Breakfast/Dessert

I'm pretty sure breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. That might be because I eat it when I get to my office, nearly 3 hours after I wake up, so I'm absolutely ravenous (what's new?). Or it could be that I'm just unnaturally obsessed with oatmeal in all its forms, and my various concoctions are always imitations of my favorite desserts including peach melba pie (no words for how good this is, I'm actually eating it as I write this), chocolate raisin spice cake, and of course, carrot cake. I might write a cookbook called "Let's add stuff to oatmeal until it's no longer good for you." Here's what I used for my carrot cake oats:

1/2 cup oat bran and 1 and 3/4 cup water

dash of salt
1 tbsp. chia seeds 

1 heaping tbsp. dark brown sugar

one small carrot, finely grated

vanilla, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice to taste

ginger pecan granola (sprinkled on top)

dried cranberries 

golden raisins

This is what the end result looked like (sort of; this is a picture of an earlier version that wasn't quite perfect):

Healthy? I think so. Let's not think about the calories. Delicious? YES. Make this, become a believer.