I want to share a wonderful (and hard
to believe) recipe with you to warm you up this beautiful day! I found it in this month’s Good Housekeeping
magazine. It’s for oatmeal that you cook
in the CROCK POT, --ALL NIGHT!! That’s right!
Last night, at bedtime I began to assemble the ingredients in my crock
pot and my husband asked me why I was cooking so late at night. I told him that in the morning he would have
reason to “rise up and call me –blessed” because I was making his breakfast and
that it would cook all night. Now this
was hard for him to believe because I usually only cook breakfast for everyone
on Saturdays. Usually I just manage to
sit up enough in bed to sip the coffee my husband brings me as he leaves for
work. Anyway, after assuring him (at
least I was hoping) that I wouldn’t burn the house down and that the oatmeal
wouldn’t (I didn’t think) turn to concrete, I boldly pushed the start
button! Well I want you to know that we
had some magnificent oatmeal (or porridge as my Canadian friends call it) this
morning. CONFESSION: I woke up at 5:00am
and gave it a stir because I couldn’t wait to check it out! And to
you future houseguests---I will definitely be serving this when you come to
visit!!
Ingredients:
4 cups water
2 cups milk
1 and ½ steel cut oats*
*It is very important to use only steel cut oats due to
the long cooking time * ** I used 1 cup organic steel cut oats and ½ cup
steel cut porridge oats (these had a bit of oat bran, wheat bran and flaxseed
mixed in).
¼ t. salt
Instructions:
*Spray crock
pot with PAM
*Place all
ingredients in crock pot and stir to combine.
*Program
slow cooker to cook for 4 hours on Low
and then 4 hours on Warm.
*Turn on at bedtime.
*Enjoy in
the morning.
*Add your
favorite toppings to make your porridge “just right”!
Such
as: brown sugar, milk, butter, craisins,
raisins, almond slices, cinnamon, etc.
