bircher muesli with oven roasted pear and plum

bircher muesli with oven roasted pear and plum

25 Mar 2011

What do eat for breakfast? Well I'm a creature of habit, and this is what I eat 6 days a week, bircher muesli with oven roasted fruit and yoghurt. Sometimes the fruit is oven roasted strawberry with rhubarb, whilst at other times it's Brigitte Hafner's oven roasted plum with pear. The yoghurt doesn't vary though, it's very yummy organic raspberry yoghurt. What do I have on the 7th day? I treat myself to an eggy breakfast but that's for another pronto post.

I've increased the amount of brown sugar in the recipe and decreased the honey a little, as I'm not too keen on the taste of honey. I've tried many versions of Bircher muesli but this is the one I like the best.

The recipe is a Bill Granger recipe that I copied into the the back of my work diary a long time ago. I think I scribbled it down from one of his recipe books whilst browsing in a book store. I used to do that all the time before the magic of the internet.

Here's the recipe for you, from Bill's Sydney Food.

Fresh Bircher Muesli
2 cups rolled oats
1 cup apple juice
1 cup coarsely grated apple
½ cup natural yoghurt
juice of 1 lemon
2 tablespoons honey

Place oats and apple juice in a bowl and soak for 1 hour, or overnight. Add grated apple, yoghurt & lemon juice to oat mixture & mix well. Spoon into serving bowls & top with fruit. Drizzle with honey.

Did you have a good day today? My day off from work was a busy one, but I managed to finish editing my shopshoot images from today's shoot so I had time to whip up a pronto post for you.

Have a great weekend and see you all again on Monday,

Jillian

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Oven Baked Rhubarb and Strawberry Compote

Oven Baked Rhubarb and Strawberry Compote

9 Dec 2008

How much do I like rhubarb? Let me count the ways. I grew up liking the taste of rhubarb. I remember the first time I tasted baked rhubarb when Mum cooked it with low calorie orange cordial using a recipe from the Weight Watcher's cookbook. Fast forward a few years when I lived in Edmonton, Canada. We used to go to Vi's Cafe across the street from my friend Sandi's condo for dessert. That was the first time I'd ever tasted chocolate pecan pie and rhubarb and strawberry pie. Yum!



I posted photos of my oven baked rhubarb a few months back but that was before I remembered how great rhubarb tastes with strawberries. I made a few adjustments to the recipe and now have oven baked rhubarb and strawberry with everything. 




I make it into a crumble with diced pear or apple; I used it to top those scones I made a few weeks back; I eat it for dessert topped with yoghurt and every morning it tops my breakfast of bircher muesli.



I'll be sad when rhubarb season is over but then I'll make my oven baked plums with pears and cinnamon which tastes almost as good!

Jillian

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