I've been trying to eat more oatmeal every week and found this Swiss Oatmeal with dates and honey

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angak

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recipe in my "New Recipes from Quilt Country Cookbook"(I just take this book out and read it from time to time---love the pictures and stories). It's more of a method(Muesli) than a recipe, but it makes a really great "instant" type oatmeal that I can zap at work, but have the delicousness of old fashioned oats. I take a scoop out, add a bit of water to it, and microwave for about 2 minutes, then stir and keep covered. the oats have softened enough from the milk and juice overnight that they don't take much cooking. It does taste good just cold too, but I prefer it heated and creamy. I added sliced almonds, raisins, and for the honey I used sugar free maple syrup to lower the sugar.http://www.amazon.com/New-Recipes-Quilt-Country-Mennonites/dp/0517705621/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1300736113&sr=1-3#reader_0517705621

 
the link just takes youto the book on Amazon. A search for "Swiss" will bring up the recipe, but

it appears that once you click on the recipe and bring up the page, you can't go there again. So, the best I can remember:
3 1/3 cups old fashioned oatmeal, give or take
2 cups milk
3/4 cup orange juice
1/3 cup honey or molasses(I would use less)
a pinch of salt(my addition)
1 1/2 cups raisins, dates, or other dried fruit(I used less)
mix everything in a large plastic dish with lid and refrigerate. eat cold, or warm with a bit more milk or water. I added some sliced almonds and used SF maple syrup for the sweetener.

 
I do that with the steel cut oats - make a big batch and have it to take to work.

I like mine with milk, cinnamon, brown sugar and chopped toasted almonds.

 
Golden Oats- a recipe for a side dish of oats which i found in an old (1979) recipe booklet from ...

http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf35609864.tip.html

Quaker Oats. Here is a website with the identical recipe. It comes out like a pilaf and can be made either sweet or savory. And you can eat a lot of it without adding much fat or sugar. I tried to find it on the Quaker Oats site but even they have forgotten it. Try it, you'll like it.

http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf35609864.tip.html

 
Found it: it was Tamiko who turned me onto using almond milk with the oats

Tamiko: Josh here's what I do, except I use steel-cut oats, not rolled....R

ec: Almond Butter Oatmeal
Posted: Mar 27, 2003 9:27 AM

I got the idea for toasting the oats from Cook's Illustrated, but the rest evolved on it's own. Hope you give it a try!

Almond Butter Oatmeal
1 C steel-cut oats
2 tsp or so butter
2 cups almond milk or rice milk (rice milk makes a sweeter oatmeal, but if you're watching carbs, use the almond milk or half of each)
2-3 Tbl almond-butter
Dash of salt

Toast oats in 2 tsp butter for 5-7 minutes on med heat. Bring milk to boil while oats are toasting and add oats when they are nutty brown. Reduce heat to low and simmer for approx 25 minutes with a lid on. When oats are finished, stir in almond butter which will further thicken the oatmeal. Top with ground flax, our whatever you so esire!

Makes 2 servings (for me, anyways) Reheat the oatmeal in the microwave by adding a bit of water or milk.

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thanks Marilyn. I will try almond milk next. I'm having another bowl this morning at work. added

a small snack cup of SF pears. so yummy, but this is more milk than I can usually tolerate, so will try the almond milk next.

 
If you've got a VitaMix, or have a friend that does, it wil make really great almond milk

just with almonds and water. If you get a good buy on a bag from Costco, it turns out to be pretty cheap.

 
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