Apples, Cinnamon, Raisins, and Hazlenuts (Filberts)

This is a little twist on the classic.

When I make it, I like to add a few raisins, and some hazlenuts ("filberts" if you are from the Pacific Northwest) for protein.

- put the dry oatmeal into a bowl, add a pinch of salt (according to recipe).
- Add the cinnamon and mix (it's harder to mix the cinnamon once there is water)
- To prepare the apple (one per cup of oatmeal),peel it and cut it into chunks right above the oatmeal (like you would bananas into cereal).
- sprinkle with a few raisins (not too many, they are a hint, not the main flavor)
- add a few hazlenuts
- add just less than twice as much water as oatmeal (about 175% as much)
- put it in a bowl in the microwave for 3 minutes on high.
- Top with brown (or maple) sugar

Alternatively, if you have a food dehydrator and time, buy an apple-peeler, slice up those apples and dehydrate them in advance. Adding dehydrated apple slices tastes just as good and there is even a little more texture to the apple than when you add raw ones. It's good!