Whole oats
Berries – your choice
Chia
Brown sugar (optional)
Water or Milk
Put it all in a baking dish and mix it together. If you are feeling fancy you can make a crumb topping with butter and brown sugar and flour. Here is the ratio: 1 part butter, 1 part brown sugar and 2 parts flour (sometimes I use oatmeal instead). Or put turbinado (aka demerara) sugar on top
Bake at 3500 F till hot. Usually 20-30 minutes is enough.
Cooking for In-Laws:
I would not recommend it. Just kidding, it’s fine. Everything is just fine.
Minus the small comments about drinking being the devil’s work. And the dull knives.
It’s hard to write about family when you want them to still like you. Since my kids can’t read, they have no idea what I write about. Adult family is different. There is always the chance that they read…although my MIL may not since “fucking” is in the name of my blog and I’ve now heard several times how that is “just not a word she was brought up using” or something along those lines…I wonder if she is trying to tell me something?
She had no issues telling me she didn’t like my Oatmeal and Blackberry “Crisp”. Apparently if oatmeal is “creamy” she doesn’t like it. I’m not up for oatmeal you can drink, so I tend towards al dente. I also didn’t put sugar in it since I don’t want to feed my kids diabetes first thing in the morning. That too was an issue for her. I shouldn’t have said it was a crisp and just called it baked oatmeal and berries. Names can add expectations. Like “Christian”.
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