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Doin’ a Double
Obsessed with food
I’m taking a page out of your book, Paula Shablo, and answering two prompts in one story.
Firstly, winter here is quite warm but the mornings can be cool enough for me to want a bowl of porridge, aka “rolled oats” here Downunder. I love them with brown sugar sprinkled on top so it melts and then add milk to cool the oats down to a temperature at which they can be eaten without scorching the lips, mouth or oesophagus.
If I want something different, I’ll use honey instead of the brown sugar. I never use white sugar. I don’t keep white sugar in the house. I just thought I’ve had no porridge this winter — it just didn’t get cold enough.
November 16 / Paula Shablo
Do you have any food cravings in the winter? What are they?
November 17 / Paula Shablo
Besides the traditional turkey and trimmings, do you have a special dish you prepare for Thanksgiving? Or for a different holiday meal, if you don’t celebrate Thanksgiving?
I’ll let you into a little secret. I don’t like turkey. Maybe it’s because we don’t know how to cook it properly or that our ovens are too small to accommodate an entire bird? I’d rather have chicken. It tastes better and is not as tough.
