Homemade Pumpkin Spice Oatmeal

I was craving something new one morning. I have been eating a lot of oatmeal and wanted some oatmeal but I wished I had a different "flavor" to add to it besides my typical brown sugar and cinnamon. I had recently seen a pumpkin oatmeal on a blog I follow but I did not have the ingredients to make it her way. I wondered if I added a little pumpkin to my oatmeal and maybe a little pumpkin pie spice if it would taste good? It tasted so good I have had it a number of mornings this week. Why didn't I think of this sooner. 

I decided to take pictures and share my "recipe" with you.

 First you need some pumpkin. My daughter had made 2 recipes using pumpkin recently. The first morning I tried this recipe I had to scrape a bunch of pumpkin of the top of a container of the leftover pumpkin she had frozen. That was not easy. I then let the container thaw and put the rest of the pumpkin in an ice cube tray. After these are all gone I will be taking another can of pumpkin and doing this again. I LOVE IT.

 The size of one ice cube is just the right amount for one serving of oatmeal.

Of course it depends on the size of your ice cube trays. These ice cubes are not that big. It seems to be about a tablespoon and a half of pumpkin or so... I didn't really measure.

 I stick one ice cube in my bowl...

 then microwave it 'til it is thawed.

Then I make a normal single serving of oatmeal.

I put my oatmeal in the bowl on top of the pumpkin then I add a sprinkle of Pumpkin Pie Spiced Sugar.

This is our Pumpkin Pie Spice. My daughter made it from a recipe she found online.

 She used this Pumpkin Pie Spice

to make some some Pumpkin Pie Spice Sugar,

 like cinnamon sugar but with pumpkin pie spice instead. CLICK THIS LINK to find her recipe for Pumpkin Pie Sugar and the link to the recipe she used for making the pumpkin pie spice as well. As she posted on her blog this has a lot of good uses... including on some buttered toast.

 Here is my oatmeal sprinkled with the pumpkin pie spice sugar.

 Here is the oatmeal all stirred and looking pumpkinny.

Add pumpkin pie spice sugar to taste. I wanted a little more so I sprinkled some more on top.

 You can also add more sugar if you want it sweeter but without more spice.  

I like my oatmeal with milk, you can have it with or without of course. 

This was my breakfast. All warm and yummy for a frosty morning.

I hope you enjoy it and make some for yourself.

You are welcome to pin my recipe

and if you try it please come back and leave me a comment.

It is sooooo yummy.

Enjoy!

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Think Back Thursday ~ Entry/Doorway/Enter

This weeks theme is

Entry/Doorway/Enter

I found some great photos for this theme.

I hope some of my participants found some as well.

Me 1970

age 9

at a hotel on vacation with my parents

 The first time hubby and I came through a door as husband and wife

 July 14, 1984

Christopher

Climbing the doorway

 03-22-05

 I used to do this in the hallway of our home where we grew up.

Christopher is the only one of my children who inherited this family trait.

He also has the same color eyes as me, and is the youngest of 4 children, like I was.

 He could even span the wider space of the entryway from our living room to dining room.

Such a monkey!

 I love it!!!

 I just love these old doors from Winterthur.

These photos are from 2007.

My sweet dd Jessica

 Future Themes:

11/22 Thanksgiving
previous years or preparations for this year
Yes, this will be posting on Thanksgiving Day.
You can get your post ready ahead of time and then schedule it to post on Thursday morning.
You can come put your link in anytime on Thursday, that will only take you a second, or you can post your link later. I will leave the linky open.

You can even post your photos later than Thursday if you need to.
The linky stays open all week.
Please leave me a comment so I know you posted, especially if you post late.


11/29 You/Yourself/Self-Portrait
a photo of you, taken by you or by someone else
a recent photo or one from days gone by

Here are the Rules for participating:
The purpose of Think Back Thursday is to link up a photo post about something from the past. You can reach back all the way to your childhood and bravely post pictures of you in your wild clothes and hair styles or post something from last year and tell us about it. I'm not picky. Hey, even yesterday was the past... LOL Most of my posts will be from longer ago than yesterday.

• It can be about you, about your kids, about your parents, whomever. You can include video, I will not exclude video alone posts, but I prefer them along with photos, as this is a photo meme. 
• I am doing a weekly theme now. That should help narrow it down from the myriad of photos we all have. If you don't have a picture for the theme of the week you can post your own photo in whatever theme you want. It's ok with me, really. I did the theme to narrow down the choices and make it easier to pick photos and so I could add my meme to the Daily Meme list and I had to have a theme to put my link in there... but I like the themes. If you can't find a picture for a theme post something else. Really. For ideas check out the other posts in my label Think Back Thursday. 
• Link up below. Please use a permalink that sends readers directly to the correct post. If you are not sure what that is click the word permalink for an explanation. 
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• Leave me a comment. First so that you can let me know what you think of my pictures and secondly so that I will know a new post has been linked up and I can come visit your blog and comment on your photos. 

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