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and looked at many many slow cooker books......
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ended up buying "Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Book" at least in part because it had clear directions for translating a stovetop or oven recipe to slow cooker use.
it also had an overnight Oatmeal recipe
i have seen this before, but never tried it. so i did. i put this on last night, and between my trusty crock pot, and my "coffee pot" (tea, thank you) i woke up with breakfast already made......
4 cups water
1 cup steel cut oats (not quick cook, not rolled oats)
pinch salt if desired
cook on low 8-9 hours or overnight
i used Mc Canns, the kind you can buy in a can? (yes you can get it in a box too) and doubled the recipe because i only have a BIG crock pot.
i ate it, hubby ate it.. hubby likes it better than regular oatmeal!
no breakfast to cook while trying to run out the door!
note:
in my case, a large oval crock pot and 8 cups water to 2 cups oatmeal, i came down to find that it was VERY liquid, underneath a tougher chewy crust layer. stirring solved most of that and within a half hour it was pretty consistently thick and creamy
hubby liked the chewy top part the best though
the book has a similar recipe that calls for putting in tons and tons of dried fruit (yummmmmmm) and ladling any leftover into a pan to set up in the fridge, this to be served cold as a sort of chewy meal bar
I found the "recipe" on the ever-amazing Year of Slow Cooking blog and mentioned it to my kids, and my son was wild to try it. So today, since school was closed, we decided to try it.
He sorted out all the broken crayons (and furtively broke a few good ones when I wasn't looking - grin) and then we soaked them in water for a while to loosen the wrappers. Then we peeled off the wrappers. This took a while, despite the very long soaking we gave them. Interestingly, Crayola wrappers were much harder to get off while the wrappers of the generic crayons (you know, the kinds you get at restaurants with kids meals and so on) peeled off pretty easily. However, this was the least fun part of the job. We stood at the sink peeling crayons for ages!
I picked up a six-hole foil muffin tin at the grocery. It wouldn't fit into my 6 quart crock, even after trimming, so I cut it up into three pairs of two holes. We sorted the crayons by color families and ended up with red, orange, blue, purple, yellow and green - one color in each muffin hole.
I fitted them into my crock pot and cooked on high for an hour or so - we sort of forgot about it so it sat on warm for a bit after that. Then I turned off the crock and let the muffin tins sit until the crayons had hardened some before I took them out of the crock. I probably should have stuck them in the fridge to cool, but I just let them cool down on the counter for a while and then we popped them out of the foil and voila! Giant crayons!
A couple of them are kind of in layers - apparently the good quality Crayolas sink to the bottom of the crayon and the cheepo crayons float to the top. But they look really cool!
These would probably be great for preschoolers because they are so nice and big and chunky to hold. They'd be fun presents for a little kid. ;-)
My son and I decided that we would offer to take the broken crayons at his aftercare's preschool and make these crayons for them.... IF the preschoolers will take off the wrappers!
Feel free to check them out!!
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That said, can anyone suggest some starting points for finding a job as a last-year senior? Really, I'd be happy doing just about anything, so long as it is in a professionally relevant environment!
Seriously, any suggestions would be totally welcomed. Thanks in advance!
That said, can anyone suggest some starting points for finding a job as a last-year senior? Really, I'd be happy doing just about anything, so long as it is in a professionally relevant environment!
Seriously, any suggestions would be totally welcomed. Thanks in advance!
I'm preparing for a debate about pre-marital counseling and personality test.
The usage of personality tests should be compulsory while in pre-marital counseling?
I debating in favor of the premise.
I've found very little information that can sustain my position.
The arguments to discuss are:
- It confirms if the couple is 'meant to be' (compatibility)
- By taking the personality test the couple can identify the fields that they need to work on to make their marriage a stable one.
If somebody knows about any articles that can point me in the right direction it would be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
- Mood:
working
My ex-wife Julia Ilina, a Russian national, a manager in the Danone company, kidnapped our newborn son Max in summer 2009 and has since forcibly detaining a baby in her Moscow apartment. What’s worse, Julia Ilina left the baby to the custody of her own mother and doesn’t take care of my son but sporadically visiting their apartment.
Julia’s reason is as simple as fony: allegedly I, a Canadian citizen, will be able to bring Max, a Canadian citizen, back to Canada without her consent.
Regardless of her actual motivation, Julia prevents little Max to keep company with his father (that is, me) for months now. As a result, I have been unable even to take a photo of the child to apply for his travel passport.
I filed a claim to a court in Moscow recently. Still, my chances to win a case in a Russian court versus a Russian respondent are next to zero.
This is why I have to publish this address. I consider it as my last resort for the time being. I bear a hope that there are some international human rights groups as well as the individuals that deal with children’s rights of this kind.
I’ll be grateful for any help, any advice, any action that could free my baby-son of his hijacker-mother.
Thank you.
Any suggestions on how to tone down the heat a bit? I've heard adding sugar helps, but I'm so afraid I'll add too much and it'll be gross. Anyone? Anyone?
Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.
We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!
As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.
Hi.
Not sure what sort of thing to write, so here goes.
I'm a full time working mother, age 30. I am the breadwinner of my household, while my husband has the extremely important task of taking care of our son while I'm at work. I've struggled through a lot to get where I'm at, but I don't often write about them since I feel they are in the past and I'm extremely happy with where I am and who I've become. Most of the scars have seemed to heal, so I don't see the need of opening them again by rehashing too often. Sometimes, I do vent though, but I do try not to rant. I'm completely not into drama. People don't have to agree with me, but there's a point where you agree to disagree... though I'm not against people pointing out different viewpoints in a respectful manner.
I have a lot of interests which would be difficult to list, since it seems I'm always adding to them. I'm currently doing a lot of sewing (as can be seen on my sewing blog, Sew Mankycat) and cooking (mostly focusing on Korean and other asian cuisines at this time). I have a degree in Fine Arts, which I sometimes wonder "What was I thinking?" while reminding myself that I was misinformed that the degree doesn't really matter (partially true, but not completely... my current job does stress types of degrees).
I'm currently reading The Unquiet by John Connolly (and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, though I set it aside for the time being). Recommended books: The Last Unicorn (Peter S. Beagle); Alice In Wonderland (Lewis Carroll); Neutron Star (Larry Niven); Kitchen God's Wife (Amy Tan); The Stolen Child (Keith Donohue); Gorky Park (Martin Cruz Smith); Innkeeper's Song (Peter S. Beagle); War For The Oaks (Emma Bull); Book of Lost Things (John Connolly); Body Language (Julius Fast). Recommended movies: Gorky Park; Band of Brothers (tv series); Supernatural (tv series). Recommended webcomics: No Rest for the Wicked; Order of the Stick
I have been described as "The girl with the unapologetic smile." I'm not sure I agree, but it's a nice compliment.
Hi there! I'm back on LJ after a long hiatus and losing my interest to post on my old journal. I intend to change all that with this new journal. So far I only have two tiny entries but I hope to expand that, as the holiday season falls upon us and as my creativity progresses.
I'm looking for friends who'd be interested in the same things I am and would leave a comment every now and then when they feel so inclined. I like reading about all sorts of things - even if you think your life is boring, I'll probably still find something to say about it!
I am:
...from Pennsylvania
...26-years old
...a single (bisexual, though I prefer men) female (not really looking though)
...a huge fan of Matthew Gray Gubler and Criminal Minds
...a fan of Dexter, House M.D., Six Feet Under and CSI (Vegas, not Miami or NY so much)
...a starving artist always seeking inspiration, a muse, anything!
...the proud owner of two cute cats and a stupid dog
...interested in people and things of all sorts, especially unique and/or creative/artsy-fartsy types
...sarcastic, dry, "dark"
...almost always at home due to chronic knee problems and seizures
...interested in getting into the "world" of LJ - i.e. I'd love to start making icons, picspams, etc.
...terrified of clowns
...made of skin and bones so I hate cold weather
And of course there's more info on my profile page! If you have some things in common or just want to add me then feel free (with the exception of friends collectors please. I don't want to be just a number) and I'll most likely add you back.
Thanks for reading and I hope to get acquainted with some of you!
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And we do like to keep an eye on whatever blogs patients use if it's a public domain to ensure confidentiality and that they're not defaming us, so it's common practice to scan them every so often. Frankly I wouldn't want to see myself or my coworkers get screwed because a patient was posting shit about us!! Anyways. Thoughts on the situation? Thanks!!
And happy remembrance day, too!!
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Sincerely,
me
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