Welcome to the Foodie Extravaganza!
We are a group of bloggers who love to blog about food! Each month we will decide on an all-famous National Monthly Food Holiday in which we will base our recipes around. This month’s the ingredient is oatmeal. Yes, January is National Oatmeal Month along with a whole array of other delightful things!! Get excited!! We hope you all enjoy our delicious oatmeal treats this month and come back to see what we bring for you next month. If you are a blogger and would like to join our group and blog along with us, come join our Facebook page Foodie Extravaganza. We would love to have you! If you’re a spectator looking for delicious tid-bits check out our Foodie Extravaganza Pinterest Board! Looking for our previous parties? Check them out HERE. Be sure to read to the end as this month we have an awesome giveaway for you!
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I wasn’t originally planning to participate in this month’s Foodie Extravaganza. December was a crazy month, and I didn’t think I’d have the time. And then…I got sick.
You’d think that would make things worse, and it kind of did for things like enjoying Christmas. But you see, when I’m sick my comfort food is lugaw. Lugaw is a Filipino rice porridge similar to the better known Chinese congee or Korean jook. It’s the perfect food for a cold, or in my case, sore throat – it’s hot and thick with enough substance to fill you up.
So as I set about making my rice porridge, I remembered Stacy’s comment on my eggnog rice pudding post – why is it that we don’t think of savory uses for grains like oats? Good question, Stacy!
So I took the challenge, switched out my rice for steel cut oats and proceeded to make my lugaw. The verdict? Delicious! The result is just as comforting, warming and filling as the traditional porridge, and the steel cut oats lend a satisfying chew and bite that rice doesn’t have. Bonus: by making it with oats instead of rice, you get the extra minerals and fiber that oats bring to the table!
{Recipe} Lemon Ginger Oat Porridge #foodieextravaganza
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients
- 5 cups chicken broth
- 1 cup steel cut oats
- 1/2 tsp salt (or to taste)
- 1 inch ginger root, minced or grated (apx 1 Tbs)
- green onion, thinly sliced
- lemon, cut into wedges
Instructions
- Bring chicken broth to a boil and add oats, ginger and salt.
- Cook, stirring occasionally, 20-30 minutes or until oats are cooked through and soft with just a little bite.
- Top with green onion and a squeeze of lemon.
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Looking for more awesome new uses for oats? Check out the rest of the #foodieextravaganza!
- Apple Pie Overnight Oats / Wallflour Girl
- Bacon Whole Grain Granola Bars / Pantry Friendly Cooking
- Berry Oatmeal Super Smoothie / Keep Moving Forward With Me
- Brown Sugar Barbecue Meatballs / Fearlessly Creative Mammas
- Chickpea Veggie Soup / Food Lust People Love
- Homemade Cranberry Almond Granola / Rhubarb and Honey
- Lemon Ginger Oat Porridge / The Joyful Foodie
- Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies / Making Miracles
- Mango Poppyseed Oat Muffins / The Sweet {Tooth} Life
- Mini Meatball Subs / The Freshman Cook
- Monster Cookie Granola / From Gate to Plate
- Mushroom Ginger Oat Congee / Culinary Adventures with Camilla
- Oat Cinnamon Rolls / Passion Kneaded
- Oatmeal Pancakes / Sew You Think You Can Cook
- Peanut Butter Oat Snack Balls / Mrs. Penguin
- Vanilla Salted Oatmeal Cookies / Baking in Pyjamas
- Southwestern Oatmeal Cakes / A Day in the Life on the Farm
PLUS: The oat-guru Kathy Hester has been so generous in donating one of her books to one of our lucky Foodie Extravaganza readers. With her book OATrageous Oatmeals: Delicious & Surprising Plant-Based Dishes From This Humble, Heart-Healthy Grain (affiliate link), you will learn how to use heart-healthy oatmeal in new and exciting ways! You can find recipes such as Steel-cut Oat Sausage Crumbles, Chickpea Veggie Soup, and Blackberry Mojito Overnight Oats. Now go enter this awesome giveaway because I’m super jealous that I can’t enter! If you don’t win, feel free to grab the link from above to purchase your own!
Terms & Conditions: This giveaway is open to residents of the United States and Canada only, age 18 and older. The OATragous Oatmeals Cookbook giveaway runs from Wednesday, January 7, 2015 12:00am ET through Thursday, January 15, 2015 12:00am ET. Winners will be randomly chosen and announced on January 16, 2015. Winners will also be contacted by email and will have 24 hours to respond to the email. If a winner does not respond in that time a new winner will be chosen. For more information, see the full terms and conditions in the Rafflecopter widget.
