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Christmas Oatmeal

3 cups rolled oats
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup melted butter
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt

Heat oven to 400F and spray a cookie sheet or large baking pan with non stick cooking spray.

Mix oats and brown sugar with melted butter until evenly coated.  Add milk, eggs, baking powder, cinnamon and salt.  Mix together then pour onto sprayed cookie sheet.

Cook for 30 minutes, remove from oven and break up oatmeal with spoon, then you can put back in oven for 5-10 minutes, if you want oatmeal a little more crisper.

Serve with milk (you might want to reheat it in the microwave after adding milk), with yogurt, fresh berries etc.

Enjoy!

Thank You Pat Trew

Breton delivers the EMC our local newspaper.  Within this paper, there is always a recipe from Pat Trew (recently I blogged about Kitchen Sink Cookies, a modified version of her Breakfast Cookies).  I have also adopted her homemade oatmeal recipe and it has become my traditional Christmas Oatmeal that we eat all year round.  This recipe, we even used as Christmas gifts to our parents in my class last year.  Well Pat Trew submitted her final recipe last week.  After 34 years of recipes, she revealed that she is battling lung cancer.  So sad:)  Not only have these two recipes become part of my regular recipe box but I have collected and tried several other recipes from her.  I actually looked forward to them each week.  I knew, as I flipped through the paper when I saw Mary Cook's article, in a couple pages there would be Pat Trew's recipe.  Thank you Pat Trew for inspiring me to cook with your easy to follow yet so delicious recipes.

www.emcbarrhaven.ca if you want to look through past recipes from Pat Trew

Kitchen Sink Cookies

Here is a recipe I have modified.  It was originally in the local paper that Breton delivers EMC (Pat Trew) and they were called Breakfast Cookies.  And yes we have eaten these for breakfast.

3/4 cup margarine or soft butter
3/4 cup Brown sugar
2 eggs
3 tbsp molasses
1/2 cup milk
1 cup flour (multi grain/whole wheat or white)
1 cup bran (I have used bran cereal (ALL BRAN)for this, take the 1/2 cup milk and soak the cereal 1st with it before adding to the other ingredients)
2 cups oatmeal
3/4 tsp baking powder*
1 tsp salt

Here is the kitchen sink part:

I have, at different times added the following ingredients, by handfuls.  You may add them all or add others you like

One handful of:  chopped dates, chocolate chips (maybe 2 handfuls for this one), sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds (shelled), coconut, flax seeds

Instructions:

Cream together sugar and margarine.  Add eggs, molasses and mix well.

Stir in all other ingredients, mixing thoroughly.

I drop them by the tablespoon on a greased cookie sheet.  Bake at 350F for 11 minutes

Enjoy!