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popcorn
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National Oatmeal Month
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Jan 15 13:41 UTC 1994 |
I read that January, 1994, is National Oatmeal Month.
What do you like to do with oatmeal?
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jdg
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response 1 of 38:
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Jan 15 14:50 UTC 1994 |
bake it into breads.
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danr
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response 2 of 38:
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Jan 15 14:55 UTC 1994 |
I second that motion. I also like oatmeal chocolate cookies.
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gracel
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response 3 of 38:
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Jan 16 20:14 UTC 1994 |
Personally, I like to turn my back and go the other direction from
oatmeal as such, but I used to use oats in a meat loaf -- until oats
proved to be one of the things whose consumption on my part made the
infant wake up screaming. (Now I use wheat-or-triticale flakes)
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remmers
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response 4 of 38:
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Jan 16 23:10 UTC 1994 |
I like hot oatmeal for breakfast in the morning. I avoid the instant
variety though. Either Quaker's Old-Fashioned or stronger stuff such
as Elam's Steel-Cut. I occasionally mix in a bit of wheat germ too,
but I like it best just with milk -- no sugar or other additives.
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popcorn
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response 5 of 38:
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Jan 16 23:39 UTC 1994 |
My daily oatmeal recipe, which has been posted in this conference more
times than anybody should have to look at it, is this:
1/3 cup rolled oats (organic ones from the co-op)
1 cup water
handfull of raisins (organic ones from the co-op)
nuke for 2 minutes on high and 5 minutes on low. Let sit while you
shower. Reheat for 10 seconds on high. Add some soymilk, stir, and eat.
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kentn
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response 6 of 38:
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Jan 17 01:09 UTC 1994 |
Does "nuke 5 minutes on low" translate to "5 minutes on defrost"?
I hate recipes like that...our microwave only has two speeds.
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jrg
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response 7 of 38:
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Jan 17 16:04 UTC 1994 |
For those with less time to spend on cooking oatmeal for breakfast--
1/2 cup quick oats (from co-op)
1/2+ cup boiling water
sliced fruit (kiwis, strawberrys, peaches, etc)
honey to taste
a dusting of allspice
pour boiling water over oats in bowl. Stir in water until
all oats are soaked. Cover oats with sliced fruit. Dribble
honey over fruit (tupelo or orange blossom is really key).
Dust final product with complementary spice--allspice for most
berry fruits, peaches and nectarines; ground cloves for kiwis;
cinnamon and clove for stewed apples--you get the idea).
Voila'! Breakfast before you know it!
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popcorn
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response 8 of 38:
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Jan 18 23:42 UTC 1994 |
re 6: my nuker has a whole bunch of levels: High, Defrost, Med, Med-Low,
Low, and I think it has a Warm and maybe a Med-High. When I say to nuke on
"Low", as far as my nuker is concerned, i mean it. Adapt as needed for your
own nuker.
By the way - the reason for changing the heat to "low" is because if you
leave the oatmeal nuking on "high" it boils over -- all over the microwave,
while if you switch to "low" the microwave cycles on and off, causing the
oatmeal level to rise and fall within the bowl without leaping over the
sides of it.
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kentn
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response 9 of 38:
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Jan 19 02:30 UTC 1994 |
So, then is the strategy for single-speed nukers to heat (on high/default)
for X minutes (up to the boilover point ?), then let the oatmeat sit for
a while before returning to another round of high/default nuking?
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gracel
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response 10 of 38:
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Jan 19 03:44 UTC 1994 |
Cooking several bowls of oatmeal (for the whole family) at once may suffice.
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md
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response 11 of 38:
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Jan 21 14:46 UTC 1994 |
We feed oatmeal to the crickets in the terrarium in my
daughter's room. (The frog in the terrarium eats the
crickets.)
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vidar
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response 12 of 38:
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Jan 26 21:29 UTC 1994 |
Oatmeal Sucks.
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omni
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response 13 of 38:
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Jan 27 05:04 UTC 1994 |
Not really. If baked in cookies, or muffins, it is tolerable. I prefer mine
in a bowl, hot with a little milk and sugar on it.
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popcorn
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response 14 of 38:
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Jan 27 14:40 UTC 1994 |
oatmeal whole wheat bread (from the recipe in the first Donna German
breadmaker book) is pretty amazing
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jiffer
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response 15 of 38:
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Jun 15 20:59 UTC 1997 |
yum! oatmeal! the real winter breakfast.
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e4808mc
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response 16 of 38:
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Jun 16 00:57 UTC 1997 |
To combine electronic gadgets (earlier topic) and oatmeal (this topic) for
the people who take their showers the night before so they dont have to get
up so early in the morning: Put 1/2 C oatmeal and 1/2 C water, a few dried
fruits into a 1+ C container. Put container in very small crockpot (the 1 qt
size). Plug crock pot into electric outlet. Go to bed. Get up. Eat oatmeal.
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valerie
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response 17 of 38:
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Jun 16 12:53 UTC 1997 |
(We would not want to see Valerie's hair the day after a night-before shower.)
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valerie
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response 18 of 38:
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Jun 16 12:53 UTC 1997 |
(Although the oatmeal crock pot idea sounds kind of yummy.)
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headdoc
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response 19 of 38:
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Jun 16 23:55 UTC 1997 |
I shower every night and then go to sleep. My hair the next morning requires
serious gluing.
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coyote
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response 20 of 38:
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Jun 17 02:18 UTC 1997 |
I used to shower every night, but my hair the next morning was always
unreasonable (which is saying something, 'cause I've got short hair! Well,
my hair-dressers (is that the right term) are always saying I've got thick
hair...) Recently I discovered that I only have to get up 20 minutes earlier
to shower in the morning. Plus, it gives me more time at night to get stuff
done.
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keesan
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response 21 of 38:
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Dec 9 01:01 UTC 1997 |
hi Valerie, we either have a lot in common or you are everywhere! If you are
going to be eating oatmeal and raisins for breakfast every day, just like we
do, you should not be paying co-op prices. We order them, organic, through
a buying club, in 50 pound bags and 25 pound boxes. Would you like to split
an order with us, or stop by for breakfast some late morning? A former
housemate showed us how to cook oats on the stove top. Boil the water, turn
off the pot, add oats, cover pot. Wait 10-15 minutes. My stove takes a long
time to cool off (think burner elements, Frigidaire) so I have to turn it off
just as it starts to bubble, otherwise it will boil over when the oats are
added. For variety, we sometimes crack wheat with our hand grinder, then
pressure cook it at 5 pounds, turn off the cooker once it reaches pressure,
let it come down to pressure at once. Millet the same, rice 15 pounds. Use
less water than for regular boiling: millet 2.5:1, rice 1.3:1. Experiment.
Cracked wheat takes a lot more water. Couscous do not pressure cook, they
burn (they are made of flour).
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valerie
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response 22 of 38:
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Dec 9 01:38 UTC 1997 |
Wow, this is another item I haven't looked at in years. I last worked
at a full-time 40-hours-a-week gotta-be-there-from-8-to-5 job in 1993.
When I stopped having to get up so early, I also stopped eating breakfast.
So my daily oatmeal habit has vanished. I kind of miss the oatmeal, but
I don't at all miss getting up at some unholy hour of the morning to hustle
off to work.
(Are we free-lance computer people annoyingly smug about working weird hours,
or what?) :)
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davel
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response 23 of 38:
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Dec 9 10:55 UTC 1997 |
Yep.
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keesan
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response 24 of 38:
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Dec 10 20:02 UTC 1997 |
oatmeal is not just for breakfast, makes a quick supper, and is high in
protein.
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