Crockpot Oatmeal, yum, yum!

Matt and I have been enjoying this recipe for sometime now. The original recipe says that it takes all night for this to cook; I find in my crockpot it takes about 4-5 hours. This recipe doubles VERY well. I usually double it. It has lasted for over a week and reheats great!

The only ingredients you need! Look at those lovely steel-cut oats!!!

Crockpot Oatmeal

1 cup steel cut oats

4 cups water

1/2 cup half & half

Combine & cook on low. Feel free to add fruit while cooking. Matt eats his with honey, I'm a brown sugar girl. :)

Before, after all ingredients are mixed!

And after, when oatmeal is finished!!

What to do with squash? New Recipe

Gesh, it's been some time since I posted. School started again and the harvest swung into fashion. We were able to save quite a few veggies and still have about 1 1/2 bushels of apples in the garage/root celler. (For some reason, I prefer to think of it as a root celler, more romantic!) Part of what we have left are a multiude of squash. Now, I like squash but after a while, they get, well, boring. So I developed a new recipe for Christmas:


Squash Tart

1-2 squash ( I used Delicata and some other type that I forgot the name of, but I think any winter squash would work)
cream cheese (I used 1 1/2 boxes), room temperature
onion
bacon
puff pastry, thawed
spices

Clean the squash and cut into 1 inch-ish squares. Place on a baking sheet, drizzle with oil and salt, bake until soft.

Cook 3-4 slices of bacon. Remove from pan and add chopped onion, saute.

Roll the puff pastry till about 1/2 inch thick. Add spices to cream cheese (I added celery salt and pepper and a little of the bacon but add what you would like)

Place puff pastry on baking sheet on parchment paper. Smear cream cheese on pastry, put squash, onion, and bacon on pastry. Roll up edges slighty to form crust.

Bake at 350 for 25ish minutes, or until done. Enjoy!