Culinary Adventures with Camilla

#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all our of lovely bread by following our  Pinterest board  right here. Links are also updated after each event on the  BreadBakers home page .  We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. This month Rocío of  Kids and Chic  has selected oatmeal breads as our theme. She wrote: "Oats of any kind: rolled, flour, steel cut, quick cooking, etc. Your bread can be sweet or savory but it's got to have oats!" If you are a food blogger and would like to join us, just send an email with your blog URL to Stacy at foodlustpeoplelove@gmail.com. Oatmeal Bread Basket #BreadBakers Oatmeal Bread themed #BreadBakers: Agave Oatmeal Sour Dough Bread from My Catholic Kitchen Applesauce Oatmeal Bread from Hostess at Heart Banana Oatmeal Loaf from Basic N Delicious Blueberry Currant Oatmea...

With it being #BrunchWeek and Cinco de Mayo , I decided to share my variation on horchata, a traditional Mexican beverage made with homemade rice milk, cinnamon, vanilla, and honey. I’ve taken liberties with it here by adding in oats, nuts, and a few more spices Ingredients makes about 4 cups 4 C water, divided in half 1 C oats (I used  Bob's Red Mill   rolled oats) 1/4 C sliced almonds 1/4 C rice (I used organic brown basmati rice) 2 whole cinnamon sticks 1 T local honey 1 t vanilla (I used vanilla bean paste from  Nielsen-Massey ) 1/2 t ground nutmeg Procedure Pour 2 cups water into a glass jar along with the oats, almonds, rice and cinnamon. Let soak overnight - or between 8 to 24 hours. Once you're done soaking, remove the cinnamon sticks and place the mixture into a blender. Blend until most of the particles have broken down, approximately 2 to 3 minutes. Strain through a small mesh strainer into a bowl, then strain the mixture...