Subject: RE: Favorite slow cooker recipes? just posted this in the breakfast thread, but since its a slow cooker recipe... here goes, (from fellow BTer, mosc11) 2 cups brown rice (long grain slow cooking kind) or you can use barley, steel cut oats... experiment! 5 cups liquid (I use 2 cups juice, apple or cranberry (I’m sure anything BUT OJ would work) and 3 cups water. You could use all water but I don’t think I would use all juice) 2 cups cut up apples (I have just used apples, just used pears and used a combination of the two) 2 cups dried fruit (whatever floats your boat on this, raisins, cranberries, dates, apricots blah blah blah) 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 tsp nutmeg (not necessary but I like it)
you throw it all in your crock-pot on low overnight (overnight for me is about 6 hours). Try the recipe first when you can watch it so you don’t have a burnt up mess when you wake up and no breakfast, if you do, just turn around and go back to bed.
Anyway, it comes out as a delicious hearty oatmeal type thing. I do a big batch and keep it in Tupperware in the fridge and then heat up a bowl at a time. I put honey and crushed almonds in mine but I have also heated it up and poured some vanilla soy milk or yogurt over it. It has lots of fiber, low in fat and high on taste.
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