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Cherry on Top Overnight Oats

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Overnight oats with a cherry on top!! 😉 Hotel style! I only have a handful of dishes to work with so if you do not have a mason jar no worries! Grab a sealable plastic container and get going on these fabulous oats!

This is the kind of breakfast that makes you want to get up outta bed on a Saturday morning, grab your cup of jo, and sit down with a good book while enjoying your bowl of oats. Oatmeal is a smart breakfast choice! Whole oats are the way to go because they do not contain all of the added sugar that is in the instant packets. I am totally into cold overnight oats these days! I would actually prefer cold oatmeal to hot. My college self would probably give my current self the stink eye for eating cold oats. Cold overnight oats are so good!

cherry on top overnight oats

This recipe calls for just six basic ingredients! Grab ’em and you are on your way to a fantabulous bowl of overnight oats!

 

Here is what this oatmeal has goin on:

  • Whole Oats
  • Skim Milk or your preference
  • Vanilla Yogurt-prefer Chobani Greek Vanilla
  • Cherries, fresh or frozen
  • Cinnamon
  • Chia Seeds

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Oatmeal and I go way back. I am a lil reluctant to admit that I used to eat a lot of oatmeal in college. Sometimes even 3 times a day. I currently have a “I’m being judged look on my face,” but we are like friends now, right? 😉 I was particularly obsessed with banana bread and cinnamon roll oatmeal. Yes, they were in the packets. Again, I have the “I’m being judged” look on my face! Hahaha!

Back in college, I remember being victim to the freshman 15. I mean c’mon, all you do in college is study and eat-how can you not fall into that at first? Anyhew, my sophomore year I really got into running. a lot. Running took away my stress and freshman 15 so it was a win-win! At some point in there I discovered that I actually liked oatmeal. Even after college when I moved in with my bestie, Molly, I held onto my love for oatmeal and believe I passed it on to her!! We trained for and ran the Lincoln Marathon together! Molly was the best person ever to run with!! Somehow we could be running 5, 15, even 20 miles together and I could find myself laughing! It was AWESOME! You wanna guess what our usual post-run meal was…whole oats topped with fruit and yogurt! DE-LISH!

Cherry on Top Overnight Oats…TRY ‘EM!! 🙂 For a salty and sweet treat, try these topped with crushed pretzels! YUMMAY!

cherry on top overnight oats

 

cherry on top overnight oats

Cherry on Top Overnight Oats

Megan
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Course Breakfast
Servings 1

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 cup old fashioned oats
  • 1/2 cup skim milk
  • 1/4 cup low fat vanilla yogurt- I prefer Chobani greek vanilla
  • 1/2 cup pitted cherries fresh or frozen
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon chia seeds

Instructions
 

  • Combine oats and milk to mason jar or sealable container. Add layer of pitted cherries and then yogurt followed by a few more cherries. Top off with cinnamon and chia seeds. Refrigerate oats overnight and enjoy in the morning or after 2-3 hours.

 

 

Cozy Slow Cooker Chicken & Wild Rice Soup

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Time for some cozy slow cooker chicken & wild rice soup! Delicious combination of chicken, wild rice, sweet potatoes, onion, carrots, and celery with a blend of seasonings.

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How is it Thanksgiving already?! Tis the season of fun family get-togethers, cold weather, and delicious food! What is different about 2016 for us? A whole heapful! For the months of November and December we are living in a hotel…ya the shock factor has pretty much gone away. Now my husband and I seem to be in the “yep, this is where we live” stage. We have reached acceptance! Haha! We cannot complain though, because this hotel is fantastic! We have free laundry, a dishwasher, and someone to clean our room! 😉

cozy slow cooker chicken & wild rice soup

Living in a hotel means we do quick and easy meals like this simple winner winner slow cooker chicken soup dinner! We have an electric stovetop and a microwave to work with so if we want a warm and cozy meal we sometimes have to be a little more creative. I am sure glad this hotel has a lending cabinet where we were able to borrow the slow cooker for this yummy meal.

I brought two small appliances with me to the hotel- my keurig because well I need access to coffee at all times if ya know what I mean, and my panini grill/griddle. We have been here for 25 days so far and I have made a real effort to cook on a regular basis. Call me crazy, but I just would rather not eat fast food if I don’t have to. Some days it is okay, but I just don’t care for it much.

For a little look back, here are a few of the things I have cooked so far:
Penne pasta with meat sauce, hamburger soup, orecchiette with sausage and tomatoes, sloppy joes, grilled burgers, cajun style andouille, kale, and barley stew, and turkey, avocado, & hummus paninis. I am excited to work with an oven again!

slow cooker chicken & wild rice soup

I wish you all a safe and happy Thanksgiving. I am so looking forward to our new beginning in Kansas in a few weeks! Post turkey day, try out this cozy slow cooker chicken & wild rice soup!

slow cooker chicken & wild rice soup

Cozy Slow Cooker Chicken & Wild Rice Soup

3 Scoops of Sugar
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 8 hours
Total Time 8 hours 20 minutes
Course Soup

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/2 cups brown and wild rice blend
  • 1 1/4- 1 1/2 lbs chicken thighs skinless and boneless
  • 1 onion diced
  • 2 cups celery chopped
  • 2 cups carrots chopped
  • 1 small sweet potato peeled and chopped
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 2 teaspoons dried parsley
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground sage
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 6 cups low-sodium chicken stock
  • 1/2 cup heavy cream

Instructions
 

  • Combine all ingredients except the heavy cream in a large slow cooker.
  • Cook on low for 6-8 hours. Remove bay leaves. Shred chicken thighs.
  • In a medium bowl, add heavy cream and 1-2 scoopfuls of soup.
  • Slowly whisk soup into cream and return mixture back into slow cooker and incorporate into remaining soup.
  • Season with salt and pepper to taste.

 

Saturday Night Orecchiette with Sausage and Tomatoes

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Hi Friends! Welcome to my food blog! I am Megan, blogger here at 3 Scoops of Sugar. And today I am crazy about this orecchiette with sausage and tomatoes!!

If you are at all curious as to how life has been going around here…to sum it up in a few words it is most definitely absolutely unpredictable. My fam is living in a hotel for the month of November. We sold our house and will be leaving Nebraska to move to Kansas! I am excited for our new little adventure and all the craziness that will come along with it. Our kids are 2, 3, and 4! I am even forced to take a second glance at those numbers after I type them! I mean 2! 3! 4! Oh man, I guess you can tell who runs the house! One thing that is not crazy is this orecchiette pasta with sausage and tomatoes. This meal is AMAZINGLY DELISH!!

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Orecchiette pasta with sausage is a fun twist on the whole pasta/meat combo. And the tomatoes add another burst of flavor. My favorite part of making this meal is cooking the tomatoes until you are able to press and burst them open! Soo fun! 😉

Pairing the sausage with this pasta is perfect because there is already so much flavor in the sausage.

orecchiette pasta with sausage and tomatoes

This past weekend my daughter and I headed to my parent’s house for some mommy/daughter time away from the hotel. It was awesome! We headed to the park, watched the SWEET HUSKER GAME with my sister and brother-in-law and their two boys, and made this wonderful orecchiette pasta!! 🙂

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If you are at all wondering, this meal was incredibly easy to make! BONUS! Oh YA!

And there is nothing like grabbing a yummy bowl of pasta and sausage on a cool Fall night. Especially when you have run around after a 2 year old all day long…
I adapted this recipe from Mark Vetri at Food & Wine.

orecchiette with sausage and tomatoes

orecchiette with sausage and tomatoes

Saturday Night Orecchiette with Sausage and Tomatoes

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Course Main

Ingredients
  

  • 1 pound orecchiette
  • 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
  • 3/4 pound ground sausage
  • 1 pint cherry tomatoes
  • 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
  • 2 ounces mozzarella or provolone cheese shredded
  • salt to taste

Instructions
 

  • Cook orecchiette according to manufacturer's directions in a pot of boiling, salted water.
  • Drain pasta, reserving 3/4 cup of pasta water.
  • Meanwhile, in large skillet, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil over medium-high heat.
  • Add sausage and cook through for approximately 8-10 minutes.
  • Transfer sausage to a bowl and set aside.
  • Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil and tomatoes and crushed red pepper.
  • Cook over medium-high heat for about 5 minutes until tomatoes are soft enough to easily burst. Burst all of the tomatoes with a wooden spoon.
  • Add the reserved pasta water and cook for another 5 minutes until most of liquid is reduced.
  • Add pasta and sausage to skillet and remaining tablespoon of olive oil. Stir for another couple minutes until pasta is evenly coated.
  • Remove from heat and top with cheese.