Just Put Oats In It...

A few days ago, Fred was doing an inventory of the fridge and dragged out the covered glass bowl of cream cheese icing that had been rejected by our daughter as not stiff enough to crown her batch of cupcakes.

Fred has a longstanding tradition of mixing oats in with everything - or adding anything to oats - and putting it in the microwave. I used to complain about having my carefully saved leftover vegetable soup thickened with oats and a splash of umeboshi vinegar and fried in leftover chicken fat.

I kept trying to explain to him that I liked my oats sweet, not savoury... but recently we've come to an agreement -