In middle school my dad taught me how to cook from scratch. I still retain this knowledge, but the skill is rusty. Most of the food that I have prepared in the last 4 years has been with a microwave (not all but most).
Today I did something that I had not done in a long time. I made breakfast. I don't mean milk and cereal. I don't mean instant oatmeal. I mean stove, pot, boiling my oats, waiting for it to thicken, MADE breakfast. Unfortunately, I barely over salted my oatmeal. It wasn't actually a bad taste, it was just a LITTLE too strong for what I wanted.
In Ukraine, peanut butter is a rarity. It is apparently hard to get, and if a store can get it they don't give it up for anything less than a small fortune. The scarcity of peanut butter meant that I had to add something else to my oats than I usually do. I chose a banana, but the quality of the boiled oats FAR out weighed the quality of instant oats.
Bottom line:
The thing that I learned today by boiling my oatmeal is that there is a better way to eat breakfast.
Did you have to light the stove(gas?) with a match?
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