What are your favorite things to mix into oatmeal?

[summersupper]

Taking all suggestions! Starting a new healthy breakfast regimen for the new year :-)

I like sweet, savory, sweet-salty, and weird cult flavor combinations. Gimme whatcha got.

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I'll start.

Classic: blueberries + walnuts // sliced almonds + nonfat vanilla // Greek yogurt // almond milk

Congee style: scallions + cilantro + soy sauce + sesame oil + chili paste // sriracha

Cozy: sugared ginger + dried cranberries + tiny splash maple syrup + squeeze of lemon + Greek yogurt

Late brunch: maple syrup + pecans + sliced strawberries // cinnamon // cayenne powder

"Parisian": overripe pears + yogurt

And sometimes I'll fry leftover oatmeal in sliced container-sized shapes in some browned butter and a sprinkle of salt, then top with maple syrup. Delicious!

[Sensuous]

At home I like steel-cut oatmeal with walnuts, raisins, bananas, and a little brown sugar.
In a local restaurant I recently had a delicious bowl topped with strawberries, blueberries, almonds, and bananas. This healthy breakfast with a small black coffee came at the price of $11 with the tip! I was shocked. Isn't it a shame what good food costs?

[sunflwrsdh]

That really is outrageous!

[jarona]

Blueberries.
Yoghurt
fake sugar then a bit of salt.
nutmeg.
Raisins
Bananas (mashed)
craisins.

[ipsedixit]

Sometimes separately, or sometimes in combo with one another:

- Cracked egg
- Fried egg
- Chinese pork floss
- Honey and mint
- Roasted, chopped and salted nuts (almonds, walnuts, cashews)
- Brown sugar and bananas
- Chinese Thousand Year Old Eggs
- Salted preserved duck eggs
- Crushed potato chips

[debbiel]

I'm pretty intrigued with the crushed potato chips.

[magiesmom]

I like nut butters, especially almond or sunflower seed, or an egg, or leftover veggies and a bit if cumin.

[debbiel]

Oh yes on the butters. In addition to nut butters, I also like to stir in peanut butter. Or for a particularly decadent day, nutella.

[Pat Hammond]

My stand-by is whole berry cranberry sauce. I begin stockpiling them as soon as they arrive in the markets and should have plenty until Spring. I don't find a need for any additional sweetener.

[debbiel]

Probably fine to have a new thread since long threads overwhelm some folks, but here's a similar thread from the past: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/322089
For cooked oatmeal:
pumpkin or butternut puree
scallions, parmesan, pepper
apples and walnuts
bananas and pecans
nothing but a splash of heavy cream
smoked paprika

Uncooked rolled oats, yogurt, and:
grated apples and cinnamon
fresh blueberries in season
frozen blueberries and nutmeg
sliced bananas and nutmeg
honey

[sunflwrsdh]

A chopped Empire apple. a teaspoon of brown sugar, and sprinkles of cinnamon and nutmeg.

[EWSflash]

Dried cherries
Golden raisins
regular raisins in the absence of golden ones or cherries
Brown sugar

[Emme]

for breakfast or dessert? :)

-dried bing cherries and nutella nuggets
-cooked diced cinnamon apples, vanilla, and cooked pastry crust pieces

-wild mushrooms, scallions, garlic, onions, tamari, and seasoned rice wine vinegar; made with miso broth instead of water

-favorite - vanilla and salt... and maybe a dash of sweetener