Oatmeal: How Do You Make Yours?

[freddie]

I always eat Scott's Old Fashioned Porridge Oats, and only the Scottish way with a good pinch of salt.

[BEEDEE]

When I lived in the UK we had the luxury of an Aga cooker. (http://www.aga-ranges.com/_store/scr...t.asp?idcat=39) One of the ovens is a low temperature oven, so we would mix rolled oats with milk at night and put in the oven over night. By morning the oats and milk had cooked together and had a naturally caramelized flavor.

Never been able to duplicate it since.

Brian

[piperdbh]

When I lived in the UK we had the luxury of an Aga cooker. (http://www.aga-ranges.com/_store/scr...t.asp?idcat=39) One of the ovens is a low temperature oven, so we would mix rolled oats with milk at night and put in the oven over night. By morning the oats and milk had cooked together and had a naturally caramelized flavor.

Never been able to duplicate it since.

Brian

Would a Crock-Pot work?

[Paul Henry]

Would a Crock-Pot work?

I don't think so, there is something extra special about the Aga, don't really know what it is.
My first cooking experience was with an AGA, I was 4 years old, and obviously the cooking bug got me.There were lots of things I learnt to cook on the AGA, and there are somethings that tasted a certain way, and nothing has come close since. Porridge was always done very slowly and it was wonderful, AGA Toast was another thing I learnt to love, hot and crispy and yet still soft in the middle. Slow baked potatoes in the cool oven over night, no danger of them burning, and baked bananas in their skins with a little brown sugar.
Wonderful memories.....

[piperdbh]

In honor of all of you, I'm currently making myself a pot of oatmeal, with a little cinnamon and maple syrup.

[NewEnglander]

I'm anxious to get to the market tomorrow to try to track down some steel-cut oats and make up a big pot for next week!
But I didn't know McCann's are IRISH oats!

;)

[Bugbear]

Last night, I put hot watermelon juice and yogurt in the oatmeal. I think I might try a little salt, yogurt, and milk tonight.

I have some blueberries and some cranberries to throw in there later on in the week, which reminds me, I need to go down to the Farmer's Market and get honey.

I'll admit I put the last piece of a pumpkin pie in a few nights ago.

However, I also eat plain baked pumpkins, particularly the miniature pumpkins, all the time, and sometimes put pumpkin in with the oatmeal. It helps to run it all through a processor for a while with some milk or something like that. And yes, I put the seeds in too; I'm crazy...

By the way, I picked the last squash in the garden yesterday. It is a spaghetti squash, and it's vine was growing out of a cinder block filled with soil.

That sums up my entire life.

[piperdbh]

By the way, I picked the last squash in the garden yesterday. It is a spaghetti squash, and it's vine was growing out of a cinder block filled with soil.

That sums up my entire life.

The squash, or the cinder block filled with soil?

[Bugbear]

The squash, or the cinder block filled with soil?

Precisely.

[Watson42]

Any Canadians out there still eat Red River Cereal? Now that is good stuff.

My family eats it as a treat. And the bakery I work in now makes a rye bread out of it. We call it Red Deer Rye, which I think is a tad bit corny, but it's been selling well.

The porridge, of which I have not partaken in years, is usually made with slow cook rolled oats, Quaker is the brand of choice. Sometimes on the stove top in the biggest pot my family has, sometimes in the crock pot overnight and on the odd occasion, in the oven as baked oatmeal. Serve with 2% milk and smothered in brown sugar or with plain yogurt and maple syrup.