I’m waiting for an Amtrak passenger train #84 to stop in Ashland. After that I plan to go back to bed.
I had oatmeal for breakfast, again. I found a recipe for steel cut oats, prepared overnight in a slow cooker. It makes enough oatmeal to feed the hungriest and largest Irish family in Southie, but for one old man on a weight loss regimen, it represents breakfast for a week. Or more. It’s redeeming feature is that it’s delicious.
It is muy importante’ to either use a lot of cooking spray, butter or oil to coat the inside of your slow cooker. Or use a slow cooker liner. This stuff sticks like you wouldn’t believe! That complete, you’re ready to move on.
Take 1.5 cups of steel cut oats( no quick cooking steel cut oats), no regular oatmeal. I use McCann’s in the nifty steel can. Add it to 4 cups water, 2 cups milk,. Add 3 tablespoons milled (ground) flaxseed meal, for healthy fatty acids, vanilla, cinnamon 2 teaspoons salt, and two mashed bananas. Stir it up real good, set the slow cooker on the low setting and leave it to cook overnight. (8hrs)
The idea is to create an oatmeal with the flavours of banana bread. It pretty much does.
It’s a fairly simple recipe. You can find more instructive recipes online for slow cooker oatmeal. Use them! I intended that summary as just an overview. This is a perfect breakfast for, say, Christmas morning or any other morning where a large herd of humans may be corralled in your domicile.
It is very tasty and reheats easily. I use my oven, putting the desired amount in a Corningware dish warming it for 15-20 minutes at 300F. Or use a microwave oven, if you have one (I don’t).
Other than eating, sleeping, housework, swimming, and enduring unrequited sexual longing, life is pretty uneventful.
Oh, and I pray the Rosary daily with the priests at Lourdes Grotto. Seems to help.
Dispatches From Dystopia 
nice meal. praying always help. i understand this “unrequited sexual longing” add love to the mix and I went seven years with ex that way. Before she was 1 year free of cancer and left me. I have assumed that was God’s answer. My life is better now. But i miss being with someone greatly. I pray and know as you know God does answer prayer. Continued success on your weight loss and swimming regimen.
Thanks.
Your oatmeal recipe sounds wonderful!!! I love it. Daddy won’t touch it unless it’s in cookie form. I make slow cook (stove top) oatmeal as a treat now and then.
It is good. Relatively easy. I ate it cold, last night. It’s not bad, reminded me of Bread pudding. Wondering if you could cook this in an old fashioned pudding mold.
I’m sure you could!!! I like it cold, too. I eat lots of “weird” cold foods that gross most people out. lol
They’re lots of us out there I think.
Daddy can’t watch me eat Chef Boyardee raviolis right out the can or canned soup. lol I can’t stand heated up canned raviolis. They’re gross, but somehow yummy cold.
I’ll take your word for it, but then again, why not give it a go? One can always heat them up. The Chef Boyardee ravioli was a staple in our childhood dinner rotation when Mom didn’t feel like cooking. Remember it fondly. Brings back memories and today is my parents’ wedding anniversary, 77 years ago, 1944. They married not long before Dad went overseas.