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The Cereal Report: Quaker Oats Real Medleys
The Cereal Report is a column in which PCFG conducts various cereal reviews, of new or limited products, as well as providing brief backgrounds on the cereal. Cereal is delicious and fairly cheap as far as meals go. Everyone should eat cereal!
I started eating Quaker’s Real Medleys oatmeal not too long after it first came out, and I enjoy it. Well, not all the flavors, but most of them. They’re my go-to instant oatmeal during oatmeal season. They have more stuff in them (like dried fruit and nuts) than the regular packets of oatmeal, and I find them to be more filling. However, this snack report is not about oatmeal. It is in fact about the new cold cereal version of Real Medleys that Quaker has released. Considering how much I enjoy the oatmeal, when I saw the new cereal I knew I wanted to try it out. I got the cherry almond pecan flavor, but it also comes in peach apple walnut.
Smoothie Sunday: Pumpkin Peach Smoothie
Well, this is the last Sunday in September, which means by this time next week it will be October. Which also means it’s the start of pumpkin season! Let this smoothie help you transition into fall. I used the pumpkin similar to how I used the avocado in the avocado mango smoothie a couple of weeks ago. And like that smoothie it came out pretty thick. But it’s definitely yummy, and a nice intro into fall breakfasts.
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Quick Recipe: Grilled Garlic Naan
For those of you coming to this recipe after seeing our cooking demo at the Long Island Garlic Festival this past weekend, welcome! We’re glad you liked our demo/free samples enough to try making this recipe yourself. I hope you’ll check out and try some of our other recipes as well.
Most people’s experience with naan is from eating it in Indian restaurants. Naan is a leavened flatbread that originated in Asia. Traditionally it is baked in a clay oven called a tandoor, but since we, and I’m assuming most of you, don’t have a tandoor we’ve taken to cooking it on the grill. And if you don’t have a grill, or the weather isn’t conducive to grilling outdoors, you can also use a cast iron grill pan. Trust me – you’re going to want to find a way to make this naan. It’s garlicky, and buttery, and delicious. And it goes great with chicken tikka.
Smoothie Sunday: Cinnamon Apple Oatmeal Smoothie
The last oatmeal smoothie I made turned out really yummy, so I wanted to give another one a shot. Again, I used overnight oatmeal as a base. This time I decided to use more traditional oatmeal additions in the form of cinnamon apple. Since I don’t have a super-mega blender I knew that blending fresh apples would be rather difficult. So instead I opted to use dried apples, rehydrated in the oatmeal overnight. It worked out really well. I also upped the apple flavor by adding applesauce. Overall it was another successful oatmeal smoothie!
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Food 101: How to Roast Garlic
We’ve had garlic on our mind a lot lately, due to all our prep work for the upcoming Garlic Festival. There are so many things you can do with garlic. Yet when people think of garlic, what generally springs mind is the characteristics associated with raw garlic- super strong smell, strong flavor, and sometimes even spicy. There’s a softer side to garlic however, and that arrives through roasting. When you roast garlic it gets soft, and yes, even kind of sweet. Oh yeah, and the aroma is heavenly. The best part is that roasting garlic is super easy. Follow me!
The Poor Couple's Food Guide 
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