WIAW: Breakfast Edition

Soooo, I’m guess by this point you’ve figured out that I decided to jump on the WIAW bandwagon.  Not because I’m a food blogger and felt like it was expected but because I happen to think some of my daily eats are pretty darn delicious and I wanted to share.

But my life had other plans.  Like lunch out with a friend I haven’t “come out” about the whole food blogging thing to and less than picture-worthy leftovers for dinner.  Lucky for you, however, I had one of the best bowls of oatmeal this morning, so consider this the breakfast edition of WIAW.  Maybe one day I’ll get it together and provide a full day summary.  Baby steps, my friends.  Baby steps.

Did you know I have a rough life?

It’s true.  I have no job, no school, no obligations whatsoever, except maybe coffee/happy hour dates with friends.  It’s hard being me.  Before you start to think I’m bragging, let me assure you that having nothing to do is actually not all that much fun and I actually feel like I’m going through a bit of an identity crisis now that I’m no longer a student but that’s a story for another day. 

Point of story: Sometimes I need a little something something to get me through the day.

Before you get the wrong impression, let me assure you that just a splash of Bailey’s Irish Cream went into my hot (read: cooked) oatmeal.  Despite how often I’ve been joking to Joey that I’m going to use the Bailey’s leftover from making Irish Carbomb Cupcakes (yes, you read that right) in overnight oats, I prefer to only use alcohol in recipes where the actual alcohol is cooked out if it’s before 5 PM.  Thus, hot oatmeal sounded like the perfect way to make this happen.

But before breakfast could be served, peanut butter had to be stirred.

And stir I did.  Jenny wasn’t kidding, that really is an arm workout!

Now that’s what I like to call crunchy!

In the oatmeal mix:

• 1/2 cup rolled oats
• 1 cup unsweetened almond milk
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 banana, whipped in
• tablespoon of ground flax, because I’m still convinced it fluffs up my oatmeal
• splash of Bailey’s Irish Cream, stirred in towards the end of cooking

Et voila!

I wanted this bowl to hold me over till my late lunch and it definitely did the trick. 

I attribute this to the lovely toppings of:

• granola
• raisins (I almost just wrote dried raisins, doh!)
• crunchy (and might I add melty) peanut butter
• almond butter sauce

Easily one of my top ten bowls of oatmeal.

I’m off to Joey’s softball game!

What did you have for breakfast??