A hearty and healthy hot breakfast cereal topped with wild berries, honey, and meyer lemon salt. Serves four as a light breakfast or two hungry hikers! Look out for bears, Goldilocks, because this porridge is juuuuust right!
1 ½cupsold-fashioned rolled oats(cold-soak if you're camping, or fine, use quick-cook if you must)
2cupswater
1cupmilkcan sub soy or nut milk
2tbspbutterKerrygold or grass-fed if you can get it
3tbspbrown sugar
Garnish
½cupwild blueberries(frozen and thawed)
½cupserviceberries(frozen and thawed, sub other berries if needed)
4tbspblueberry blossom honeycan sub. other local honey
¼cuphalf and half or whole milk
1pinchmeyer lemon salt(sub salt + pinch of grated lemon zest)
4patsbutterKerrygold or grass-fed if you can get it
Instructions
Combine oats, water, milk, butter, and salt in a 2 quart saucepan.
Stir over medium heat and bring to a simmer, watching to make sure it doesn't boil over. Stir often so it doesn't scorch. Add brown sugar and mix well.
Divide the porridge into bowls and top with berries, honey, and butter. Pour half and half or milk around the edge of the bowl and sprinkle with the citrus salt to taste.