Instead, I kind of just aim my camera in the food's general direction and push the button. That is what I did for this picture which is a picture of crockpot oatmeal which is my favorite breakfast ever and in all ways amazing.
Now to do something I rarely do on this blog! I'm gonna post the recipe!!!!!!!
Crockpot Oatmeal
1 cup steel cut oats
dump in some craisins (roughly 1/3 cup or 1ish handful)
1 chopped apple
dump in some cinnamon (around 1.2 teaspoon measured in my palm)
dump in a little salt (about 1/2 teaspoon again measured in my palm)
pour in REAL maple syrup or honey ( maybe 1/4 cup of whatever you have the most of)
4 cups water
Stir it up in the handy dandy crockpot and cook on low for four hours! Then just store it in the fridge for whenever you want to eat some breakfast. I generally prefer mornings for such an activity.
Come the morning time when it is the sustenance just scoop some into a bowl. Now, you could just pop it into the microwave and that's just fine. OOOOOOOOOOOR you could chop up half a banana and add a splash of milk. Then microwave it. Putting banana into your oatmeal is nothing new but I had not tried it until recently and IT IS DELICIOUS!!!!!!!! The banana adds kind of a caramel flavor to the oatmeal which is quite nice.
It is 12:18 a.m. and I have a pot of this just a cookin' away as we speak. It will be done in about an hour. I meant to start it as soon as I got home from work around 5:30 but I forgot. I debated just waiting until tomorrow to start it but I would really like some oatmeal tomorrow morning and I figure if I waited until tomorrow I would just forget again so may as well do it now.
My apartment smells amazing. I am excited.
Hi, Molly! I'm not usually a fan of steel-cut oats. Do you think this would work with regular old-fashioned oat meal? I've tried crock pot recipes before, but the oatmeal always seems to burn a little on the bottom. I think the 4-hour cook time might make a big difference, since previously I just let it cook overnight.
ReplyDeleteHi, Jeffrey and Juli! I haven't tried this out with the old-fashioned oatmeal but I did some Googling. Here's one of the links I found:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.recipesecrets.net/forums/crock-pot-recipes/27867-crock-pot-oatmeal.html
There were a lot of other links so looks like others have tried it out with good results. My oatmeal doesn't burn but sticks to the side of the crockpot and gets a little tough. After reading this link I might try the cooking spray. Reducing the cooking time and trying cooking spray might help.