Ah that time of year is upon us. You know, the one where there is a slight breeze in the air, the mornings are cooler, the leaves are juuuust barely starting to turn. It's almost fall. You can recognize it by the increasingly annoying Facebook posts about football. It's almost as annoying as Facebook during election time. I understand I am the minority that doesn't care AT ALL about football, but come on people, work with me. If you insist on posting about how excited, or sad, you are about _____ team, ____ game, or _____ player, then first take a quick gander at your news feed and use this opportunity to post something original. To really make your mark. "Go Broncos!!" and "I love you Payton!!" are examples of unoriginal content. Perhaps think to yourself, "Hmm, 4 people have already said this. Maybe, just maybe, I should say something else, or nothing at all."
By the way, Colorado people looooove fall. It's like, "trendy" to like fall out here. I'm just saying, it's okay to like summer too, Coloradans, it's ok. Can you sense how "judgey" I am lately? I think recent levels of elevated stress have sent my filter running. It's probably temporary, but maybe not :) One of my last posts started with a 2 paragraph rant and was later reduced to just the slightly annoying dog accident and good ol' "moth-in-the-shirt" story. Now there is no editing...it might become that kind of blog. Excited?! Hey, thanks for reading ;-)
On another note, this time of year is awesome because of peaches. That's right, peaches. (Finally she is getting to the food part...) Colorado has the best peaches I'm convinced. They come from a little town called Palisade on the western slope. It's a lovely place with fruit stands on every corner. And wineries! I'm a little obsessed with peaches right now because they are soooo ripe and perfect, and there is such a small window every year to get good peaches. My daily peach consumption is currently averaging 3 peaches per day. I have been singing to myself "...millions of peaches, peaches for me..." for the past week. I'm almost as annoying as Facebook football fans.
When Sunday breakfast came along this week, I was sad that we didn't have eggs, but excited that we had peaches. Still sad about the eggs. I thought Denny would be sad too, but he hid it well. When I suggested peach oatmeal, he was all over it. You know me, always wanting to grill sh*t, so there I went. Grilling at breakfast.
This is really simple and a nice little way to spice up boring oatmeal.
4 ripe peaches, pitted and halved
1 14 oz. can coconut milk, unsweetened
1tsp ground cinnamon
1tsp ground nutmeg1½ cups sugar
(Cinnamon or vanilla ice cream also works!)
Rolled oats, or quick oats
Halve the peaches and dip in coconut milk, then in sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg mixture. Grill for about 5min on each side until you get some nice grill marks.
Cook oatmeal per instructions on package. Spoon into bowl, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar or drizzle generously with honey, place peaches on top.
(We used the extra coconut milk to cook our oats, with a little water to make up the difference. When sweetened with cinnamon sugar and/or honey it tasted great! Without a sweetener, not so much.)
Recipe adapted from Gilded Fork.
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