Anyway the point is....it was NICE!
For breakfast Mom made oatmeal. I grew up eating oatmeal. Every morning my mom would bring a bowl into my bedroom and put it on my bedside table. The smell of it, the warm stolen bites while hiding under the covers......ok, I would eat it in bed. I know it sounds spoiled and ridiculous but I have never been a morning person. Breakfast on my bedside table was one of the only ways my mom could coax me out of bed. It made it not a fight. My mom has always been a 'pick your battles type'. It was always rolled oats with raisins and cinnamon, a pat of butter, brown sugar and milk. And I LOVED it. Even now it gives me the warm fuzzies of childhood memories when I eat it like that.
I have to add that I still have that bedside table, I use it now. It is a beautiful old washstand. I refinished it a few years ago and had to use a power sander to get the dried petrified oatmeal out of the finish pieces.
We eat a lot of oatmeal around here too(not in bed). I sometimes serve it like my mom did but more often than not I now make it my own. That and because we are essentially a sugar free house (I just bought white sugar to make the Kombucha. We didn't have any sugar in the house) I have had to find other ways to make memorable. I don't just use rolled oats, I love the chewy nutty texture of Scottish oats, if I have the time I love 'steel cut' or Irish oats and have yet to try cooking groats although I did buy some.
Here is one morning....

It should look a bit like this
On this morning we ate our oats with a small pat of coconut oil (one that has a coconutty flavour) a couple of tablespoons of 'nut dirt' (I explain here) and coconut milk.

I am still not totally sold on this coconut milk. It is rich and creamy like you think milk should be but I find it completely devoid of flavour. It is just kinda thick and vaguely salty.......stop it! I know what you are thinking and this is a PG rated blog!! SHESH!
We are currently on the hunt for a 'milk' we like. We do not drink milk in this house but we do use it for cereal etc. I would use cow's milk if I could get it raw (as far as I know impossible in the city), we have used basmati rice milk but with the arsenic levels as they are I would like to avoid it and almond milk has it's draw backs too although we have no history of nut allergies in our families. If you have any suggestions or a brand you love please let me know. But I digress......
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Hey Christopher, this picture is better eh? |
3 comments:
I am a milk lover. But my son is allergic...sooooo... we've tried ALL kinds of alternatives. I personally love vanilla hemp milk for substituting real milk in cereals or whatnot. I also used it the other day for making french toast and MMMM... it was great! You'd never guess it hadn't been made with "real" milk. Tho - in fairness, I've never tried to make french toast with any other weird milk, so who knows! :)
You know I haven't tried Hemp milk. I moved towards coconut milk after reading about the nutritional benefits of the different 'weird' milks. Apparently coconut milk rates the highest with raw Cows milk and almond a close second. No one mentioned Hemp (which doesn't mean it isn't any good).....Almond makes nice french toast and pancakes....the nutty flavour is a nice addition. The coconut milk is weird. I am wondering if the vanilla is better (we have been buying the 'original') or if I 'watered' it down with some coconut water which has a bit of flavour and might make it taste better
I have an idea. Why don't you do what my boyfriend does, and mix a little coconutty, with a little almondy.
(Consider this the one and only time I will wade into a conversation with you hippies.)
And yes, the picture didn't make me want to barf, so it's good. ;-)
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