WW friendly Baked Oatmeal Cake (and its not really cake...)

Happy Foodie Friday!

I saw this recipe in a Weight Watcher's cookbook.... but I never made it.

Truthfully, it did not sound so tasty until I saw it on my favorite recipe blog, My kitchen cafe. Why is it that when you see others enjoying something you suddenly want it too? but it worked out really well in this case.

Now I am kicking myself that I could have been making this for a few years before I actually did. It delicious, and Weight Watcher's friendly and is the perfect recipe for making when you have a little more time on a Saturday morning (or for overnight company.... hint....hint....). And it would be so good in the middle of winter.... it would be worth it to get out of the warm bed...

This makes 4 servings, so here is the plan...

The first morning you make it, it is perfect to eat like a piece of cake. You don't even need a bowl. Just pick it up and carry it around the kitchen with you. The next morning, when warmed in the oven, it is a little dry, so much better if microwaved with some milk.

Here it is with my modifications:

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease (or Pam) a 8x8 pan.

Mix 3 cups oatmeal, 1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup applesauce, 1 cup of milk, 1 cup egg beaters, 1/2 tablespoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt and 1 cup (or more) frozen blueberries (or cut up some bananas- my stand in when Blueberries are trying to be stretched at my house).

Cook for 20-25 minutes.

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Beautiful moments from my week...

9:45p. Already in bed. A knock at the door. My neighbor hands me chocolate cake and a fork. My husband gets the big glass of milk and we sit in bed eating out of the Tupperware container. I have a great neighbor, great husband and a great bed.

This is one of the most beautiful moment of my week.

Blueberry cake masquerading as bread

I love to make bread.

I however, have not completely mastered the whole yeast thing... and by mastered, I mean, I really cant use yeast at all because I have no clue what I am doing with it, which is a problem when making bread.

The water is too hot and kills the yeast, or it is too cool and it does not activate, and when do you really know its ready anyway?

There are thousands of things that can wrong with yeast. I know, because I have experienced 947 of them.

Anyway...I try to solve my little problem by looking for bread recipes without yeast.

I also love blueberries. I really love them.

I love them so much I pay $5 for each small container of them in the dead of winter to put fresh ones in my morning oatmeal... and I go through two of them a week. (I think my husband may have just passed out....) Now that the blueberries are $1.50 for the large containers, I have been buying extra to throw in the freezer.

So I love bread recipes without yeast and blueberries.

Blueberry bread!

This recipe I got from recipezaar was a little disappointing as it was not really bread.... it was cake, just calling itself bread. Every time I had a piece, I said to anyone in earshot, "This is not bread. This is secretly cake calling itself bread." and anyone in earshot did not really care, as they were busy eating all the cake, I mean, bread. No one else was complaining about it.

This is the recipe I found, with my own modifications:

Pre-heat oven to 350.

Mix 3/4 cup sugar with 3 cups of complete pancake mix, 1/2 cup milk (I used buttermilk), 1/2 cup chopped black walnuts (I used 1 cup walnuts), 1 egg and 1 cup blueberries (I used 1 1/2 cup frozen blueberries).

Bake in two loaf pans for 40-45 minutes.

Another hint that it is not really bread...it taste best when it is cooled and not hot, straight from the oven.

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$10 fresh flowers from Wal-Mart

put into my nice crystal vase, keeps me from piling clean clothes, mail and clutter on the kitchen table. It works for me, Wednesday.

Weekend accomplishment

Its been quite a while since I had a weekend project to show off. Its not that I have not been doing anything... no, I've been quite busy.... but not with any projects you can wrap up in a weekend.

Before:
Just a funny shaped closet with a concrete floor underneath the front stairs















During:














After a few coats of paint (country white), new carpet and custom built (by the hubs) shelves, I have a nice little storage area















I also have one less excuse as to why I have not completely unpacked from moving in more than a year ago.

I'm Planning To....

Start this bible study with Beth
















Take the massive amount of recipes I have collected over the years and put them into my own little cookbook, organized into chapters... its a big job:

















Make a Lily bed in the back yard and plant these Amaryllis bulbs.










They don't look like much now.... but will all look like this one day




Dress up my foyer like this














Go to bed very early with some good reading material: