My husband’s parents visited us this week and we ate at a lot of restaurants. A lot. And although I kept trying to remind myself to photograph my meals, whenever my plate arrived at the table, I would inevitably forget. So this week’s post might not have many meal ideas. But it does have an overnight oatmeal recipe!
Here’s what I ate this week:
Ginger Peach Overnight Oatmeal // Since peaches are in season, I’ve made this a few times this week. Tastes like summer! Stir together one diced (ripe!) peach, 1/2 cup of oatmeal, 1/2 cup of almond milk (I like to use the vanilla kind), and about a teaspoon of minced crystallized ginger in a resealable container. Refrigerate overnight; stir and then eat the next morning. If the peach was ripe enough, you shouldn’t need to add any sweetener.
Thrown Together Black Bean Salad // This was made with leftover ingredients from a recipe I’m posting next week. It’s black beans, zucchini, cilantro, mango, and green onions with a dressing made from fresh lime juice and olive oil. It was good as a salad, but even better as a salsa.
Walnut Encrusted Tempeh // Tempeh is one of my favorite proteins and now this is my favorite way to prepare it.
Mediterranean Kidney Bean Salad // As I photographed this, all I could think about was the scene from Mad Men when the executive from Heinz was talking about how people didn’t want to see kidney beans in an ad because they’re gross looking. And I tend to agree with that–they’re not exactly the easiest food to style and photograph. But I love this salad!
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I know, I went out to dinner Tuesday and even had my camera and forgot to take a pic of half of it then figured why bother with the rest. Plus I didn’t want to explain to the family what I was doing and answer 50 questions! HA!
Ha! I know. I don’t bring my real camera out and I couldn’t even manage with my phone. Lame!
Peach and ginger….YUM! I haven’t had a peach (beyond my Cho yogurt) in forever. I’m definitely craving one now.
This week was the first I’ve had them this year–I live in the south, so they’re in season now.
That overnight oatmeal is SCREAMING at me to eat it.
And peaches are in season here in NC now!
I love that your oatmeal recipe is a no-cook version … sometimes hot oatmeal on a warm summer day just doesn’t do it. But this would be so refreshing. Bet it would be great as a summer desert, too. Thanks for sharing!
Yes! And it does taste like a dessert when you use a ripe peach. No sugar needed!
Black bean anything is my weakness. Looks good!
Well that’s a good weakness to have–they are so healthy!
The peach oatmeal looks fabulous. My husband would love that, he loves anything with peaches.
So do I–I was so excited when they started popping up at the farmers market again!
Oooo! I cannot wait to try the ginger peach overnight oatmeal! Sounds delicious!
If you like overnight oatmeal, you will love this one!
All these recipes look fabulous, but your ginger peach overnight oatmeal is really calling out my name! Thanks of much for your kind comment on my blog. You have so many healthy and delicious recipes on your blog I don’t know where to start!
Aw, thank you!
As always, so many delicious flavors here. I can’t wait to make this oatmeal and beans are one of my favorite meatless ways to enjoy low cal protein.
You totally need to make overnight oatmeal! It’s the easiest breakfast ever and it’s so healthy. I don’t even like hot oatmeal anymore.
Mediterranean Kidney Bean Salad looks so good. I love bean salads and I love kidney beans, so this is perfect for me.
Bean salads are one of my favorite lunches. I make them over the weekend and have them throughout the week. So easy!
YUM! Hope you all had a nice visit with the family. The bean salad looks delicious!
Thank you! It was a nice visit and thankfully the weather cooperated–only a little bit of rain & not too hot either. When my family visited, it rained the whole time & we couldn’t do much!
The oatmeal: such a magical combination of ingredients! I have never tried it, buy I already love it!
Crystallized ginger makes everything taste magical!
That ALL looks delicious!!
Sounds good, I have been making cherry overnight oatmeal with sweet cherries.
I need to try that! I love cherries.
Oh wow, that looks so yummy – I want to swim in it. I’ve never made overnight oatmeal but I’ve been learning more about it – it’s time for me to try it – I’m just SO undomestic…
You can do it! Overnight oatmeal is the easiest thing ever–just stir the ingredients together and eat it in the morning.
I don’t have any crystallized ginger in the cupboard now, but you are making me want to stock up for when peaches come in. Thanks for the link to the walnut-encrusted tempeh, I’m always looking for new ideas for tofu and tempeh and it looks great!
My favorite local spice shop sells crystallized ginger at the register, so it always ends up being my impulse buy whenever I’m there. I’ve been putting it in everything I can think of!
Just wanted to let you know I ate this twice last week! I used sugar once and honey the other time and both times it was so good and so easy!
Yay! I’m so glad you liked it. And you can use just about any fruit in it too. I’m trying cherries for breakfast tomorrow…
I finally got around to trying overnight oatmeal last night using this recipe, and I love it! Cold oatmeal is so much nicer when it’s hot out, plus I was trying to microwave the instant packets for my breakfast at work and that was just turning out gross.
Thanks for turning me on to something new and fabulous (and healthy!).
I’m so glad you liked it! I feel the same way about oatmeal now–I used to eat it hot year-round, but having it cold is perfect for summer. And adding lots of fruit makes it so much more filling than those packets!