Baked Oatmeal Recipe

Erin (Hi Erin ::waving:: )asked for my baked oatmeal recipe. It is based on the baked oatmeal recipe from Money Saving Moms. I looked all over her blog and cannot find it, but I did print it several months ago, so I will post her recipe first, then mine.

MSM Baked Oatmeal:

Beat:
4 eggs
1 Cup Oil
1 1/2 Cup Sugar
Add
6 Cups Oats
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 t salt
cinnamon (optional)
Add:
2 Cups Milk

Let sit for 5 minutes so the milk will soak into the oats. Then pour into a greased 9X13 pan and bake at 350 for 25 minutes. If you like, you can sprinkle chopped apples and raisins and cinnamon on top before baking.

Here is how we make it here:

Beat:
4 eggs
1 cup butter, melted
3/4 cup sugar
Add:
4 cups oats
1/2 cup white flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup flax meal, buckwheat flour, oat flour, wheat germ (I just put the 1/2 cup measure out and add these things until I get to the top of the measuring cup - basically what you are looking for is 2 cups of flour - we just break it down as noted)
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
cinnamon
Add:
2 cups milk (sometimes I replace part of the milk with a few tablespoons of pureed white or garbanzo beans to up the protein)

In addition to letting it sit for 5 minutes, you can refrigerate it over night before baking. This recipe makes so much that we only bake it once every 3 weeks or so.

Menu Plan Monday - June 23, 2008

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Here's what we're having this week. I'm putting all locally grown items in bold.

Breakfast:

Baked Oatmeal
Toast with Blueberry Jam
Eggs and grits
Banana Nut Pancakes
Yogurt and fruit

Lunch (will include one fruit and one veggie):

Broccoli Cheese Soup
Grilled Cheese
PB & honey
Turkey Sandwhich
Chicken Salad Sandwhich


Snacks:

Carrot and Cucumber sticks with ranch dip
Blueberry Popsicles
Smoothies (strawberries, blueberries, bananas, yogurt, orange juice)
pumpkin scones
plums
watermelon (holy cow - this is the best watermelon I've ever had!)
Hummus and pita

Supper:

*Chicken Stir Fry over rice (some of the veggies for the stir fry are local - squash, onion, and green beans for sure and possibly more, depending upon what's at the market mid week)
*Hamburgers (found a source of LOCAL GRASS FED BEEF!)on a dressed bun (tomato is also local) with new potatoes and cucumber salad
* Chicken Enchilladas, squash and zucchini, broccoli
*Pan Fried Tillapia, black beans and brown rice
*Leftover Buffet

We are also having guests for the weekend. I plan to roast two chickens. I'm going to leave one whole and we can have it as roasted chicken with side dishes. I am going to take the meat off the other chicken and dice it. Half will go into chicken salad and the other half will be mixed with BBQ sauce. These will stay in containers in the fridge for quick sandwiches.

On a side note, this weekend, I cooked up a pound of pintos in the crock pot. I love doing this - its sooooo easy - the beans soaked all day Saturday then I cooked them Saturday night. We made refried beans out of some of it and the rest was packaged in 1 cup portions for another week. I'm trying to do this every week or every other week with different kinds of beans to give us a variety ready to use. We currently have white beans, black beans, garbanzo beans and now pintos in the freezer. Yay! I'll probably have to cook more garbanzos this week as we'll use the last of it for hummus this week.

Gardens, Blueberries and Kids

I sure hope these tomatoes start turning soon. This is two of our Roma tomato plants. We have 4 more Roma and 3 slicing tomatoes (can't remember the variety right off, maybe early girl?)

This is the potato box that my Dad made for me when he and Mom came up to visit. They're growing well.

Here is "garden cat". She "helps" me whenever I'm in the garden.

These blueberry scones are delicious. I substituted butter for the shortening called for in the recipe.

And finally, a cute kid photo. Here are the boys, keeping cool in our inflatable wading pool.

Blueberry Picking and Blueberry Popsicle Recipe

Today we went with some friends to a U-Pick Blueberry/ Blackberry farm. We had a blast picking berries and the farmer had this really cool machine to sort and bag the blueberries. The kids really enjoyed that as well.

We came home with a big bag of blueberries and another of blackberries. The blackberries are almost gone already, but the blueberries will take a little more time. We like them in stuff but don't eat them fresh. Here is something I'd like to do with some of them.

Juice Popsicle

The author of the above post uses lemon juice (which sounds wonderful), but I thought I'd substitute strained blueberry pulp. I'll post the results.

About Me

Meegan visited my blog today and posted a comment on MPM. When I checked out her blog, she had this fun question and answer posted, so I decided to put it here.



1) What was I doing 10 years ago?

Ten years ago, I was Corporate Accounts Manager for Enterprise Rent A Car in south Louisiana.

2) What are five things on your to-do list for today?

Weed and water the garden (will take less than 10 minutes, so you don't have to feel sorry for me ;o), dust, cook, a little school work with the boys, maybe take them to a movie

3) What snacks do I enjoy?

cookies, hummus, chips

4) Things I would do if I were a billionaire?

Buy a farm house with lots of land, both farm and wooded. Buy dh some german shepherds. Buy stuff for our family. Support charitable organizations.

5) Three Bad Habits

Procrastination, wasting time online, snacking

6) 5 places I have lived…

Lafayette, LA, Broussard, LA, Shreveport, LA (only 3)

7) 5 Jobs I have had

Dancing teacher, Substitute Teacher, data entry clerk, sales clerk, car rental agent

We're supposed to tag someone, but I'm not going to do that. Instead, I'll invite you to copy and paste to your blog. Please post a comment or link if you do.

Menu Plan Monday June 16th

I'm feeling much less organized this week, so, though its Tuesday, I'm still working on the menu for this week. Here's what we have so far.

Monday: DH wanted gyros from the Greek restaurant in our neighborhood for father's day, but they are closed on Sunday, so we had them for supper on Monday with homemade hummus and homemade tabouli.

Tuesday: Sloppy Joes, sweet potato fries

Wednesday: Lasagna, homemade bread, squash

Thursday: leftover buffet

Friday: BBQ chicken pizza, caramelized onion pizza and plain cheese pizza with a veggie tray

Saturday: grilled veggie panini, black beans and brown rice

Sunday: pesto over pasta spirals with roasted chicken, squash and broccoli


Breakfast:
Blueberry pancakes
baked oatmeal
eggs and bacon
waffles
yogurt with fruit

Snacks:
cut up fruit (strawberries, peaches)
blueberries or blackberries
veggie tray
yogurt
cheese stick
pretzels and peanut butter
biscuits and honey butter
banana nut bread
shortbread cookie

Lunch:
chicken salad sandwich
pb and honey sandwich
broccoli cheese soup
we'll probably have leftovers at least a few times for lunches

This week, I think our local "meal" will be spread out over several meals. I'm just not feeling organized enough right now to pull together a whole meal, but later on in the week, I may manage to make it happen. We will be doing a lot of local eating regardless. I have put everything we bought local or grew ourselves in bold. Not bad :o)

Visit I'm an Organizing Junkie for more menu plan Monday.

Hydrangea

Look what my boys brought in from the garden.