Oooooooooatmeal.

[mrissa]

Best! Oatmeal! EVER!

I mean, not in terms of quality; that, despite my dislike of total orderings, would be the stuff I had at Lucille's in Fort Collins on the move back here. Man. Tastiest oatmeal ever, there. If you're at all in the neighborhood of Fort Collins, CO, go eat beignets and oatmeal and anything else there, because it is all so very good. The coffee has chicory in it, which may be an incentive for you or a warning. Me, I like chicory.

But anyway. This morning's oatmeal was the most appreciated oatmeal ever, because it was not yogurt. When I hear people talking about how they need to start their day with protein and not carbs, I cannot help but believe them that that is how their bodies work, but it certainly isn't how my body works.

Also: I woke up in pain, but I didn't wake up from pain. And that, my dears, is what we call progress.

Tonight I am going to have Kraft dinner for dinner. I am really excited about the Kraft dinner. It's the most exciting thing I plan for today, although you should all feel free to give me more exciting news, of course.

Comments

[talimena.livejournal.com]

Yay for oatmeal and Kraft dinner! And double yay for progress.

I have no exciting news to give, but I do have a satisfying plan of reading a book about Virgil for class and knitting and running a few errands.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That does sound satisfying!

[talimena.livejournal.com]

And even better now that, thanks to your reminder, I'm having oatmeal!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oatmeal for everybody! Everybody who wants it, anyway.

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

Ha! Last night, walking home in the cold with a too-light jacket, I said: "Oh! It's oatmeal season! That's so exciting!" and T. said, "Oatmeal is exciting?" and I said, "IT'S NOT YOGURT!" He thought I was a freak.

My problem is that I only like steel-cut oats and they seem to take 45 minutes to cook and the only way that timing works is if I make them in the rice cooker on a timer, but for one person that's kind of iffy. (In terms of whether it burns; I don't care about the philosophy.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I like steel-cut oats, but my love of oatmeal extends down into the lower orders as well.

My oatmeal smelled so good that timprov went and made himself some, too.

[redbird]

I'm another steel-cut-oat person. They work okay when I cook them just for myself, in a pan on the stove. I follow the directions on the McCann's package, that being the only brand of steel-cut oats I can get easily around here, surrounded usually by an assortment of quick-cooking oatmeals that don't taste as good. Including, alas, quick-cooking steel-cut oats, seven minutes for an inferior product instead of the half hour after boiling that the real thing wants.

Oatmeal is, thus, not on the breakfast list very often: it's on the lunch/weekend brunch list. Well, last winter when I was working 23 stories above a railroad terminal, I sometimes got oatmeal for breakfast either at one of the places in the terminal, or at the company cafeteria (but they tended to be out of it by the time I arrived, because a lot of people arrived at 8 or earlier, and they made one big batch of oatmeal every morning).

WooT!

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Glad you're feeling better!

I've done four wisdom teeth with local. All went fine except one which didn't. The didn't wasn't fun... However, don't be afraid to hit your dentist up for more pain pills if it keeps hurting. My last two took quite a while to stop, and a sore mouth is right up there with sore feet for making a person slightly cranky. (Of course, it doesn't take much to make me cranky...) But, it does get better. Now, the oatmeal, I can't help much with that... more of a cream o' rice or wheat fan...

Re: WooT!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I think it's going to turn out that they gave me more pain pills than I need rather than fewer -- I haven't been doubling up the Vicodin and the SuperAdvil the way they say I can, so I have plenty of drugs left. It's really only been a problem at the end of each dose.

I like what I called Screaming Wheat when I was little. I especially like Coco-Wheats, which some people find appalling. But I'm afraid the wrong kind of grains will get stuck in the incision right now, so I'm avoiding farina, rice, and polenta for another day or two.

Re: WooT!

[intrepida.livejournal.com]

Coco Wheats were always a special treat in my house. Happiness is comfortng breakfast food.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Do! Even if you can't make it there for breakfast, Jen The World's Best Lab Partner says they're good for other meals.

[retrobabble.livejournal.com]

Durnit. Now I want oatmeal. With brown sugar and milk.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's good that way....

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Counting the Barenaked Ladies song "If I Had $1,000,000" this makes the second time I have ever heard of "Kraft dinner."

What is it?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Southern for it is "mac and cheese."

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Huh; "macaroni and cheese" is the name in Joy of Cooking, Consumer Reports, etc. "Kraft dinner" I've only heard in the last decade or two; but then I didn't associate with people who used packaged foods much at first.

I certainly don't associate either form of the name with the South.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

This is the same kind of South as Iowa is.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And one of the reasons I use "Kraft dinner" when I mean "Kraft dinner" is that radioactive cheese powder is not, in fact, the same stuff as what you make with a sauce from the Joy of Cooking.

[wednesday]

You understand Kraft Dinner. I must friend you now, instead of being all shy and lurky. And lo, it is done.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hi, and welcome!

[songwind.livejournal.com]

and of course, now they do have prewrapped bacon. :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I blame BNL.

[ckd]

I only have five versions of that song in my iTunes library.

(Album version from Gordon; the Yellow Tape version from the Shoe Box EP; three live versions, from Rock Spectacle, the Denver "Au Naturale Live" album, and the first WXRV "Live from the River Music Hall".)

[ckd]

The Denver disc was sold in some indie record stores, including the mini-chain Newbury Comics stores around Boston. (I live in Cambridge, and haven't even changed planes in Denver in years.)

One of these days I'll probably order some of the online-only discs.