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pokerfan

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26. Oatmeal in the rice cooker
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 03:38 AM
Feb 2012

Learned it from Roger Ebert....

Now you have your oatmeal. You can substitute any grain of your choice. Even amarath, seen as the favorite side dish in "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor." I like to use low-fat Silk soybean milk. Use what you like. Have a small or medium chopping block and a nice knife. Slice into smallish pieces the fruit of your choice. Any fruit except something like watermelon. I shouldn't have to be telling you this.

Slice your bananas, your peaches, your applies, pears, plums, apricots, strawberries, your Kiwi. Throw in your blueberries, your blackberries, your boysenberries, your this berry, your that berry. Drop in maybe a couple dried prunes. No, stupid. Not all the fruits at once. We're making breakfast, not fruit compote. Let's say two fruits together are nice. Bananas and peaches make Peaches 'n Cream. Mmmm! Chaz loves 'em.

While you're doing this, your oatmeal is already cooking. Figure out the hard way when to add the fruit to the Pot so it tastes the best and doesn't get all boiled to death on you. Okay. Fruit's in. Slam the lid back down. Cook, click, and Warm. It will wait there for you a long time. Find out the hard way what's too long. If the result looks like a potato pancake, that was too long. On the other hand, you can make a sortofa half-assed potato pancake, although not crisp on the bottom, that way. You can even start with instant potatoes, if you are a fool. Chop in some onions on the far turn. Throw in onions, peppers and mushrooms, and when they're thundering down the home stretch, some stirred-up eggs, and you have what down home we call Skillet.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/11/the_pot_and_how_to_use_it.html

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Quick scrambled egg (no milk) on a flour tortilla with cheese and hot sauce. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #1
Invest in a $10 small crockpot CurtEastPoint Feb 2012 #2
Cook your oatmeal in milk; it's lots better than gruel. Manifestor_of_Light Feb 2012 #20
Glass of juice and a banana. Graybeard Feb 2012 #3
Plain Greek yogurt with frozen blueberries LiberalEsto Feb 2012 #4
Yogurt or I just add milk and agave to my tea siligut Feb 2012 #5
Cashews, fruit, and skim milk n/t Shrek Feb 2012 #6
Have you ever checked out the Hungry Girl website? LoveMyCali Feb 2012 #7
I drink Orgain nutritional shake: IcyPeas Feb 2012 #8
Trader Joe fruit and fiber cereal with some of our own granola - almond milk, coffee. NRaleighLiberal Feb 2012 #9
My daily diet breakfast noamnety Feb 2012 #10
2 egg omelet with cheese and onion doc03 Feb 2012 #11
I try to keep it all liquids until noon. Or maybe some fruit or a smoothie. freshwest Feb 2012 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author freshwest Feb 2012 #13
Rare, but either yogurt, apple-cinnamon oatmeal and/or a banana. MiddleFingerMom Feb 2012 #14
Mixed fruit Generic Brad Feb 2012 #15
Mango or strawberry protein shake MissB Feb 2012 #16
Dannon Coffee yogurt and an English muffin riderinthestorm Feb 2012 #17
Usually a couple eggs,any style,with bacon,ham or sausage. Swede Feb 2012 #18
Handful of walnuts n/t Duer 157099 Feb 2012 #19
Best yogurt is mzteris Feb 2012 #21
sure they make grape nuts grasswire Feb 2012 #25
Banana bigwillq Feb 2012 #22
Oatmeal cooked in the microwave csziggy Feb 2012 #23
almonds or walnuts, dried cranberries, low fat milk grasswire Feb 2012 #24
Oatmeal in the rice cooker pokerfan Feb 2012 #26
i have been stuck on a bowl of cheerios for over a decade. BUT, afternoon i have a shake seabeyond Feb 2012 #27
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