baked oatmeal

Thank you to those who commented in the last post about wabi-sabi. I loved that conversation.

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Shirley at work gave me this recipe. It is delicious, satisfying, and it's handy to bake it, say in the evening, and reheat it through the week. I eat mine heated, with milk poured on. But you can slice and eat it on the go. Add anything to the dry mix that suits you: favorite nuts, blueberries (I'll try them next), other fruit, seeds, wheat germ, whatever.

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Baked Oatmeal:

2 ½ cups long cooking oatmeal ("old fashioned" - not "quick oats")
½ cup brown sugar
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
½ tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp nutmeg (I leave this out)

1 cup milk
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
½ tsp almond extract

2 Tbsp butter – melt in pan that you will bake oatmeal in in the oven while it's preheating

Mix dry ingredients in one bowl and wet ingredients in the other and mix together - it will be just moistened.

Bake @ 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes