Recipe:
1/2 cup Country Choice Multi Grain (rye, barley, oats, wheat) hot cereal
1 slice of dried mango (not freeze-dried, no sweetened), ripped into thumbnail-sized pieces
3 dates (preferably Medjool), pitted and coarsely chopped
1 handful wild blueberries (e.g. Trader Joe's frozen)
1-1/2 cups water (optional: 3/4 cups milk and 3/4 cups water)
• Bring cereal, dates, mango, and water (or water/milk) to boil slowly (i.e. over medium-low heat) in a tall pot, stirring occasionally
• Reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
• Shut off heat, cover pot, and leave on burner for two minutes (if electric stove) or leave on minimal flame (gas stove)
• Stir in blueberries, cover, allow to sit two minutes.
Serves one hungry person.
Notes:
Salt is not necessary
All ingredients are available at Trader Joes
For truly great porridge (at ridiculous expense and heinous 75 minute cooking time), use a Zojirushi Rice cooker
5 comments:
75 minutes in a rice cooker? My friend makes steel-cut oatmeal by putting it in a crockpot overnight and insists it's far superior to the stirring for 30 minutes prep and obviously less labor-intensive.
Anyone know how much electricity a slow-cooker consumes?
Hmm....I wonder how that meme got started....? ;)
Well, I think they had you beat in the UK and Ireland. The lady of the farmhouse I stayed in Ireland, and her mother-in-law, used to do this many moons ago.
Totally possible. I certainly didn't invent the concept...
But anyway, what about my other point? I have to admit that I have no idea about the relative energy consumption of a toaster oven vs. a slow-cooker vs. a conventional oven.
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