Recipes, Recipes!

Here are as many recipes as I can type while Nigel is still asleep from the Emergency Preparedness Oats class last night.

No Bake Cookies
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup butter/margarine
2-4 TBLS cocoa (depending on how chocolatey you want them to be)
1/2 cup water

Bring to a full rolling boil. Watch closely, stirring constantly so that the sugar is dissoled but isn't burning.

Add 3 cups oats directly after taking above mixture off the heat, add 1 tsp vanilla. Mix well. If desired, add 1/2 cup peanut butter, 1.2 cup coconut or nuts. Drop by spoon onto waxed paper and let cool.

Instant Oatmeal Packets
3/4 cups solled oats
1 1/2 cups quick oats
1/2 cup powdered milk
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp salt (scant)
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Blend dry rolled oats in a blender, pulsing until oats are powdery (not flour). In a mixing bowl, combine powdery oats and the remaining ingredients.

Put 1.2 up instant oatmeal into zipper lock bags. For variety you can add toppings to each bag (raisins, other dried fruits etc.) Makes 6 instant packets.

To use, combine 1/2 cup instant oatmeal and 2/3 cup water in microwavable bowl. Microwave for approximately 2 minutes. (A little less for an 1100 watt microwave, and more or fewer watts) Stir.

Cranberry Almond Granola
4 cups old fashioned oats
2/3 cup honey
4 TBLS butter or margarine, melted
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup natural almonds, cjopped
1 cup sweetened flake coconut (optional)
1.2 cup wheat germ
1 cup dried cranberries

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place oatns in 2- 15 1/2 by 10 1/2 jelly roll pans. Place pans on 2 oven racks, and bake oats 18 to 20 minutes or until lightly toasted, stirring oats and rotating pans between upper and lower racks halfway through baking.

In large bowl, stir noney, butter, vanilla and salt. Stir in oats, almonds, coconut (if using), and wheat germ to coat.

Spray same pans with nonstick spreay. Spread oat mixture evenly in pans; bake 12 to 14 minutes or until golden-brown, stirring once and rotating pans between racks halfway through baking. Cool granila in pans on wire racks about 15 minutes.

Transfer granola to large bowl. stirn in fruit. Store at room temperature in teightly sealed container up to 2 weeks. (To keep crisp, store oat mixture separately from fruit; mix before serving).

Makes 10 cups.

Breakfast Take Alongs
2/3 cup butter or margaring
2/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 cup oats (quick or old Fasioned, uncooked)
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
1/2 cup wheat germ
6 crispy coooked bacon slices, crumbled

Beat together butter, sugar, egg and vanilla uuntil well blended. Add combined flour, soda and slat; miz well. Stir in oats, cheese wheat germ and bacon. Derop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto greases cookie sheet; bake at 350 degrees 12 to 14 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Cool 1 minute on cookes sheet; remove to wire cooling rack. Store in loosely covered container in regergerator or at room temperature.

Makes about 3 dozen cookies.

Oatmeal Cake
Serves 16

1 1 /4 cup....

The oatmeal cake and all the others will have to wait. I hear Nigel calling for me. Enjoy! It all sounds so yummy!