My Recipe for Overnight Oatmeal

I love to wake up to a hot breakfast, unfortunately I lack a servant! You can find a lot of Crockpot Oatmeal recipies on the internet. I took a little of this and a little of that from 4 recipies and came up with a recipe of my own. Although it didn't waft aroma throughout the house in the morning, like some recipies do, the taste was good! I doubled the recipe to make a larger crockpot full. The ingredients did swell up a little, but didn't over-flow the crockpot. We dished it up and ate it with a bit extra brown sugar and milk. Yummy! My recipe, (which is for twice the amount for a smaller batch), was as follows; Into a 2 cup measuring cup place 1 cup of raisins. Fill the measuring cup, (in which the raisins rest), to the 2 cup mark with water. Let this soak while you put the rest of the ingredients together. Stir together; 4 apples peeled, or not peeled, cut into chunks, or slices if desidered. 1 TB Cinnamon 1 tsp. nutmeg 2/3 cup of brown sugar 2 tsp. vanilla 1 tsp of salt Place this into a greased crockpot. Add 2 cups of Old Fasioned Oatmeal, (Quick or instant oats will over-cook to mush) 2 cups of Steel Cut Oats, (Or 2 cups additional Old Fashioned Oatmeal) 4 TB butter / margarine cut up and added. Stir. 2/3 cups of broken walnut meats 2 cups of milk 4 1/3 cups of water Add the raisins and the water, (which will probably measure 1 2/3 cups. (Don't worry if it doesn't) Mix all together in the crockpot and heat on low in the crockpot for approximately 7 hrs. If it stays on low for about 10 - 11 hrs. it will begin to dry out around the sides of the crockpot. Enjoy! Many recipies do not call for the apples, walnuts, raisins, butter, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, or salt, so do your own thing!