Breakfast Snacking Cake & Mushrooms

What an unlikely combination, but I didn't eat the two together.
I got the idea for this breakfast cake from the gingerbread baked oatmeal posted by Fiber at 28 Cooks. I used what I had on hand and basically totally remade it keeping only the use of oatmeal and cracked 7-grain cereal mix the same. Mine is sugar/ molasses free and tropical in anticipation of warmer weather.

Here's my take on it: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine the dry in a medium mixing bowl:
1 1/2 C rolled oats, 1 1/2 C cracked grain cereal mix, 1 Tbsp baking power, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp or more cinnamon. Combine in blender 1 1/2 C soymilk & 1/4 C flax seed and 1 Tbsp Ener-G egg replacer until thickened. Add and blend again 1/2 C unsweet applesauce, 1 Tbsp olive oil, and 3/4 tsp KAL brand stevia extract powder (or to taste) or 3/4 to 1 C sweetener of choice. Add 1 cup crushed tropical fruit (or pineapple), stir until combined. Pour into an 8x8 pan. Bake 45 minutes. It is a moist bar, but does an okay job of staying together.

I won't call this dish a dessert for a sweety tooth family, but it sure made a nice breakfast / snack for me today. Perhaps I should use this blog entry as a food confession diary - I ate the whole pan of this today mostly by myself, except for three peices. However, this pan of goodies and various veggies is all I ate today for meals and quick grab snacks while I was mowing our yard and the fields. I need to do something "real" for meals tommorrow.

MUSHROOM HEAVEN...
Also, about those morrell mushrooms - this was sure yummy. I placed sliced morrell mushrooms into the slowcooker, (about 1 1/2 - 2 lb worth, 8 Cups worth), 2 large onions sliced thinly into 2" strips, 2 Tbsp minced garlic, 1/4 C soy sauce, and 1/4 C red wine, 4 tsp Bills Best b**fy flavor powder, and 1 C water. I cooked them several hours and then left the lid off and allowed it to continue cooking until some of the liquid cooked off. I served some on top of a boca burger with shredded vegan gruyere on whole grain bread.... ummm, WOW! I wish I had a picture but I just couldn't hold back.

I've also added the mushrooms sauteed in various tofu scrambles. DH likes them sauteed in butter with a bready crust. I will always make a pan like I did above and even purchase regular fresh storebrand mushrooms just to have more again, but for awhile we'll have little frozen baggies from this load of morrell. I think I'll go with DH next time, a walk in the woods sounds fun even if we don't find anything.