Multi-grain porridge as comfort food

There are times when you just need some warm comfort food. We like ours to be of the whole grain variety … utilizing a lot of different grains in order to get as many of the micronutrients as possible ( the whole being greater than the sum of the parts - literally ), mostly choosing those that don’t enrich the Big Agribusiness/Wheat/Corn corporate pockets.

Choosing these other grains also puts less of a burden on the environment and are more sustainable. When your food comes from one hybrid strain of something, the chemicals come in - in an all too often failed attempt to replace all that nature originally gave it.

Tonight was one of those comfort food nights when we just wanted it keep it simple, but a bowl of cold cereal wasn’t quite right either.

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Barley Butterscotch Cookie recipe

I don’t like butterscotch much. Yes, that’s totally from the fringes of the known universe - being almost as nuts as not liking chocolate. Butterscotch is one of those too sweet things that just don’t make it for me, though. That aside, I’ve got to try this recipe as soon as things settle down around here.

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