Breakfast

For those of you who love it when I blog about my breakfast (which I think is only Trina, and she's probably just being nice...)

So I went to make my oatmeal this morning, and had a very unpleasant surprise: no oatmeal! I knew this. As soon as I picked up the very light box, I remembered that I'd used essentially all my oatmeal last week. But I was lazy last night and didn't go to the store, so I have no more oatmeal.

Now, my normal oatmeal recipe, which I make pretty much 5 or 6 days a week, is equal parts oats (NOT quick-cook; real oats), a rye cereal that I discovered, dried fruit, and walnuts. Yum.

But what to do when there's no oats? The rye cereal alone has a very different consistency, and I didn't think I'd like a whole bowl of it. I did have a box of quick-cook oats, but I only use those for baking (sorry, but quick cook oats are the reason many people think they don't like oatmeal; they have the consistency of wallpaper paste).

There were a few lonely little oats in the very, very bottom of the oatmeal box, so I measured them out -- it was about half of what I normally put in, but I figured it would be a start. I put in the normal amount of rye, my fruit and my nuts, and then decided to put some cornmeal in. I've used cornmeal before just to do something different; it's good, but you have to be careful -- too much cornmeal or too little milk and you wind up with a corn cake, not hot cereal.

So, today's concoction was oats, rye, corn, with dried fruit and nuts.

It was good, but I missed my oatmeal. I could see adding the corn occasionally to do something different, but it just can't take the place of the oats.

There were, actually,