This Simple Banana Oatmeal Is Impressed By Our Favourite New Orleans Dessert

They are saying breakfast is an important meal of the day. I do not know if that is true or not, as a result of I virtually by no means eat it. Not as a result of I do not prefer it, and never as a result of I do not want it—more often than not, I am midway to fainting from low blood sugar earlier than I swallow my first mouthful of the day—however just because… truly, I don’t know why. I actually ought to eat breakfast.

There was a brief interval after I did, again in school. I made some extent of consuming a hearty first meal of the day, each day, and I felt like 1,000,000 bucks for the few months it lasted (which, come to consider it, would assist the declare that breakfast is an important meal). I had a microwave in my dorm room, and I would use it to cook dinner up a bowl of oatmeal from rolled oats. Then I would mash a banana into it and sprinkle some walnuts on high. It stored me working a minimum of till the early night, effectively via two hours of translating the Aeneid in superior Latin and a pair extra discussing Foucault and hermaphroditism in medical anthropology. That is the facility of oatmeal for you.

Anyway, that is the place I obtained the inspiration for this warming, high-energy breakfast, which, if I had been accountable, I would eat a minimum of, oh, I do not know, as soon as every week? It begins with that very same concept of oatmeal with bananas and walnuts and upgrades each aspect of it.

As an alternative of rolled oats, I switched to steel-cut for this model. They take a bit longer to cook dinner—about 20 to half-hour—however their nutty texture and taste are far, far superior.

Then, whereas the oats are cooking, I reap the benefits of that point to do some extra with the bananas. As an alternative of simply mashing them into the oatmeal uncooked, I cook dinner them first with somewhat butter and brown sugar till they’re frivolously caramelized. It is a riff on bananas Foster, with out the booze and ice cream (although, if booze and ice cream are the way you need to roll for breakfast, I will not cease you).

The walnuts go into the skillet with the caramelized bananas till they’re simply toasted and coated in a fragile sweet lacquer.

For a ultimate contact, l stir only a little bit of peanut butter into the oatmeal as a result of—peanut butter and bananas! It is all quite simple and apparent, actually.

To serve it, I add about half of the banana-walnut combination to the oatmeal and mash it in, then scoop it into bowls and put the rest on high as a garnish. A little bit grated orange zest helps get up all these browned, buttery, nutty flavors. And sure, you actually do must get up… it is time for varsity.

January 2016

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