Earlier today a colleague of mine, the awe-inspiring Erica House (she’s got a fitness blog, if you’d like to see) made one of her rare errors. You see, she meant to post about her “magical egg white oatmeal,” but instead made a post about how to make an inedible bowl of glop. Mistakes happen, I understand.
While she fixes her post so that we can learn about this magical oatmeal we’ve all been hearing about, I figured I’d help out and post how to make my Super Oatmeal.
You’ll need the following:
- 3/4 cup of water
- 3/4 cup of oats
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Salt
- Raisins
- Butter (lots)
- Coconut milk (lots)
- An egg
- An apple (red delicious or granny smith if you’re feeling sassy)
- Whey protein so you can get swole
- Cinnamon
- Cacao nibs or something less weird, like nuts
Those should probably be in some particular order. What am I, Julia Child?
Throw the water and a healthy pinch of salt into a pot. Drizzle a ton of coconut milk in (optional and awesome). Don’t turn the heat on yet. Fire comes later.
Next, thinly slice a cored apple: