Breakfast

I was just listening to a blurb on NPR about Iceland. Seems people are going back to the old ways.
Everyone is eating oatmeal again, where before it was almost shunned.
In fact it is hard to keep it on the shelves as everyone is buying it. It is nutritional, hot, and stays with you awhile during the day.

We used to eat alot of oatmeal when I was young. It was cheap and could feed all eight of us kids.
I especially liked it with brown sugar, but my mother always made it with raisins too. ewwww
I hate cooked raisins. No raisin pies, no raisin cookies, no raisins in baked goods. Yet every
morning there would be my bowl, full of bloated cooked raisins. (They reminded me of those awful huge ticks that dogs get if you miss even one of the little buggers.)

I also loved Farina/Cream of wheat. With brown sugar of course. But my all time favorite was
cooked hot wild rice with cream and sugar. With a little dab of butter, there is nothing like it with it's nutty taste. Of course in those days, we went to the farm to get milk. And would let the cream rise to the top. mmmmmm. We also harvested the wild rice ourselves. At least my brothers did. I remember having to clean the unsavory bits out of the rice.

Now days, I am partial to cheerios, grape nuts and some of those kids cereals. I know. bad bad.
But at least I eat breakfast. And not to forget, the best of all of these is my husband's pancakes with real old time maple syrup. The stuff that is boiled over an open fire in a big kettle. You can taste the smoke and it is thick and very dark.

Poor people food at that time. Now it costs an arm and a leg to get the real stuff.

Anyway, it is nice to hear that others eat oatmeal like we do. I just hope they don't put raisins in it.