Oatmeal!

[Roxie]

At Roxie's request, I gladly re-post the recipe for Baked Oatmeal from the crash archive. We have it every morning, as it refrigerates well and is good either warmed, hot, or cold (how I eat it   ) and any time of the day a snack is "needed"  

2 cups old fashioned oats
4 cups milk
½ tsp almond flavoring
¼ cup brown sugar (or 1/4 cup maple syrup)
½ cup sliced almonds
½ cup dried cherries (or cranberries)
1 large apple (greening, Granny Smith) unpeeled and grated

  1. Preheat oven to 375°
  2. Coat 3 qt casserole or baking dish with cooking spray
  3. Combine all ingredients in mixing bowl
  4. Transfer to baking dish. Sprinkle top with additional sliced almonds
  5. bake uncovered for 45 minutes, serve hot (refrigerate leftovers for microwave later)

Variation:
Omit almonds, almond flavoring and cherries.  Add 1 tsp cinnamon, ½ cup raisins
and ½ cup chopped peanuts

Made this substituting crushed pineapple for the apple, and coconut for the nuts.  I also substitute Craisins for the dried cherries and have developed an addiction to them, so thanks a lot, beenthere.   

[IMERC]

the Oatmeal cake was some kind of yummy...
thanks...

instead of spray I used unsalted butter w/ a skosh of olive oil mixed in...
warming in the MW was done w/ the defrost cycle... (30 secs, YMMV)...
preserves (your choice) or cream cheese for buttering...

[lxskllr]

I have simple tastes with oatmeal. Steel cut oats with water reduced by 50%, butter, and salt(hand gathered by Celts in France  :^P ). They don't break down, and have nice mouth feel with the reduced water. That's winter food. Too hot this time of year.

[Roxie]

The baked oatmeal is just as good cold as warm.  I dropped my cholesterol 104 points, by changing only my breakfast to oatmeal.  It's just so easy to bake this and enjoy it all week. 

Today my variation was:

2 cups oats
4 cups milk
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup coconut
1/2 cup Craisins
1 cup diced peaches

I think this is my favorite variation. 

[Raider Bill]

Roxie,
You just mix that up and bake it?

[IMERC]

You eat breakfast this time of night ???

Breakfast is a 24/7 mission...
isn't it??

[Roxie]

Roxie,
You just mix that up and bake it?

In greased casserole dish, at 375 degrees for 45 minutes. 

[Raider Bill]

Might have to give that a try. My bacon and egg or french toast casserole is getting old.

[Roxie]

To give you an idea of what to expect, here is a picture of the finished product.  This recipe fills a two quart casserole (which I grease with butter), and then cut into 8 sections (I lift the sections with a pie server).



 

Here is a serving with whipped cream.



 

Again, @beenthere  thank you to the moon and back!

[WV Sawmiller]

   Y'awl done flung a craving on me and I had to fix me a big batch of oatmeal just from reading this thread. Have not had any in years I guess. Thursday we stopped at an Amish cheese place and they had big bags of rolled oats in there so I bought a bag. Got up this morning and put a saucepan with about a quart of lightly salted water and got it boiling and added the oats, cooked them 5-6 minutes till soft and poured into a big bowl with a couple of tablespoons of good dark local honey, 10-12 maraschino cherries and a handful of mixed salted nuts then added about half a cup of cold milk.

   Life is good!

[Kllisk]

Cold made oatmeal:
In a quart mason jar fill 2/3 with oats of your choosing add heaping 1/4 cup of ground flax seeds, 3tbl spoons chia seeds, 1/4 cup sugar put lid on and shake until mixed add 8oz coconut water and top off jar with a little milk and a dash of vanilla extract put lid back on and shake. Place in fridge over night and pour over the fruit of your choice and dig in.