That recipe looks very delicious. My usual method for steel cut oats or cracked wheat is to boil three cups of water and a little salt the night before you want them. Add a cup of steel cut oats or cracked wheat, put the lid on, and take it off the heat. It's ready for breakfast; in the morning scoop out a bowlful and microwave it for a minute or two.

If you have leftover cooked steel cut oats, stick them in the refrigerator. They're great served cold with fresh fruit and yogurt. It's a little like Bircher Muesli.

If you don't like gummy quick oatmeal, use the following method:

Boil your water and salt. Shake the quick oats over the top of the boiling water. DO NOT STIR. You can shake the pot a little if you need to. After a minute, cover the pot, take it off the heat and let it sit for five minutes. Voila: perfect quick oats.

I like my oatmeal topped with pecans, dried cherries, and a little brown sugar.

That looks amazing. I've been trying to want to eat oatmeal more often...this should do it.

Adding dates, pecans and coconut to my shopping list...

This morning I had steel-cut oats with a sprinkle of brown sugar topped with warm homemade chunky applesauce. Yum!

(PS. The nuts in the photo look like walnuts.)

I make my steel cut oatmeal, put it in a bunch of recycled glass jars and heat in the microwave. When I eat oatmeal for non-breakfast (either lunch or dinner) I put cheddar cheese in there. I've been eating cheese in my oatmeal since I was a kid. Sometimes when I'm lazy and want a one dish meal and no crumbs, I put in peanut butter and jelly. Or PNut butter and cinnamon when I'm craving a peanut butter cookie.

I've been a rolled oats girl for a while, but this morning I tried steel-cut and they were amazing! I love the idea of dates and coconut. My usual breakfast is very similar to Lucrezia's - the chunky applesauce lightens up the oatmeal texture, and tastes awesome with some dried cranberries and raisins, too.

Looks like walnuts to me.

Oh my goodness you guys are right! I had a total mind blip when I wrote that. I was thinking walnuts and somehow pecans came out.

Oh yeah, this was great... especially the little bits of date and coconut! I made a double batch, and microwaved the rest this morning - it got much more solid, like polenta, and was great with cold milk poured over the top. Thanks for the inspiration!

I've always done a ratio of 1 part oats to 4 parts water as recommended on the package of Irish oats. I'm going to try it with less water, am curious to see how that comes out.

That looks heavenly and makes me wish I brought oatmeal with me for breakfast (or lunch!) today.

i used to eat my breakfast for lunch every day - i was never hungry in the morning! but i recently have started to bike down to work every day and boy, do i work up an appetite...

i always have some quick cooking oats in my desk for emegencies. and luckily, my desk lunch supply includes honey, and dried fruit and nuts.

though for lunch i crave savory and crunchy foods.

I want to add a great alternative to oatmeal.
Try my recipe for having MILLET as a breakfast/ lunch cereal. Millet is packed with nutrients including protein which is great to start the especially if you're a vegetarian or vegan.
Go to: http://www.lifeologia.com/?p=1014
Enjoy - it's really delicious, even my 2 year old prefers this over tooloops ;)

I had steel-cut oats for the first time for breakfast this morning.

Now I'm a believer.

I must admit, I haven't had the patience for steel cut oats..but when I do have oatmeal, which is my 'go-to' any time of day dish, I have it loaded. I have to add almond milk to make it a bit creamy and then through in a mix of any or all of the following:

desiccated coconut
chopped dried apricots
semi-sweet chocolate drops'
roasted almonds
roasted hazelnuts
banana
raisins
cranberries

It's such a treat!

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Oatmeal is my go-to winter breakfast, and I never mind pancakes or omelets for dinners, but somehow I can't wrap my mind around eating that stuff at lunch. Food "taboos" are weird things, so hard to overcome.

What I really object to is eating COLD cereal for dinner. I know several people who do that when they don't feel like cooking and to me that is just like you have given up on life!

OH I do make an exception for pannekoeken or crepes when in the lands of origin! Then they make the perfect lunch (but usually savory...)

I love eating breakfast for lunch :) I do more often in summer, when I enjoy a lot a green smoothie. Actually, I cane eat green smoothies both for breakfast and lunch. One of my favorites this Bloody 'Green' Smoothie with pears....the beets give an amazing color to it.

More examples of breakfasts I ate for lunch are this Vietnamese Dessert Pudding with White Beans and Sticky Rice in Coconut Milk and this Crème of buckwheat.

I also like doing the opposite, and eat lunch for breakfast :P