Journal entries in 'Dear Diary' for April, 2007

Enthused by Meg's suggestion, I bought a tin of McCann's Steel-Cut Oatmeal and determined to try making some oatmeal on the stovetop. The instructions on the tin call for sprinkling 1 cup of oatmeal into 4 cups of briskly boiling water, but I wanted to try it with milk. I also didn't need to make four servings, so I halved the recipe and set 2 cups of milk in a pot on high heat to boil. In less than a minute, the milk poofed up and shot out of the pot and poured all over the stove. Sigh. I'm getting way too familiar with the process of cleaning this stove.

Later in the day I decided to try again, using water as the recipe prescribes, with no variation other than halving the ingredients.

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