MMario -- there's a food company that my aide introduced me to, called Kashi. they put out a mixed grain pilaf of [TM] "Seven whole grains* and sesame"

Oats,
Brown rice,
Rye
Hard red wheat
Triticale (a wheat-rye hybrid)
Buckwheat
Barley,
Sesame Seeds.

The straight pilaf blend is kind of hard to find in stores, but they also make a "crispies" breakfast cereal version, and frozen dinners with that pilaf as a base.

To pull this back from the thread creep:

Last night, I cooked up my barley (keep wanting to type "Barely") in the same water I soaked it in, rather than draining it and using fresh. It turned out more porridge-like and less pilaf-like, which, once I thought about the mechanics of starch dissolved in cooking water, made perfect sense.

And as I type this, I'm wondering if I could figure out a way to cook up a single serving of this porridge in the microwave, for breakfast. ...Because when I'm newly awake and hungry, I'm not one for decision-making and multi-step processes.

Hm.

*Though they include buckwheat as a grain, and actually buckwheat is not a grain, but a member of the spinach family -- at least, that's what it's counted as now. ...now that we're starting to study plant genomes, botanical families are getting rearranged like mad.