousness. Cinnamon Streusel Oatmeal Cake. A recipe w/Betty Crocker Cinnamon Streusel box mix.
It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right. ~Melody Beattie
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Easy to look and see how delicious Cinnamon Streusel Oatmeal Cake is. Stirred up with a box mix.
Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what's funny about what you're doing. ~Roger von Oech
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Oatmeal gets whacky.
There’s room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. ~Tori Amos
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#NoMoreBoringOatmeal
Kiwi Blueberry Oatmeal Smoothie
Here's what happened at the kids' table when we turned them loose w/a package of Oatmeal Cookie Mix, a bowl, a big spoon, jars of hot fudge, peanut butter & creamy marshmallow, a bag of chocolate chips & a cookie sheet pan lined w/parchment paper.
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~Henry David Thoreau
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Finally! Found! The best oatmeal cookie! All Around Good Oatmeal Cookie! Recipe for All Around Good Oatmeal Cookies:
May your coming year be filled w/magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you ... don't forget to make some art ... write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself. ~Neil Gaiman
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#NewYear2024
Here's to your health! Carrot Dark Cherry Oatmeal Smoothie. Cheers!
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on the way to my quest for 101 Oatmeal Smoothies. (Or maybe it's
#7
! I can't keep up!) 😄
The reason grandparents & grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. ~Sam Levenson. I'm staying w/the Baby Grands while the mean parents, who run this place like a POW camp, are out of town. Baked blueberry brownies cuz all they ever get are vegetables.
I tell you, it’s not a proper winter without a decent snowman. ~Mr. Tumnus, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
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#FrostyTheSnowman
"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others." ~Michel de Montaigne. Oatmeal rubs and polishes against peaches, bananas & salad greens for a Peach Banana Oatmeal Green Smoothie! Easy, healthy, delicious!
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If we choose to share what we make, our work can recirculate and become source material for others. ~Rick Rubin
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Sending around clementines on oatmeal.
“Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go.” ~John Lennon.
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Oatmeal takes you down to Strawberry Cream Cheese w/Honey over Baked Oatmeal
"Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short and I've shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways I'll keep from my children." ~Maggie Smith, "Good Bones"
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Oatmeal Dark Chocolate Bark
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ~C.S. Lewis
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From gruel to gourmet. Cranberry Stuffed Baked Oatmeal topped w/Cranberry Sauce
101 Ways to Make Oatmeal Desserts will be out this weekend in all the places you like to get books! So y'all start thinking about writing a review. And if you can't think of what to write ... go to the NYT best sellers, copy and paste one of those reviews. 😊
Play is not a break from learning. It is endless, delightful, deep, engaging, practical learning. It’s the doorway into the child’s heart! ~Vince Gowmon
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#ItsOkayToPlayWithYourFood
Play with Oatmeal
You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy. ~Nightbirde
#LifeIsDifficult
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Finding joy and happiness now w/oatmeal!
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough & more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. ~Melody Beattie
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Feasting on oatmeal.
Easy Overnight Oatmeal Topped w/Cherry Pie Filling & Chocolate. No more boring oatmeal! Here's a fabulously good overnight oatmeal recipe that's easy to memorize and fix!