Oatmeal

[malkin]

Exploding Pyrex is big time kitchen drama.
Oatmeal flambe, caused by oatmeal pot boiling over on gas stove and then igniting also has a certain drama. Not a recommended cooking method.

Maybe that is why I usually just stir rolled oats into my yogurt.

[GLC1968]

I just read about how to cook steel oats in the crock pot using a double boiler method. You put your ingredients into a ceramic bowl that will fit into your crockpot. Put water in the crock, place bowl and ingredients into water, turn on, go to bed - awake to 'perfectly cooked and not sticking to the sides' oatmeal.

I'm going to try it tonight. I'll report back.

[tulip]

My problem is that I like a little oatmeal in my bowl of brown sugar. Not the other way around. So I mostly stick with Cheerios and try not to worry about all the benefits I'm missing.

Rolled oats in yogurt sounds appealing, though.

[malkin]

Rolled oats in yogurt sounds appealing, though.

My current favorite way to do this is yogurt, oats and frozen blueberries and to pack it up for my lunch. The frozen blueberries keep whatever else is in my lunch cold AND they keep me from eating it until they thaw.

By the time the berries thaw, the oats are nice and plumped up.

[warneral]

I love oatmeal! The berries & yogurt & oats sounds good. WIll have to try that. I have 3 large containers of Chobani in my fridge.

I love steel cut oats. I have tried them in my crockpot but my crockpot overcooks them. Now I have a rice cooker which has a brown rice setting. That works perfectly.

I've shared this before but if you want to see creative ways to eat oats, follow this girls' blog. Start on this page too!

http://www.katheats.com/kaths-tribute-to-oatmeal/

My favorite way to eat oatmeal? Oats in a jar. I love barney butter on my oatmeal and when the jar gets nearly empty (which doesn't happen but a few times a year), I make my hot oats with banana and pour in the jar. There is an extra dose of barney butter at the bottom. YUM!

[OakLeaf]

Don't they foam in the rice cooker? I tried barley in the rice cooker once (major cleanup headache) - and it seems to me that oats on the stovetop foam even more than barley?

[warneral]

Oakleaf - when I made them with 1cup milk, 1 cup steel cut oats, 3 cups water - they boiled over horribly! So then I dumped it and tried 3/4 cup oats and then 3 cups water and no milk. Didn't boil over. They looked watery until I stirred them.

My dh being first generation american eats a lot of rice so it was a good purchase either way

[GLC1968]

I love oatmeal! The berries & yogurt & oats sounds good. WIll have to try that. I have 3 large containers of Chobani in my fridge.

I love steel cut oats. I have tried them in my crockpot but my crockpot overcooks them. Now I have a rice cooker which has a brown rice setting. That works perfectly.

I've shared this before but if you want to see creative ways to eat oats, follow this girls' blog. Start on this page too!

http://www.katheats.com/kaths-tribute-to-oatmeal/

My favorite way to eat oatmeal? Oats in a jar. I love barney butter on my oatmeal and when the jar gets nearly empty (which doesn't happen but a few times a year), I make my hot oats with banana and pour in the jar. There is an extra dose of barney butter at the bottom. YUM!

Heh - I think I need your rice cooker! I tried steel cut oats in mine and they came out a gummy, gross mess. And clean up was a nightmare! Brown rice was even worse and I purposely bought this particular cooker precisely because reviews said it did brown rice well. Liars! Now it sits in the basement because I don't eat white rice.

Maybe this means that my brown rice experiment will work since the steel cut oats worked in my particular crock pot? Fingers crossed...