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We suggested chicken soup and rice. He brought us pizza and fries (which sort of implies that is what he also cooked for himself). I suggested spaghetti but he can't eat tomato sauce and did not want it plain. I thought cheese would be hard to digest. I offered some dry baby cereal - not interested. Cream of wheat works for me.
Re: #38 I'd forgotten that. How cool you remembered though. Mostly, when people are feeling sick, if they stick to what they feel like eating, they do okay. Even if this means not having anything but water. The body pretty much knows. The trick is to listen and not be influenced by what others feel we should be eating.
The neighbor feels like eating pizza when he is sick.
Then he should have pizza.
He recovered anyway.
Ginger tea is great for nausea. Take a piece of ginger about the size of your thumb. Chop or grate it. Simmer it in about 3 cups of water for 20 minutes. Strain and drink hot.
Peppermint tea is too....I give that to the hubby a lot who has issues with IBS.
Ginger's supposed to be good for the whole digestive tract. If hubby gets tired of peppermint, you could try it. :)
That's the back up...he doesn't drink carbonation anymore, and he's not crazy about ginger tea - but if he's feeling awful, he'll do pretty much what I suggest.
One comfort food is oatmeal. This morning we're walking to steel cut oats made in a mini-crockpot. I've made this with regular Quaker oats before but never the steel cut variety. The idea comes via Alton Brown. I haven't tasted it yet but the house smells oh so good.
I'd like to know the difference between steel cut and regular. I know generally, but I mean taste. Well I think oatmeal is a great comfort food to have! I like oatmeal and oatbran cereal (the kind that's like cream of wheat).
Er, we're WAKING to oatmeal. Walking comes much later. ;-) Jeanne, I know not about the difference in oats, but John seems to have a handle on why steel cut are the better nurtritional value. John or anyone else know?
In our household, I guess I'm the resident expert on steel cut oats, as I freqently cook up a one-serving portion for myself for breakfast. The way I do it is to simmer it in water with a tablespoon of ground flax seed and a dash of salt, until the water is absorbed - about 20 minutes. I top it with nuts, fresh fruit, and milk. Yummy and healthy! The taste and texture are nuttier and chewier than conventional rolled oats. I like it better. The crockpot method that Mary used this morning (resp:49) is new to me. Quite tasty in its own rather different way, although the underlying taste and texture of the steel cut oats came through quite well.
There was a diner in Durham that I enjoyed going to and they served breakfast all day [plus after 10-11 am, they also served lunch stuff, after 4pm, dinner stuff]. One of my favorites was their oatmeal breakfast: oatmeal with bananas and/or raisins [I usually got both] with brown suger on the side and warm milk on the side, too; plus an english muffin or toast [I would get the muffin] and juice or coffee [I would get juice since I'm not a coffe person]. And the oatmeal was really good, definitely not the instant kind. I also liked their made to order omelletes. I miss this diner! [and it was only a mile from my house...]
I used a 1 qt crockpot to make hot breakfast a lot. I would put the oats in a pyrex custard cup, along with the necessary water, put the cup in the crockpot at bedtime, and wake to hot cereal already in its bowl. I experimented by putting Muesli and milk in the cup, and loved the outcome. Just about any granola works nicely that way as well. Pyres cups come in an 8 oz size as well as 4.
How long does oatmeal need to cook in a crockpot? It sounds like you used it as an oven rather than a pot. Might work well for custard that way too.
6-10 hours
I don't think I've ever had the steel cut oatmeal, though my Mom used to make us some Irish oatmeal that was good.
re resp:50: furs, steel cut oats are nuttier, chewier, and a heck of a lot less slimy than rolled oats. They make me think of chewy Grape-Nuts. I like steel-cut oats with honey and raisins, cooked in a little extra water so they make their own milk.
I have to confess that I like slimy oatmeal. So what is this crockpot method of making oatmeal. I mean, how long does it take in a crockpot? My latest method for making oatmeal is to just put rolled oats in a bowl with boiling water. I put a plate over the bowl and wait 3-4 minutes. They are good that way but not nearly slimy enough. I bet crockpot cooking could make the oatmeal all gooey the way I like it.
They are gooey when cooked the way I described somewhere up there. The dried cherries / cranberries get all plump and soft too. But you really need to use a small crockpot, Lynne, like a one quart, max, for the proportions I gave to serve two. I have made crockpot oatmeal using regular, Quaker rolled oats too. That recipe called for butter, brown sugar, nuts, and less milk. It was quite good but due to the sugar the end color was very dark brown. I prefer both the taste and the look of the steel cut oat recipe. And if it's good enough for Alton Brown... ;-)
I have a very small crock pot! I think it is a quart size. I sometimes use it for making hot dips. But really, I hardly ever use it. But I love oatmeal! So how long do you leave it in the crockpot? Would it be ok to set it up the night before or would eight hours in a crockpot be too long for oatmeal?
I use a 1 qt crock pot for hot morning oatmeal. I pour the water on the oats just as I go to bed, and eat the oatmeal shortly after getting up the next morning. 8 hours seems to work ok in the small one, even with rolled oats.
You can plug into a timer and plug the timer into the wall.
Cool. I might have to try that this weekend!
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