Summertime Oatmeal Food

COOL SUMMERTIME OATMEAL

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine oats, milk, yogurt and honey. Refrigerate, covered, overnight., Top each serving with cherries, blueberries and walnuts.

SUMMER OATMEAL

Steps:

• In a saucepan, mix the fruit with the sugar and simmer gently.
• Simmer only until the fruit is soft and the sugar is dissolved. Remove from the burner and cool until the fruit is body temperature or less.
• In a bowl that you can store in the refrigerator, mix yogurt and uncooked oatmeal.
• After the fruit has cooled sufficiently, stir it gently into the oatmeal-yogurt mixture.
• Refrigerate this for at least 7 hours.
• For fruit, we use frozen blueberries, blackberries, and peaches. I do not recommend pineapple or other highly acidic fruit. We also are not fond of strawberries in this.
• We use homemade yogurt cultured from a very old Caspian sea culture (it's a bit runnier than standard yogurts).
• For sweetener, I use either brown sugar, maple syrup, honey, or cactus honey powder.
• Add spices and dried fruit or nuts as desired.
• I also will use a roasted whole seven-grain cereal in this recipe, but it requires closer to 12 hours to soften the grains.

SUMMER OATMEAL

Steps:

• mix all ingredients, cover and refrigerate 8 hours or overnight.
• Serve cold, with milk if desired.

SUMMERTIME OATMEAL

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients in large bowl and mix well.
• Refrigerate at least overnight.
• If too thick, add a little milk or fruit juice.
• Optional add-ins: sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, toasted wheat germ -- you get the idea.
• Serve chilled.