Summer Oatmeal

Directions

1. 1
   In a saucepan, mix the fruit with the sugar and simmer gently.
2. 2
   Simmer only until the fruit is soft and the sugar is dissolved. Remove from the burner and cool until the fruit is body temperature or less.
3. 3
   In a bowl that you can store in the refrigerator, mix yogurt and uncooked oatmeal.
4. 4
   After the fruit has cooled sufficiently, stir it gently into the oatmeal-yogurt mixture.
5. 5
   Refrigerate this for at least 7 hours.
6. 6
   For fruit, we use frozen blueberries, blackberries, and peaches. I do not recommend pineapple or other highly acidic fruit. We also are not fond of strawberries in this.
7. 7
   We use homemade yogurt cultured from a very old Caspian sea culture (it's a bit runnier than standard yogurts).
8. 8
   For sweetener, I use either brown sugar, maple syrup, honey, or cactus honey powder.
9. 9
   Add spices and dried fruit or nuts as desired.
10. 10
    I also will use a roasted whole seven-grain cereal in this recipe, but it requires closer to 12 hours to soften the grains.