Category: oats

Strawberry Overnight Oats

View the print-ready version of this recipe. What I love most about Overnight Oats is how nutrient rich and filling they are, plus the ingredients are ones I always have on hand. They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day so it’s nice to get started with something that isn’t just empty…


Just a Little Patience

“Overnight” often means to get something in a hurry. But with oats, it means the opposite. Overnight oats are currently having a moment as a breakfast fad, but the dish is based on a very old concept: the fact that you can prepare grains by soaking rather than cooking them. To make overnight oats, you…


Dark Chocolate Granola

This bittersweet dark chocolate granola makes for a decadent breakfast, especially when paired with homemade yogurt. Maple syrup gives the granola a subtle sweetness, while cocoa butter and cacao give it a rich chocolatey flavor balanced by the warmth of cinnamon and cloves. Makes about 8 servings 1 1/2 cups sprouted rolled oats 1 cup…


Perfect Steel-Cut Oats

By Chef Nick Wisman Exceptionally creamy and delicious, steel-cut oats are a great way to change up your morning oatmeal routine. Oats are rich in many of the B vitamins that work to reduce inflammation in the brain, potentially preserving your memory. Besides, oats are naturally gluten-free, are low in fat, high in protein and have…


A Few Minutes of Nighttime Prep Makes a Delicious, Healthy Breakfast the Next Day

It takes just a few minutes in the evening to mix rolled oats and almond milk and you have a head start on a healthy breakfast the following morning. In the morning, top the oatmeal with fresh fruit and toasted nuts. Make up to four jars at once to keep in the fridge for quick…


Oats May Be the Most Underrated Ingredient in Your Pantry — Here’s Why

One of the healthiest, most underrated superfoods out there? Oats. Ask any dietitian or doctor and they’ll tell you that you should be absolutely be eating more of them. They’re incredibly versatile, affordable and shelf-stable as well as nutritious. You can serve oatmeal sweet or savory; hot or cold (pardon, “overnight”). Stir in cinnamon, nut…


Oatmeal Lotion for Chemotherapy-Induced Rash

Oats are put to the test against cetuximab-type chemo side effects to see just how soothing and anti-inflammatory they can be.


These Energy Bites Are Delicious and Easy to Make

Different types of food can give you different types of energy. Sweet foods such as cookies and candy give you a lot of energy, and fast—but that energy lasts for only a little bit of time, since sugar moves quickly through your body. But foods such as these energy bites that combine complex carbohydrates (oats!),…


The Humble Glory of Oatmeal

“You have to eat oatmeal or you’ll dry up. Anybody knows that.” The above claim has never been disproved. It was authored by Kay Thompson and uttered by a 6-year-old girl named Eloise, who lived in The Plaza Hotel in New York with Weenie the dog and Skipperdee the turtle. Ever since I first saw…


Clapcake

Clapcake, clapbread, or havercake from Cumbria, northern England, and clap scones from Scotland, resemble the thin crispbread we usually associate only with Scandinavia. “The Diary of Celia Fiennes” from 1698 tells us how these clapcakes were made in Cumbria: They mix their flour with water, so soft as to rowle it in their hands into…