Thread: Irish Oats (Steel Cut Oat) meal

1 c. steel-cut or Irish oats
4 c. water/milk/combination (depending on how creamy you want)
1/4 t sea salt

I use 3 c. milk and 1 c. water, but you can do all water, all milk, or half & half of each. Just make it add up to 4 cups.

Combine liquid, oats, and salt in crock pot. Stir well.

Cook overnight on low or around 8 hours.

In the morning, stir it well, adding a little milk if it is too thick.

We don't like PLAIN oats, so I stir in about half a cup of brown sugar in the morning before eating.

Since it makes a HUGE amount; you can use hot, cleaned pint canning jars and portion out your daily allotments, top with a canning lid and it will suck/seal shut. Store it in the fridge. Drop it in your bag and -- with the canning lid removed, the little pint jars quickly microwave at work!

They only store about a week, even refrigerated... half the recipe if you won't be able to eat it all in a week.

For a special treat - take some dried cherries, and soak them in a little almond extract overnight. In the morning, after you've doled some out into your bowl - put a few of the soaked cherries on top! Orgasmic!

We top with assorted dried fruits. Dried bananas are good. Crans are tasty. I don't care for the mango/pineapple chips, but others like it. My favorites are cherries, and soaked cherries. LOL!

I've heard that folks like it with yogurt, but I've not tried it.