Living alone I get lazy about cooking and go through food phases. Anyway been eating lot of oatmeal for breakfast. Have to give it good dose of honey and cinnamon to get it down sometimes. Decided to try something different this morning especially since I'm out of honey. Fired up the old cast iron tortilla press and mixed some quick cook oatmeal(not instant), water, and salt till it just stuck together. Put a glob on the hot tortilla press, pressed it flat, and cooked it(tortillas cook fast). Makes great tortillas even just eaten plain.

By way you can make tortillas out of just about any variety of flour. I used to really enjoy my "Thoreau" version out of rye meal and indian meal (corn meal) mixed together. Of course it doesnt have the piney taste he got from cooking it on a fresh split shingle over an open fire as described in Walden.

-- HermitJohn (hermit@hilltop_homestead.zzn.com), February 14, 2001

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I just LOVE oatmeal and buy it by the 50# bag at my favorite Amish store when it's 33 cents a pound. This is not a feed store but a bulk foods store. Quaker Oats--regular or instant. It has many uses and my favorite is just a bowl with a splash of milk and half of a banana diced in it. I many times have it for lunch. If I don't have fresh fruit, I use a spoonful of peanut butter from the pantry. It's also great in meatloaf, not to mention cookies, muffins, breads, etc. It's definitely my favorite pantry food.

-- Sandy Davis (smd2@netzero.net), February 14, 2001.

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I don't like oatmeal. Never did. But here's an oatmeal recipe that I can eat all day.

Virginia Countryside Oven Oatmeal

1/2 c. canola oil 2 large eggs 1 c. sugar 3 c. quick-cooking oatmeal 2 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 1 c. whole milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Whisk together oil, eggs and sugar. Combine oatmeal, baking powder and salt. Add to egg mixture along with milk and stir well.

Pour into buttered 1 1/2 qt. Baking dish

Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

-- walt (longyear@shentel.net), February 14, 2001.

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It is a proven fact that oatmeal will help lower your cholesterol.

-- bwilliams (bjconthefarm@yahoo.com), February 14, 2001.

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I'll have to try that tortilla recipe! We feed our dogs raw rolled oats (regular) soaked in raw milk, with a little brewer's yeast added. The vet has found no worms in them after several fecals, and the breeder we got one of the pups from (she got us started feeding this way) says her dogs very seldom have worm problems, and she's pretty sure it's because of the diet. They are healthy and look great, too.

-- Kathleen Sanderson (stonycft@worldpath.net), February 14, 2001.

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Our family likes raw oatmeal soaked in milk with brown sugar and a splash of vanilla. It tastes almost like cookie dough. The oats from the barn need to be soaked a little longer than house oats.

-- Laura (gsend@hotmail.com), February 14, 2001.

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Hmm...wonder if my old dog would eat oatmeal. I really like the super thick rolled oats from the health food warehouse the best, but just me its a hassle to deal with even 25 pounds at one time before they go stale so I throw couple boxes of commercial quickcook oatmeal in cart when I go to Aldis. The small pkgs of oatmeal at health food store are outrageous priced.

-- Hermit John (hermit@hilltop_homestead.zzn.com), February 14, 2001.

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My Mom used to feed our old dog oatmeal when we got food-money poor. He'd eat it, with a martyred look on his face. but he wouldn't like it. Got tired of it one week, I guess, because he let it cool until it congealed, nosed it around until it was a ball and hid it in Mom's house shoe. He got dog food the rest of the week. I'll never forget Mom's yelp that morning.

-- Soni (thomkilroy@hotmail.com), February 14, 2001.

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Here's a recipe my kids really like and I really like it because it gives me an excuse to heat the kitchen in the winter using the gas stove. :)

Baked Oatmeal 4 cups water 1 tsp. salt 3 cups oats 1/2 cup coconut 1/4 cup chopped dates 2 Tbs. oil

Boil water and salt Mix remaining ingredients Add water all at once Bake in shallow dish at 375 deg. for about 30-40 min.

You can add whatever you want to this. I got it out of a Seventh Day Adventist Cookbook.

Our dog licks the mash off the chickens dishes. I guess he'd probably eat oatmeal.

-- Heather in MD (heathergorden@hotmail.com), February 16, 2001.

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I tried this method of making oatmeal and everyone liked it. Boil water and add your oats until very thick. Pour into greased bread pan and refrigerate until hard or overnight. Turn out of pan, slice and fry in a little oil or butter, until lightly browned. We use maple syrup or jam. Just like fried cornmeal mush, except with oats. You could flavor it with vanilla, cinnamon, etc... when cooking it. this is a very good, cheap, hot breakfast and an easy way to get those oats down if you are getting a little tired of them.

-- Melissa (cmnorris@1st.net), February 16, 2001.

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If you love oatmeal, then you may love to drink a tea from an infusion of the milky tops of the oats. The tops of the plant are harvested when they exude a "milky" substance. After they are dried you infuse them in hot water (to make a strong tea) and drink liberally. I drink about three cups a day. This is a great way to get your calcium and trace minerals, and oats are traditionally a wonderful herb for the nervous system, helping to tonify and help the body deal with stress. Oats are also great for skin care--the remedy of choice for chicken pox, hives, and other itchy skin lesions--used in a bath.

-- amy (acook@in4web.com), February 17, 2001.

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I make an oatmeal concoction that I eat raw with milk. Very healthy and easy, too. 1 T.each: raw oatmeal, grapenuts, sunflower seeds, raisins, sliced almonds; sliced banana on top. Keeps me going until about 3 in the afternoon. I don't use any sugar on it- seems to be sweet enough with all the stuff in it.

-- Peg (wildwoodfarms@hushmail.com), February 17, 2001.

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Milk, brown sugar and raisins for me please! I love the stuff. I ate it every day while I was nursing all three of my children. Even my Ob/Gyn said it was a great milk inducer. Musta been some truth to that because I had milk a-plenty. Nursed this last one til he was 3-1/2 years old! Even my mother-in-law said she was told to eat it when she nursed all three of her children too.

And oatmeal raisin cookies are one of my all time favorites. You know, I've never tried making any homemade oatmeal raisin cookies before. Anyone got a yummy recipe for oatmeal raisin cookies?

-- Greenthumbelina (sck8107@aol.com), February 19, 2001.

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We get oatmeal from the Amish too. I like the quick kind. I make granola cereal with it as well as bread and cookies. A family nearby has hot oatmeal cereal for breakfast and the left overs they fry up for lunch. It's very filling!!!

-- michelle (tsjheath@ainop.com), February 20, 2001.

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Hey, I tried that Virginia Countyside Oven Oatmeal. It was great! Sort of like hot oatmeal cookies. the kids loved it and it was easy too.

-- Denise (jphammock@msn.com), February 21, 2001.