Toasted Oat Bread

Recently, in the middle of the night, I was thinking back to the farm I lived on in Oregon and about the crops we grew there. In Oregon, you can fill your personal horn of plenty better than anywhere in America. As I lay in bed running through my mental inventory of those fields and orchards, I saw stands of barley, rye, wheat, and oats—all of them grown in rotation to keep the soil healthy. I was lost in a daydream of golden grains in the fields when something about the oats made me pause