Steel Cut Oats

I really wish I would have tried the steel cut oats sooner.  They are very tasty and heart warming.  It is similar to regular oatmeal but the texture is totally different and it is a bit tricky to make because the steel cut oats are so hard and crunchy.  First you sauté the oats in butter (I add a dash of cinnamon), then add boiling water, stir it once in a while, and when that water is all gone you add some milk.  Then you keep stirring it until the milk is almost all gone and you have nice soft oats.  I also add some brown sugar with the milk.  If we have bananas, that's the best with some more cinnamon but I just had a little bit with my home-made apricot marmalade and it was awesome. 

It is funny because out of Ehren and I it is me who is more health conscious about what we eat and stuff and yet once in a while he will be the one who brings home something out of the blue that is very healthy, like the steel cut oats.  I didn't even know we could buy them here in our dinky town with hardly any grocery store options.  So now I make this oatmeal in the evening and refrigerate the leftovers for Ehren to have for breakfast and it stays good for days.  You just add a bit of milk and warm it up when you want to eat it.  Because, of course, who has half an hour to make a bowl of oatmeal before going to work? :)

Well, I just had to write about my discovery.  It was a very pleasant bowl of oatmeal with a total silence in the house since the kids already went to bed.  Now it is time to soak in my tub, which is where I can day dream, think out loud, pray, cry and hopefully get renewed for the next day.