The Oats Have itI have learned a trick for treating with oats for breakfast in the warmer months. The trick is this: the night before, fill a jelly jar (for which you have the lid) 3/4 full with old-fashioned rolled oats. Cover the oats with apple juice, and stir in 1/4 tsp. Vitamin C powder. Put lid on jar, and let stand on the counter over night, and eat it in the morning. If you like, other juices can be used: grape juice, or apricot nectar, or other such things. Citrus juices do not work so well for this, somehow. If you like, this can be eaten with yogurt as well. I somewhat like it.
It's colder now, though, and warmer fare is called for in the mornings. I used to make quick oats, but I have been given a method for making the old fashioned stuff. For each (generous) portion, put 1/2 cup rolled oats and 1/2 cup water in a sauce pan; lid it, and leave it on the stove overnight just before bed. In the morning, ad 1/2 cup milk and bring to heat, stirring, until the oats are tender. This should happen quickly; somewhat quicker than fifteen or twenty minutes, certainly, and there will be much less temptation to walk away from the stuff and have it boil out onto the cooktop like I did the other morning (amazing stuff, oatmeal; somewhat not unlike concrete, under certain conditions). When done, one can add bananas or wheat germ or brown sugar or raisins or flax meal or maple syrup or whatever, and the good breakfast will do a lot to get one to work, even if on the way one might get drenched by the unhappy addition of puddle and truck.
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