Oatmeal Reverie

Last night was rough: an email came in late from Edie's school that due to a bed bug situation, the school will be shut down for two weeks...ugh, parent problems. MAP & D came over with gifts from abroad and helped entertain Edie while B & Mil slept. I was supposed to go to a party with the ice cream cake, but me and Mil stayed behind and tried to sleep. TV in the evening, sleep around 11.

TODAY'S COOKING:
Steel cut oatmeal: For expediency, I cooked it up in the microwave, with a dash of salt, butter and brown sugar. Wow, I forgot what a perfect food that oatmeal can be, especially when it's seasoned and flavored correctly -- it tastes healthy, in a way that makes you want to be healthy every day of the week. Though salt, butter and brown sugar is considered "sinful", the oaty flavor is so complimentary to them with only a slight nudge. Why the packets of flavored oatmeal over salt, over sweeten and add creepy shiz to approximate what I just did in the microwave bowl astounds me -- I know why they do it (hello, capitalism!) but it's still amazing people eat it and think, "this is oatmeal."

I put on 4 cups of steel cut with 12 cups of boiling water, table spoon of salt, 1 oz of brown sugar and 1/4 cup of butter, turned off the heat and going to let it sit overnight. Tomorrow, with a minute reheat in the zapper (vs. the 8 minutes it took this morning), I'm gonna have perfect oatmeal on tap for the next few weeks.

AM SNACK: 8:30am, iced green tea, chocolate covered espresso beans


BREAKFAST: 9:30am, steel cut oatmeal, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 12:30pm, snippet of knish, a few whole wheat crackers


LUNCH: 3:15pm, large green salad, large chocolate coin, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 6pm, orechiette pasta with spinach, shrimp and asiago cheese, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 7:30pm, mint ice cream, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5