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Oatmeal. Since breakfast is my fav …

Comment posted on Apron by muggins

Oatmeal. Since breakfast is my fav meal, and I don’t always have eggs on hand to make a veggie ‘n’ cheese omlette,
My fall back plan is to make oatmeal. The basic strategy is to have the ingredients in the cupboard, in quantity, bought when there’s a sale at the super market, to have on stand-by status. So, here is the recipe:

Put water and salt into a pot, measured according to the directions on the box of oats…maybe add 10% more water, you’ll learn to adjust. Dump a handful of raisons per person, quantity is variable ( I prefer a big handful ) into the water and then bring to a boil. This allows the raisons to plump up and soften. Then open a can of either peaches or pears, take out roughly half of the fruit and chop up very fine and add it to the pot. Measure out the oats into a bowl.
Then into that same bowl, add powdered goats milk ( I purchase Meyenberg Powdered Goats Milk, but regular cows milk powder will do…and if you have normal milk in the fridge, use it instead of water in the first step) and with a spoon, mix the oats and milk powder together, making sure to crush all the lumps in the milk powder. Then gradually stir in this mixture into the pot. Immediately reduce heat when it resumes boiling again, and stir occasionally for about 5 minutes. Serve in bowls, sweeten with honey or brown sugar, and garnish with a pile of croutons made from the heals of a sourdough loaf. Bon appetit.

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Tissue + Sneeze
Patty Loveless like water into wine
COP15
The earth warms and cools naturally without the help of pollution. Whether or not the computer models are sufficient to predict the future can be debated. Pollution might affect the weather, but I fall short of believing that it is a controlling factor. Yet, despite my agnosticism, I’ve always been against pollution. So, I’m cool with reducing pollution. The cap ‘n’ trade tactic is a loser, unfortunately. It won’t work because China and India and the rest of the 3rd world aren’t on the program. If it won’t work, do something else (That’s my politics in a nutshell: Pragmatism). The reason why polluting technology is used is because it’s the cheapest. Cap ‘n’ trade comes with a price, and maybe that money would be better invested in R & D, to develop technology that is non-polluting and cheaper than present technology.
Those Limeys! Plus a little Gymkhana
I’ve heard that coffee promotes fat. I’m not sure about that. Could be, but if you drink coffee, it should be taken black, no sugar. It’s an acquired taste, but it doesn’t take long to acquire it.
Green tea is the preferred drink. It has a similar drug effect that coffee has, but seems to be mellower. Green tea is consumed by itself, no sugar or fat content.

Avoid tap water. As a plumber/pipefitter, I know why you should avoid tap water, but that’s a long story.

Milk is pushed by doctors because they see the protein, calcium and vitamin D as being essential. I wonder if supplements are a better way to get those nutrients. Then again, I wonder if pills work.

Having watched that lesson on fructose, I’ll be reading the ingredients of bread at the supermarket. And maybe I’ll cut down the beer consumption a little, too.
Tissue + Sneeze
I sneezed last night.
ah…ah…ah-CHOO – HOO
My entire body quaked, my hat shot straight in the air, and I think my heart stopped. I’m sure it frightened the neighbors.
Those Limeys! Plus a little Gymkhana
@pat haskett
“My Boy Lollipop” hit the charts in 1964, even though it appears she lip-synced her hit, there, in that clip in 1973….in her scrumptious, little white jump suit. The thing is, in 1964, that was the depth of pop music, and into that exploded the Beatles to bring back the driving
down beat, the spirit of Chuck Berry, and the “rock group”.