Lately, I spend maybe 57% of my time online looking at food. Not necessarily reading recipes, mind you, but dreaming about what I could be making if only I could get the right ingredients, without paying a small fortune.

Enough of that, I’m starting to modify all the recipes that I see so that they can be fit for a poorly-stocked kitchen (on a side note, thank goodness I have an oven, which most Chinese kitchens don’t). This morning, I did this with Everybody Likes Sandwiches’s Best Oatmeal Ever - Baked Oatmeal with Apples. I’m not a huge fan of super sweet breakfast foods, so I switched out the 3/4 cup of juice with 1 cup of water.

(original recipe here: http://everybodylikessandwiches.com/2008/09/best-oatmeal-ever-baked-oatmeal-with-apples/)

There are a million apples in my fridge, so I might as well put them to good use, right?

Ingredients

• 1 cup oatmeal
• 1 red apple, diced into 1/2 inch blocks?
• 1 cup whole milk
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 cup water
• 1 tablespoon dessicated coconut
• 1 generous heap of pre-sliced almonds

Preheat oven to 175C (close enough to 350F). Mix everything together in a bowl. Pour mixture into casserole dish (if you have one, which I don’t), then bake for about 30-40 minutes, or until all of the liquid is absorbed. Serve with milk or spoon it directly out of the bowl like a hungry barbarian.   

Makes many servings.