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vespachicaI'm stealing this from the comments section of a food blog on our local paper's website. It's a very good idea and, in fact, adding walnuts or almonds to it would be even better.
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Don't buy instant oatmeal at all for use at home. Children who are old enough to make instant oatmeal on their own are old enough to do this safely. This is better:
Buy oats in bulk at PCC, Whole Foods, or Fred Meyer, around the Puget Sound area - regular rolled oats, steel cut oats, quick cooking oats - your choice. I use regular or steel cut for the oatmeal described here.
Use a 4-cup pyrex glass measuring cup (not smaller, and not plastic) and your microwave.
Measure 1 cup of bulk oats into the pyrex container. Add a tablespoon of sugar or maple syrup.
Add about 1 3/4 cup of water. You can add a little more water later.
Cook for two minutes, uncovered in the microwave, on high. The 4-cup pyrex measure is big enough so that nothing will spill out.
Stir one thinly sliced banana into the oatmeal.
Return to the microwave and cook for another minute. Remove and stir again. Cook for one more minute.
Remove the oatmeal from the microwave, and cover the pyrex container. Let it stand for a few minutes, then enjoy it.
As soon as you serve the oatmeal out of the Pyrex measuring cup, fill it with water and leave it in the sink. It will be easy to wash by hand, or in the dishwasher, with your breakfast dishes. No messy stove-top pan to clean up. That's my favorite part, and the reason many people use instant.
This recipe is infinitely adaptable: change the sweetener used at the start; change the fruit added after the first 2 minutes of cooking.
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Don't buy instant oatmeal at all for use at home. Children who are old enough to make instant oatmeal on their own are old enough to do this safely. This is better:
Buy oats in bulk at PCC, Whole Foods, or Fred Meyer, around the Puget Sound area - regular rolled oats, steel cut oats, quick cooking oats - your choice. I use regular or steel cut for the oatmeal described here.
Use a 4-cup pyrex glass measuring cup (not smaller, and not plastic) and your microwave.
Measure 1 cup of bulk oats into the pyrex container. Add a tablespoon of sugar or maple syrup.
Add about 1 3/4 cup of water. You can add a little more water later.
Cook for two minutes, uncovered in the microwave, on high. The 4-cup pyrex measure is big enough so that nothing will spill out.
Stir one thinly sliced banana into the oatmeal.
Return to the microwave and cook for another minute. Remove and stir again. Cook for one more minute.
Remove the oatmeal from the microwave, and cover the pyrex container. Let it stand for a few minutes, then enjoy it.
As soon as you serve the oatmeal out of the Pyrex measuring cup, fill it with water and leave it in the sink. It will be easy to wash by hand, or in the dishwasher, with your breakfast dishes. No messy stove-top pan to clean up. That's my favorite part, and the reason many people use instant.
This recipe is infinitely adaptable: change the sweetener used at the start; change the fruit added after the first 2 minutes of cooking.
