The reviewer gave this recipe 4 stars. This recipe averages a 3.19 star rating.
Reviewed: Jun. 17, 2009
The flavor reminds me of an apple crisp. I stuck to the recipe but had to sub 1 extra cup of water for the apple juice (didn't have) and used 1 cup of crangrape for the cranberry juice. I will probably use the steel cut oats next time. The rolled oats are a little mushy (I did not stir until I served it). I will also add more apples and cut in larger pieces. Great idea!
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The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 3.19 star rating.
Reviewed: Jan. 30, 2009
GOOD IDEA, BUT RESCUE THIS RECIPE LIKE SO: The idea for this recipe was almost certainly gleaned from a bed & breakfast cookbook, the idea being that B&B owners are very busy in the morning, so they do as much prep the night before as they can. You can still accomplish the convenience, however, without the awful (think wallpaper paste) texture of crock-pot cooked oatmeal, and still avoid having much to do or clean up in the morning. Here's how: THE NIGHT BEFORE: toss together the following, and store in an airtight bowl in the fridge: sugar, spices, salt, cut up butter, cut up apples, cranberries (I substituted raisins), and nuts (I used slivered almonds). IN THE MORNING: put 2 1/2 cups water and the bowl full of sugar/fruit into a large pot and bring to a boil. Forget all that juice--too sweet! Notice that the total liquids is significantly reduced from the original recipe, because it's not sitting all night in a crock pot, getting "pasty". When it just begins to boil, add 2 cups regular rolled oats and cook 5 minutes. Done! All you had to do in the morning was combine pre-prepared ingredients and cook 5 minutes. You get delicious gourmet oatmeal without the "yucky" texture, and your kitchen is still clean in the morning because you did all the prep and clean-up the night before. One more tip, for those looking for home-made breakfasts without the chaos and mess (and time!) in the mornings: You can make pretty much anything the night before and just bake, cook,
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The reviewer gave this recipe 4 stars. This recipe averages a 3.19 star rating.
Reviewed: Jan. 20, 2009
Very tart - but good. Next time I'll use a different type of apple and maybe cut down on the cranberry juice. Good and super easy to put together. It's best served and cooled slightly before eating.
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The reviewer gave this recipe 1 stars. This recipe averages a 3.19 star rating.
Reviewed: Jan. 16, 2009
I wanted to love this recipe, but I should have listened to the majority of the reviews.. As soon as I lifted the lid, it smelt bad and the apples were bland and tasteless. The oatmeal was very tart from the Cranberry juice.
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Reviewed: Dec. 25, 2008
This oatmeal recipe is not good. Way too much going on - the amount of spices was too great, and there just wasn't enough oats to make it seem like oatmeal. I hate that I wasted my time with it for Christmas breakfast!!! (And I even read the reviews; now I wish I would've listened!) My husband thought it had too much spice in it, and he usually likes everything.
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Reviewed: Oct. 14, 2008
Much too tart for us. Came out pretty goopy (and I used steel cut oats).
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The reviewer gave this recipe 4 stars. This recipe averages a 3.19 star rating.
Reviewed: May 19, 2008
Very good!!!! next time I'll use a steel cut oatmeal...
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Reviewed: May 9, 2008
we loved this. My husband and I even ate it the next day because it was so good.
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The reviewer gave this recipe 2 stars. This recipe averages a 3.19 star rating.
Reviewed: Mar. 25, 2008
This had to many flavors going on. I think simple cinnamon would have been fine. After reading other reviews about burning the crockpot, I sprayed mine with PAM and nothing stuck to it. This was not very good at all.
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Reviewed: Feb. 13, 2008
I hate to give it such a low rating but it turned out to be a big mushy mess! I followed to recipe to the exactly and it smelled great but it was un eatable. I think it just might be the diffeances in crock pots
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The reviewer gave this recipe 4 stars. This recipe averages a 3.19 star rating.
Reviewed: Jan. 19, 2008
I had no issue with the oatmeal sticking to the crockpot. Made for Christmas and my husband and brother loved so much, they asked me to make again today.
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Reviewed: Jan. 7, 2008
My husband and 15 yr old son love oatmeal so I made this for Christmas morning. Followed recipe and cooked on low about 8 hrs...smelled and tasted wonderful. Nice base recipe to play around with. The only thing I would do different next time is to not cook it so long- found it to be a bit mushy, which is why I gave it 4 stars and not 5... Thanks for this very different and yummy breakfast treat!
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The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 3.19 star rating.
Reviewed: Dec. 28, 2007
I had no problems with my crock pot burning. It looked and tasted like beautiful oatmeal with some gourmet touches. My family loved it!
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The reviewer gave this recipe 3 stars. This recipe averages a 3.19 star rating.
Reviewed: Dec. 28, 2007
This recipe was not great. My kids who love oatmeal didn't even eat this. I like the concept but the ingredients made this too sour. I used 100% Cranberry juice not the coctail so maybe that had a little to do with the tartness. This cooked for over 8 hours on low and I had to add another cup of oats and cook longer to thicken it up. If I do this again I will use all apple juice and water and may substitute the cranberries for raisins. I am not sure if I can even get my husband to try it with out the cranberry juice after tasting the origial.
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The reviewer gave this recipe 1 stars. This recipe averages a 3.19 star rating.
Reviewed: Dec. 26, 2007
No problems with crock pot burning as mentioned in another review. I really was excited about the recipe...all of the ingredients looked great. But my kids wouldn't even try it. I filled my bowl and ate about 3 bites. Too sweet for me. I'll stick with Quaker Instant oatmeal in the future.
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The reviewer gave this recipe 4 stars. This recipe averages a 3.19 star rating.
Reviewed: Dec. 26, 2007
Tried Christmas morning for a large family gathering, and it received good reviews, and it didn't burn my Croc! This is a good base recipe, can't wait experiment, thanx for the post!!!
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Reviewed: Dec. 26, 2007
We thought this was wonderful. I sprayed the crockpot with pam, and didn't have any problems with sticking. I have an extremely hot crockpot, so I only put it on "keep warm" about 2am, and it was ready and perfect by 7am. Loved it!
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Reviewed: Dec. 26, 2007
To avoid burning my crockpot, I used a Reynolds turkey cooking bag and lined my crockpot with it. I made this for my husband's family and they loved it- even the avowed non-oatmeals eaters! Just because I love the spice with apples, I added cardamom to the spice mix. I tripled this recipe (I have a very large crockpot) and it held up just fine. The only thing I would do differently, when I enlarge the recipe is cut back on the cinnamon, because tripling that was way too much. I loved the combination of cranberry and nutmeg. This also reheated very very well-- after leaving my husband's family, the oatmeal sat for about and hour and half, before I plugged in the crockpot again at my parents, and it warmed back up delightfully.
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The reviewer gave this recipe 1 stars. This recipe averages a 3.19 star rating.
Reviewed: Dec. 26, 2007
I really wanted to like this but I just couldn't. I took one bite and my boyfriend wouldn't even try it. It was like a big pot full of thick hot cranberry juice. I put the whole batch in the blender and mixed about 3 TBS with plane oatmeal for our 8 month old. She loved it! If you ask her it would be a 5 star recipe. I put the rest in in ice cube trays and froze it. Now we have enough home made organic baby food to last us until next christmas. Also I didn't add the butter because I didn't think any of us needed that much fat. I will try again with a lot of changes.
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The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 3.19 star rating.
Reviewed: Dec. 26, 2007
We made this Christmas eve and it was ready for a nice relaxing breakfast after opening stockings. Our kids gobbled it up! We did use a crockpot liner which made clean up a breeze!
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