I discovered this Multigrain Hot Cereal from
Trader Joe's when I stopped in to buy the regular steel-cut variety oats last week. During the winter months we love nothing better than waking up to a bowl of warm, steaming cereal that has cooked overnight in the crock pot. Last night I set the slowcooker up using this multigrain cereal and plugged it in;
good to go... or so I thought. Let me caution you not to try this without your glasses on! This morning when I got up I could hear the lid to the slowcooker jiggling furiously,
strange, I thought; the sound was accompanied by a roasty-toasty smell. I turned on the overhead light and lifted that jiggling lid to find the crock lined with well-cooked, multi-grain
leather. Yep. I checked the setting, only to find that it had cooked it on HIGH for seven hours! This isn't a set-up that I recommend, unless you want hot cereal jerky. What I
can recommend though, highly, is this cereal; cooked the proper way, it is absolutely delicious.
Here's the recipe for overnight hot cereal in a slowcooker:
Butter the inside crock of your slowcooker and add an amount of dry cereal grains consistent with the number of servings that you wish to prepare (check the label). Whatever that amount is, triple it in liquid (can be all water, all milk or water/milk combination) and add that to the dry cereal, stir to mix. Put on the lid and set your slowcooker to WARM (or your lowest setting).
Believe me, I know precisely where that setting is now; I've woken up... to "warm"!
Life is Good!
