LongleafSheep: More Than Oatmeal

I was asked about a recipe for the oatmeal dish that I prepare pretty much everyday, here it is:

More Than Oatmeal

This dish is more than just oatmeal and is good for breakfast, lunch, or a snack. The recipe makes two robust breakfast servings, or can be divided into a breakfast portion and two snack portions for later in the day. It is not quick to make, so if one needs to eat and get off to work, making it the night before and eating it cold from the refrigerator works best. It tastes good whether eating it cold, warm, or hot. If a particular ingredient is missing, no matter, add something else, or go without. After all, this dish is basically just oatmeal with a bunch of other nutritious stuff added to it. If you think oatmeal needs to be creamy, then think of this as something else, this stuff is not creamy.

From a 14 ounce package of frozen greens (mustard greens, kale, turnip greens, collard greens), pour 5 to 6 ounces into a bowl, cover and microwave on high for 6 minutes.

While the greens are cooking, in a 1¾ quart Pyrex bowl place:

1 cup oatmeal (“Old Fashioned” rolled oats).
Handful (~ ¼ cup) of raisins.
5 or 6 prunes, cut in pieces.
3 tablespoons flaxseed meal (or two tablespoons per person eating the dish).
¼ teaspoon ground turmeric (or ¼ teaspoon per person eating the dish).
½ teaspoon ground rosemary leaves (or ½ teaspoon per person eating the dish).
3 or 4 mushrooms, washed and cut in pieces.
2 cups water.

Stir all together and microwave uncovered on high for 6 minutes.

While the oatmeal is cooking, prepare:

15 - 16 ounce can of red beans or black beans, drained and rinsed to remove some of the other non-bean ingredients. Add to bowl of cooked greens. (If I have a pot of beans previously cooked, I ladle out a heaping cup of beans without rinsing.)
1¼ cups frozen blueberries (sometimes rinsed to remove twigs and trash).
1½ cups “Tropical Fruit Salad” from Sam’s Club (or pineapple chunks, or any other kind of cold wet fruit).

After retrieving the oatmeal mixture from the microwave, stir in the greens and beans and microwave at 60% for 4 minutes.

Then stir in the frozen blueberries and divide into the various portions to be eaten. To the top of each portion, divide the tropical fruit.

Chill in the refrigerator until hungry.

Ingredients, today I was out of mushrooms.