Recipes | Pamela Toman

Cranberry Baked Oatmeal

Cheery, festive, tasty. Easy too. (Except for picking through the berries....)

Ingredients	Step
	Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease a 9x9" baking dish.
1½ c. cranberries	Spread in a single layer on the bottom of the greased dish.
1¾ c. old fashioned oats ½ c. nuts, chopped ¼ c. flaked coconut, unsweetened 1½ t. cinnamon ½ t. ginger, ground ¾ t salt	Combine in a large bowl.
1 egg 2 T. coconut oil, melted 2 c. milk ¼ c. maple syrup 2 t. vanilla	Whisk together in a separate medium bowl.
	Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture, and stir to combine. Pour the oat mixture over the cranberry layer in the baking dish.
½ c. cranberries, fresh 2 T. flaked coconut	Sprinkle on top.
	Bake at 350 degrees until the top of the oatmeal is set, roughly 30-40 minutes.

Source: Sarah via Tasty video

Serve with cranberry sauce, applesauce, and/or sour cream.

Can fry in morning & leave on paper towels at room temperature, then reheat on a cookie sheet at 400 degrees or under a broiler.

1½ pounds of potato serves 4 people.

Ingredients	Step
2 onions	Grate on a box grater. Squeeze excess juices out over sink.
3 lb. boiling potatoes	Grate on a box grater. Rinse & squeeze excess juices out over sink.
oil	Start heating oil in a skillet.
6 T. flour 1 t. salt 3 eggs	Combine, then mix in onions and potato.
	Fry.

Source: Aaron's Aunt Leah

Goes well with Breton Beans, or with pierogi.

Ingredients	Step
10.5 oz. / 2 c. sauerkraut	Drain and finely chop.
¾ c. milk 1 egg 1 t. caraway 1 t. savory (opt.)	Mix wet ingredients together in a large bowl.
oil	Start heating oil in a skillet
1 c. (130 g.) flour	Add flour to the wet ingredients. Then add chopped sauerkraut.
	When a drop of batter sizzles in the hot oil, pour by 2T-fuls and spread to 3-inch rounds. Cook until the bottoms brown (about 5 minutes), then turn and repeat. Drain on paper towels. Serve hot.

Source: Michal Korkosz (Fresh from Poland)

Serves six as a condiment.

Ingredients	Step
2 c. cranberries ½ c. orange juice ¼ c. white sugar ¼ c. brown sugar ¼ t. cloves ¼ t. ginger	Combine in a saucepan. Simmer, stirring (uncovered), until berries have burst.

Source: Rebecca from New Orleans from college

It's nice to bake one extra potato so they can be extra-stuffed, and as insurance against breaking one of the shells.

Ingredients	Step
	Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
4 baking potatoes, scrubbed	Bake until tender -- ideally in oven so the skins firm up, but microwave is fine too. If in microwave and they are normal sized, stab all over with a fork then microwave it for 5 minutes, flip, and 5 minutes more.
½ c. milk 1 t. Dijon ¾ c. cheddar, grated ½ t. salt ¼ t. pepper	Cut potatoes in half lengthwise. Scoop out the flesh. Mash it all together. Maybe whip until light & fluffy. Spoon into reserved skins.
¼ c. cheddar, grated	Sprinkle.
	Bake another 10 minutes at 400 degrees, to brown the tops.

source: my grandma