Ingredients:
1 C cooked oatmeal
1 T sunflower seed butter
2 T blackberry peach verjus
Directions:
Mix all ingredients together and enjoy!
mOMent: Concede means to accept as true or valid. What do you accept as true or valid in your life, in this moment? What do you know to be True?
This will satisfy your craving for sweet and cream cheesy. It’s not exactly cheesecake, but it will do for breakfast.
Ingredients:
1 C cooked oatmeal
2 T blackberry peach verjus reduction (recipe here), plus a spoonful of fruit
1 T agave (or to taste)
1 T vegan cream cheese (or regular)
Directions:
Mix cream cheese, agave (if you like it sweet) and reduction with oatmeal well. The oatmeal should melt the cream cheese and soon you’ll have a nice blend. If you’re so inclined, garnish with a little of the blackberry peach fruit from the reduction.
mOMent: Do you call it like you see it? Or, do you sit back and gather information and then express your opinion? Which method works for you and why?
Pop quiz, what’s in the spoon above? Well, if you read the title I’m sure you guessed its coconut milk! Which is thick enough to hold steady in a spoon. Yum!
Ingredients:
1 C cooked oatmeal
1 T (heaping) coconut milk
2 spoonfuls of reduction
dash of salt
Reduction:
1 C fresh picked blackberries
1/2 C sliced peaches
1 C sugar
1 C Navarro Verjus (or any tart juice)
Directions: Simmer sugar, fruit and verjus for about 20 minutes (or longer, depending on how saucy you like your reduction).
Add a heaping tablespoon of coconut milk to oatmeal and a dash of salt. Mix well and garnish with reduction sauce!
mOMent: How do you know that you’ve been heard? What does someone have to do to let you know that your concerns have been taken to heart? Knowing this will help you to communicate better with those around you, facilitating smooth and conscious interaction.
We were pleasantly surprised when visiting our friends the other evening and they offered some fresh blackberries from their backyard. I took them up on the offer and was quite happy when I realized that I had worn my boots, it made stomping through prickly vines that much easier. Nevermind that half of the container was gone before we returned home…These blackberries pair nicely with the peaches and verjus in the reduction. Yum!
Ingredients:
1 C oatmeal
2 T (or more) reduction sauce
2 spoonfuls of fruit from reduction
Reduction:
1 C fresh picked blackberries
1/2 C sliced peaches
1 C sugar
1 C Navarro Verjus (or any tart juice)
Directions: Simmer sugar, fruit and verjus for about 20 minutes (or longer, depending on how saucy you like your reduction).
Add sauce to oatmeal and mix well. Garnish with fruit and enjoy!
mOMent: Writing letters the old fashioned way (with a pen and paper) can be therapeutic. Today, consider writing to someone you love and remind them of why they are so wonderful. Seal it with a kiss and send it off…
Coconut milk must be from the heavens above. Rich, creamy and well, coconutty 
Please enjoy this… we did!
Ingredients:
1 C oatmeal
2 T (or more) blueberry verjus reduction
2 T coconut milk
a dash of salt
Reduction:
1 C blueberries
1 C sugar
1 C Navarro Verjus
Directions: Simmer sugar blueberries and verjus for about 20 minutes (or longer, depending on how saucy you like your reduction).
Add reduction and coconut to oatmeal and mix well. Sprinkle with a little salt and voila!
mOMent: Being perfect is an oxymoron. We are already perfect, it’s just a matter of remembering… Who is a model of perfection in your life? Who do you look up to? What qualities do they have that you also have?
What could be better? More verjus reduction with salty crunchy cashews…
Ingredients:
1 C oatmeal
2 T (or more) blueberry verjus reduction
butter or earth balance to taste
2 T salted cashews
Reduction:
1 C blueberries
1 C sugar
1 C Navarro Verjus
Directions: Simmer sugar blueberries and verjus for about 20 minutes (or longer, depending on how saucy you like your syrup). Add sauce and butter to oatmeal and mix well. Garnish with salted cashews and enjoy!
mOMent: “On the tip of my tongue” is a common saying for when one would like to express something but is unable to come up with the words for it on demand. Does this happen to you? And if it does, what is your solution? I find that relaxing and releasing the need to say anything helps tremendously. Sometimes it is just my body telling me to slow things down…and perhaps whatever I “need” to say doesn’t actually need to be said.
Navarro, Navarro…what else can I say
Ingredients:
1 C oatmeal
2 T (or more) blueberry verjus reduction
Reduction:
1 C blueberries
1 C sugar
1 C Navarro Verjus
Directions: Simmer sugar blueberries and verjus for about 20 minutes (or longer, depending on how saucy you like your syrup).
mOMent: Today, take a moment to feel the breeze when you are outside today. Feel it touch your skin, the pressure it has, the way it moves the tiny hairs on your arms. What is the temperature, is it refreshing? Is it relaxing? Is it something you enjoy?
Among the many goodies we purchased at Navarro Vineyards back in February was this little delightful bottle of verjus. What is verjus you ask? It is the juice from green, unripened grapes.
Ingredients:
Verjus Simple Syrup
1 C sugar
1 C verjus
Directions: simmer sugar and verjus for 5-10 minutes until it becomes liquid and reduces to a more syrup-y consistency.
1 C cooked old-fashioned oats
2 T verjus (or more to taste)
butter to taste
Directions: Mix verjus syrup and oatmeal together, add butter if you like and eat up!
Om,
Renata
mOMent: When you are some place beautiful, do you like to be with people or alone? Do you enjoy solitude in places of wonder, or do you prefer to surround yourself with others? Why?
