Weekly Recipe: soaked Baked Oatmeal

I feel I need to change the name of our weekly recipe, because I am posting it usually on a Saturday!!

This week, we are looking at our family favorite, (at least, the boys and mine's) : Soaked Baked Oatmeal.

This is beautifully tasty and a hearty start to a dreary winter's day.

Ingredients
the evening before combine...
3 cups organic rolled oats (not instant)
1/2 cup melted butter or coconut oil
1/3 cup honey ( preferably raw)
1 cup diluted live yogurt/ buttermilk/1 tsp lemon juice, topped up with water

Cover and leave in a warm place in your kitchen to soak.

The next morning, add
2 eggs
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
optional; chopped, peeled apples/ raisins /banana chips/ frozen berries

Mix in these ingredients and any optional extra you wish to add, smooth down the top a little, and bake in a medium oven, for around 45 mins, until set in the middle.

Serve with some fresh raw milk, or cream. Mmmmmmmm 

we eat this at LEAST once a week in our house, but my boys like it plain or with raisins. (every now and then I will throw in some berries for mama and tell them to pick them out if they don't want them....)

Slowly slowly fill the pantry..

Do you ever get an urge to clear out and start again?

This is how I get every few months. I get slack with things and then need a jump start.

At the moment it's my kitchen appliances.

I REALLY need would like a stand mixer at the moment. I have a small hand mixer, but a lot of the recipes I would like to make more often are made a lot easier by having one. 

So I do my usual, I begin researching, and trawling Amazon and Ebay to find just the one I want. 

I have no means to buy one yet, that's the problem.

I have a list on my refrigerator of all the things that I would slowly like to add or replace in my kitchen, and it's just not happening quickly enough for me!

My list includes (but is not limited to...)

• The aforementioned Stand Mixer
• A Grain Mill
• A Dehydrator
• A Slow cooker
• 2 more Cast Iron Frying Pans
• A Pizza Stone
• and a new collander!

I know it's a small thing, and I know that Jesus is teaching me patience at the moment, but today, I am not being a very good student. 

I am very blessed to have a working kitchen, I know this, and I know I need to wait and add slowly, I'm just feeling impatient today.

Is there anything that you are waiting somewhat patiently for? 

Wait with me, and we can wait in joy together. 

From tomorrow morning.......

Whole Wheat Yogurt Dough

So I thought it was time I posted some recipes here on The Family That Grows Together, and one of my recent finds has been this pie crust/ pastry recipe that I found on my fave site keeper of the home

Whole Wheat Yogurt Dough

Ingredients

1 cup butter softened

1 cup plain yogurt (I've used kefir before too)

3 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour (also good with spelt)

1  tsp fine sea salt

Method

·       Cream together the butter and yogurt (or kefir).  Slowly add the flour and salt until everything is combined into a nice dough.

·       At this point you can either use it immediately or leave it on the counter for 12-24 hours to soak.

·       When you are ready to use it, roll out the desired amount on a floured surface and use as desired.

·       Depending on what you are using the dough for, it usually takes around 30 minutes to bake at 350 degrees.  Adjust your baking temperature and time for what you are making.

For more details on why soaking your Nuts, Grains and Legumes is important, read here

We have has this twice now and it is soooo tasty!! 

Enjoy!