Pretend it’s Summer Oats
May 17, 2011 at 5:26 pm 7 comments
Two years ago almost to the day, I was accepted to UCLA Law. The acceptance was both a huge honor and totally threw a wrench in my plans. I’d already committed to a school in Boston (and paid for a year’s worth of yoga <- don’t question what was important to me) but UCLA was my dream school with a program which was the reason I was interested in law school so I figured I at least needed to visit and give UCLA a shot. Once at the school I got the full court press from various staff members. One of the big selling points, outside of the strength of the school, was the weather. “It doesn’t rain between March and December” I was enthusiastically told. It was music to this Midwest to New England girl’s ears.
Well, I am here to tell you…
VICIOUS LIES!
Its 52 degrees and rainy right now. No bueno southern California. No bueno!
To compensate for this terrible weather I made summer style oats. Like yesterday, close your eyes and pretend.
In the mix:
- Brown sugar
- Cherries
- Coconut
- Granola
Coconut makes everything taste more like summer in my opinion and I just could resist adding these amazing cherries to the mix.
Its killing me that it was 90 and sunny the first week of finals and now it’s raining but the rain is actually coming at a decent time. I really need a running break. After 8 miles yesterday, my knees want a vacation from my vacation. I have an EPIC dinner planned tonight. Dinner will be SO epic my foodie friend and I have a countdown going. Stay tuned!
Entry filed under: Uncategorized. Tags: Breakfast, cooking, Food, its raining in los angeles, oatmeal, seasonal.
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Kate (What Kate is Cooking) | May 17, 2011 at 9:11 pm
This weather is depressing the hell out of me! What a cruel joke that I get out of school this week and this is what the weather is like :/
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leftcoastcontessa | May 17, 2011 at 11:27 pm
Glad to hear I’m not the only one suffering through cruddy weather on a break.
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kaitlinwithhoney | May 17, 2011 at 10:40 pm
This post is funny to me for two reasons. 1) I, like you, am totally complaining about the “cold” weather despite my upbringing. And 2) I cannot have oats in the summer (too hot!) so I can’t imagine having “pretend it’s summer oats!” Well, unless they’re overnight oats.
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leftcoastcontessa | May 17, 2011 at 11:26 pm
I’ve still never had Overnight Oats! This must be fixed.
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squigglefloey | May 18, 2011 at 3:27 am
Make an Epic Dinner Time video!
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Melissa @ TryingToHeal | May 18, 2011 at 4:02 pm
man, this weather is the pits. its even snowing up here! arg!!!
and i can’t wait to hear about this dinner. i’m intrigued!
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Brittany | May 18, 2011 at 7:10 pm
I love the name of these oats. And I too am pretty sad about this weather… I wore a scarf yesterday. NOT OKAY.