Always trying to come up with different ways to eat my daily breakfast of oatmeal. I had some Medjool Dates (the nice, big, fat, juicy ones). I remembered my grandmother making those filled sugar cookies. She filled them with cooked date filling or sometimes cooked raisin filling, so....

RAISIN DATE OATMEAL (for one)

1/3 cup old-fashioned oatmeal
2/3 (or a bit more) water
1-2 Medjool dates
10 or so raisins

Place ingredients in a micro-wave safe bowl.(Make sure it's kinda deep, oatmeal tends to "crawl" up and out sometimes!)Microwave at 50% for 5 1/2 minutes. Stir after 4 minutes or so. Mixture will be VERY hot! Add milk if desired. Yum! Tummy warming!