02.24.10
Mares eat oats…
…and so do I. In fact I would say that I have eaten more oats than most people. I really like oatmeal. It makes a nourishing breakfast that stays with you longer than Cheerios (I like Cheerios too). But when you wake up and it is below freezing outside, cold cereal isn’t what I want to eat. Even though I like a hot breakfast (mmm pancakes) I can’t eat a hot breakfast of fattening foods every day or I would gain weight (yes, I struggle just like everyone else).
Lately I have been eating steel cut oats instead of rolled oats. I take a quarter cup of oats and toast them in a skillet until they are golden brown and start smelling toasty. Then I add them to a cup of boiling water, simmer for 20 minutes with the lid on then take off the lid add a pinch of salt and simmer for another 10 minutes. Dale thinks this takes entirely too much time. However during the whole process I am doing my daily scripture reading, so really I am not standing over the stove salivating. Dale stirs up his breakfast the night before by adding muesli mix to yogurt. In the morning he adds some nuts and he has breakfast. Bleah, I am not a fan of yogurt, or uncooked grains and it defeats the purpose of a warm breakfast because it is cold.
I have served my hot cereal to Dale a few times and he admitted to me that it was very good. Which brings me to why I am writing this post. I ran out of steel cut oats. They had them in Costco and when I went back to get some more they no longer had them. Grrr. I know they sell them at the Food Coop, and other places in the bulk food section, but the day that I was shopping I didn’t have the time to go to another store. This was my very busy last week as I was preparing my RS class on soup and preparing the meal for that evening as well. I was in Costco and then had to go straight home. That meant I had to eat regular rolled oats for two mornings in a row. What a shock to discover that I hate regular rolled oats, they almost made me gag. The cereal that I had eaten my entire life, that had sustained me on cold mornings as long as I could remember and suddenly, blech.
I didn’t eat the oatmeal on the cruise and I thought it was just because they had all this other great food and as long as I didn’t eat pancakes it was okay. Except that I was eating eggs and bacon and sausage and pastries. Now I know why I avoided the oatmeal, regular rolled oats (old fashioned long cooking) are bad, very, very bad. Almost inedible. I can’t believe I ever enjoyed them. Now I will have to use my huge oatmeal supply in creative ways so that I never have to eat another serving of that slimy, gray, tasteless library paste.
Dale W. said,
February 24, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Actually, I like oatmeal too. I like the steel cut oats, and I love the muesli I make. It isn’t a muesli mix, as Janet makes it sound. It is a mixuture of 5 rolled grains, and I add flax seeds and sunflower seeds (roasted, not salted) and it is yummy. On the cruise they had muesli and I ate it every morning, along with eggs, sausage, french toast …
Les said,
February 25, 2010 at 9:24 am
I love old fashioned oats. Mmmmm, gray and slimy. Warms me up my pink and slimy insides. And bonus, you don’t even have to chew! Of course, I love muesli too, but I can never make it as good as dad does, so unless he gives me another tutoring session on it, I’m done with it.