Slow Cooker Steel-Cut Oats

Slow Cooker Steel-Cut Oats

Ingredients:

1 cup Steel-cut oats

1 cup dried fruit

4 cups water (or milk)

1/2 cup half and half

Garnish:

Butter, sugar, cream, and/or milk

Instructions:

1.  Combine all ingredients except garnish in a slow cooker.  

2.  Cover and cook on low setting for 8-9 hours.

3.  Enjoy!!

Mark's story:

We were camping in the Keewenaw Peninsula in Michigan - absolutely beautiful UP there!!  This is one of the meals I started the night before so it'd be ready in the morning.  This is probably one of the easiest recipes I have ever done.  And I still managed to screw it up.  Making it the night before, I only added 1 cup of milk and not 4 cups.  Next morning, it was all dried up and we had to toss it.  I made scrambled eggs instead.  I tried it again the next day.  Next try and it was wonderful.  You can use whatever dried fruit you want with this.  Very easy to make and everyone enjoyed it.

Jesus loves you!!  Enjoy your day!!

Key Lime Pie

Key Lime Pie

For the Graham Cracker Crust:
Ingredients:

1/3 cup butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 1/4 cup finely crushed graham crackers

Instructions:
1.  Coat a 9 inch pie plate with cooking spray (I use olive oil)
2.  Melt butter
3.  Add sugar to butter  - stir

4.  Stir in the finely crushed graham crackers
5.  Pour into pie dish and spread across bottom and sides
6.  Heat oven to 375 degrees
7.  Bake crust for 5 minutes or until edges are light brown
8.  Cool completely

For the Key Lime filling:
Ingredients:
14 ounce can of sweetened condensed milk
1 teaspoon finely shredded Key lime peel
1/2 cup Key lime juice or lime juice
2 cups whipping cream - 1 cup for the filling, 1 cup for the topping

Instructions:
1.  In a bowl, combine together the condensed milk, the teaspoon of Key lime peel, and the 1/2 cup lime juice.
2.  In a separate bowl, beat 1 cup of the whipping cream with an electric mixer at medium to high speed until soft peaks form.
3.  Fold the whipped cream into the lime mixture.
4.  Pour/spoon filling into the prepared Graham Cracker crust.
5.  Cover and freeze for at least 2-4 hours.  Can be left overnight in freezer.
6.  When ready to serve, beat the remaining 1 cup of whipped cream until soft peaks form.
7.  Spread this over the Key lime filling.
8.  Enjoy

Mark's Story:
Key Lime Pie is supposed to be one of the easiest pie recipes to make out there.  I tried to make this one year for Christmas and I didn't have enough lime juice and no one could taste the lime.  So that was a fail.  I decided to make this again for our Pi(e) day celebration (3.14).  I made it the night before and I bought actually Key Lime juice or I thought I had.  I actually bought Key West lemon juice.  Fortunately, I had enough fresh limes to make this.  I take it into work for our Pi(e) day celebration and everyone loved it.

Then I got home and made another batch.  I actually stopped at the store first and bought another pie plate first along with Key West lime juice.  We had two pie plates but one broke at some point so I got another one.  This pie was for my family.  We tried it with and without the extra whipped cream topping.  Trish liked both.  Miriam didn't like it at all.  I liked it with the extra topping.  Took some of the tartness away.  Miriam didn't like the tartness at all.  

Remember Jesus loves you.  John 3:16-17.