Kitchen

[Soushi24]

AFTERNOON,

Just receive this recipe in an email, make it for DH

Oatmeal Cake

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 50 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour, 10 minutes

Yield: 16 servings

This old-fashioned oatmeal cake might not win any beauty awards, but one bite and it will instantly become a family favorite!

Ingredients

Cake

• 1 1/2 cups hot water
• 1 cup old fashioned oatmeal
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Topping

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon milk
• 1 cup coconut

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Spray a 9x13-inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.
2. Combine the water and the oatmeal and allow to soak while you prepare the remaining ingredients.
3. Cream together the butter and both sugars. Beat in the eggs. In another bowl, mix together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt. Add half of the flour to the creamed butter mixture, followed by the soaked oatmeal, then the remaining flour, mixing between additions. Pour into the prepared baking dish and bake until set, 35-40 minutes.
4. For the topping, turn the oven to broil. Combine the butter, brown sugar and milk in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, while stirring. Boil for one minute. Stir in the coconut. Pour over the cake, spread, then broil for one minute.

[Soushi24]

well, that turned out big!

[Winifred]

Sure looks good Soushi. Preds always enjoy your pix. Brewhaha, stay cool.

Today all I have heard on the news is stay in, stay in and stay in. Guess that hurricane off Baja is stirring up some massive humidity. It was horrible yesterday and worse during the night - that is so rare but happening more and more.

More and more yards are nothing but dirt and weeds - that is so strange for out here but that is what is happening. Some of the homes are gorgeous showcases and their yards are completely gone. It's only going to get worse with the new RULES the water company has set up. Absolutely unreal. Feel so bad about no water in the bird bath - those poor critters are doing without as it is and to add bird baths to it, what can I say. Interesting in that I see a few jerks still around - saw two people watering their lawns full blast this time of day - that is ludicrous. Also saw a couple places where water had run off into the street - they had washed their vehicles in their paved driveway. My goodness.

Gotta run - have a good day and have no clue what I will have for dinner. Last night we had a delicious roast cooked with onions of course, collards and corn on the cob - very tasty.

Again, have a great day!

[vabreeze]

Hey Winifred, Could you not give the birds potable water that you used to prepare something like drained pasta water, water from bolied eggs, water collected from 'rinsing' a food condiment off of your hand for instance or water run over fruit like an apple, grapes, or collard greens used to cleanse these things? Poor feathered friends but we do know that God takes care of them, too. One year here when we we couldn't squeeze water out of the clouds, the squirrels took to eating tomatoes off the vines to get their water. I wonder would birds peck at tomaotes to quench their thirst? Oh, how about a watermelon rind-- lots of liquid left after eating them!

[vabreeze]

Soushi24, that oatmeal cake looks soooooooooooo yummy! I'm saving the recipe for future use..

[Preds]

[Winifred]

vabreeze, I must be slipping. NEVER thought of any of the ideas you suggested. I always CLEANED their birdbath super well and put fresh water in every day. LOL. Guess, however, I need to do some thinking about what kind of dirty water I put in there.

Super humid - just miserable. It has been a difficult day - and tomorrow the electric company says to cut WAY BACK between 2 and 6 p.m. Hottest time of day. Not sure how well I will do on that. Like I keep saying, California is no longer the Golden State.

[Preds]

[Soushi24]

Morning all,

Just beautiful yesterday and today looks like another repeat. Weather is outstanding. DH off to the golf course. I am meeting daughter for lunch and a birthday gift. Today is her birthday.

Yesterday we served coffee at church. Love doing this. See so many people that I have missed. We were swamped. The first two services I couldn't serve coffee fast enough. There was always a line. We talked later and think it is due to summer coming to a close, school starting, and vacations have ended. Great to see so many for all three services.

No cooking yesterday. Had our usual Sunday chicken dinner out. I have the bones of a recent rotisserie chicken cooking in the crockpot. Will strain it and use the broth. Making the Olive Garden copy-cat recipe of soup for my little craft group dinner tomorrow night.

Bought almost 6 lbs of hamburger at Costco's and I packaged it into 1 lb packages. It was on sale and is very good quality. Paid less than $3 a lb for it and that is good for around here.

Okay all, time for more coffee. Enjoy the day.

[Winifred]

Beautiful weather Soushi? What on earth is that. Sigh!! At any rate yesterday and today several areas within minutes of me have had mud slides and flash floods but perhaps 5 drops fell here. That is NOT FAIR. I certainly do not wish any harm on anyone but would have loved to have had some of that moisture. Humidity is not as bad today as what it has been but it still is pretty bad. Ran some errands as our illustrious electric company also said to CUT BACK between 2 and 6 p.m. today. Always something with these utility companies. By running errands I was not using electricity in the house - much that is - but of course wear and tear on the car and gas made up for it. LOL.

Had veggies in the Wok AND pork chops cut up in the slow cooker - with onions of course. Poured barbeque sauce on them. Really good.

Went to Mentone today and we ate at the Mill House - an ancient OLD western type place. wooden floors and stone floors - everything wood - have been going there - not often in recent years however - since I came to California in the 60s. So that was lunch/dinner for all of us. Then to Foods 4 Loss for some green beans and other items. Did not buy any roasts as they were horribly expensive - am hoping they are on sale some Wednesday - say a prayer. Am almost out of roast - I also cut them up for stew meat. With their sale price it is half the price of regular stew meat.

Hope all have a great day.