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Yesterday evening, Michelle and I returned to the homestead from a visit to a distant planet: Washington DC.

We’d been gone since October 3rd, traveling by ferry and jet to attend and participate in my sister’s wedding. That’s why the recent post have been so pedantic—the blog’s been on autopilot for almost two weeks.

We had an excellent time! The wedding was fantastic, we met many new family and reacquainted ourselves with relatives, some of whom I’ve not seen for more than 40 years. My family assembled for the first time since Mom passed away 13 years ago. Continue reading →

Simple Pleasures: Steel Cut Oats

Even as an avid “granola cruncher,” I have to admit that there are few meals more homely—in the archaic, more positive sense of that term—than a bowl of hot oatmeal.

At some point we started eating oatmeal of steel cut oats instead of rolled oats. Also known as Irish or Scottish oatmeal, steel cut oats are whole oats scored slightly by the milling process, rather than being flattened and rolled, as is more common now. The less processed oats make a heartier meal.

Steel cut oats must have lost out to rolled oats because they take longer to cook. “Instant” oatmeal comes from rolled oats. We’ve found that the extra time it might take to prepare isn’t excessive. We originally developed tricks for reducing the cooking time that we no longer bother to use; here on the homestead we have the time to prepare a morning meal without the need to rush off to do something else. Continue reading →

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