A breakfast equation

[mangosteen]

Okay. I'm a big fat hypocrite. I have said any number of times in the past that I actively try to avoid doing "here's what I had for breakfast" blogging, but well.... I just cooked up my first batch of steel-cut oats for the season.

  Steel-cut oats
+ yogurt-based butter analogue
+ salt
+ 1.5 slices of American Cheese
--------------------------------
= A world of yum.

The snow outside just adds to the essential warmth of the experience.
Yay.

Comments

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

If you secretly do like blogging about food, check out the food_porn community. It's lots of fun.

[mangosteen]

Hm. It's not about food blogging. It's something more general.

I see no reason to post about the daily comings and goings of my life... it's just not all that different from any other middle-class geek's to be interesting. So, when I say "breakfast blogging", I typically mean "blogging the minutia of my daily routine", which I find to be generally pointless. This also to extends to anything which might be part of my normal daily routine, like cooking breakfast. The reason I made the exception is because it was something I haven't done in a very long time.

By the by, hearing you sing "Somewhere That's Green" was wonderful. The last time I heard anyone sing it was in the movie, where (combined with the imagery), it was played exclusively for laughs. Hearing the lyrics sung without the imagery made the song almost... spooky, in a way. Suburbia becomes this completely synthetic escapist fantasy, where everything is manufactured and perfect. Fascinating stuff.

[awfief.livejournal.com]

actually, this post was more of a bits_of_bliss kind of post.

[mangosteen]

"[Bad username in LJ Tag]"?

[awfief.livejournal.com]

bits_of_bliss

aka

http://www.livejournal.com/community/bits_of_bliss/

[muffyjo]

I dunno, I was just reading the Staxmas invite and saw potato Latkes and thought...Mmm, I could eat those for breakfast! Of course, i don't know how to make them so I'd have to go buy them. Then I'd have to post about the adventure so I would, too, have to write what I ate for breakfast. So even though you would be a hypocrite, you wouldn't be alone. :)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I ate potato latkes for breakfast just yesterday! Local Jewish-deli place does them as a breakfast side order. :)

My first thought

[lifecollage.livejournal.com]

Local Jewish-deli place

"Shabbat shalom, y'all!"

Obvious, obligatory, and not entirely correct. I need more coffee.

Re: My first thought

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Hee! Pretty much. They serve both matzoh brei and grits. :)

[muffyjo]

Mmmm...I'm so jealous!

[danger-chick.livejournal.com]

oatmeal and cheese?

Granted, I can't eat oatmeal, so I wouldn't really know.

[dsrtao]

I do eat oatmeal... and this weirds me out. Cheese? On oatmeal? NEVER!

Oatmeal is best with a little butter and fresh maple syrup.
It's pretty good with butter, brown sugar and some nuts.
I'll happily eat it with a tiny smidge of milk and some sugar and cinnamon.
Cheese? No.

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

But American pasteurized process cheese food isn't cheese. He's all good.

[mangosteen]

Did I say Kraft Singles(tm)? No.

That being said, cheddar is much preferred for this application, but I didn't have any at the time.

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

No, but you did say American Cheese. I know of no other translation.

[lifecollage.livejournal.com]

Land O Lakes white American cheese, from the deli counter, to be specific. Boar's Head also makes an acceptable version, but I like LOL more. The key is the deli counter.

[lifecollage.livejournal.com]

There. Is. No. Cheese. "Food." In. My. House.

All cheese. All the time. Like the Brits, I do not fuck around with my dairy.

[mangosteen]

I can take my oatmeal both sweet and savory.
So there.
Neener.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Not fair. I have no snow. And probably just granola or toast.

[doeeyedbunny.livejournal.com]

You here in nyc? 'Cause it ain't snow, it's slush.

[mangosteen]

I don't get into NYC until Wednesday night.
A post will be forthcoming momentarily, with details.

[gingicat]

Personally, I liked the steel-cut oatmeal I had this morning, with cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, raisins, dried cranberries, maple syrup, vanilla, and milk.

[coraline]

you put american "cheese"

...in your steel-cut oats???


ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew !

[lizzielizzie.livejournal.com]

At least he didn't put bits of real Americans in his steel-cut oats....

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

"Steel-cut Americans in cheese-cut oats."