Summer Harvest Oatmeal Recipes

APPLE HARVEST OATMEAL

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat, and the apple and cook until lightly brown and soft, 2 minutes. Add cinnamon and sugar and cook until dissolved. Add the water and bring to a boil. Add the oats, wheat germ, flax, dried apples and raisins. Stir constantly for 2 minutes until oats are cooked and dried fruit is slightly plumped. Divide into 4 bowls, sprinkle each bowl with more brown sugar, a drizzle of milk and a dried apple ring.

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.

SWISS OATMEAL (SUMMER OATMEAL)

Steps:

• 1. In 2-quart saucepan combine water and oats. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered, 8 minutes (oats will not be tender). Remove from heat; transfer to mixing bowl. Cool 5 minutes. Stir in milk, yogurt, 2 tablespoons honey, apple pie spice, salt, and dried fruits. Cover; chill 12 hours or up to 3 days.
• 2. To serve*, heat oatmeal in saucepan over low heat 10 minutes. Stir in the remaining 1 tablespoon honey. Divide among serving bowls. Top with almonds and sliced banana.
• 3. *Note: Oatmeal may be served at room temperature; let stand 15 minutes before serving.

SUMMER OATMEAL

Steps:

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