How Good We've Got It

Yesterday I got up and made oatmeal for breakfast for everyone.  I don't make oatmeal very often because I find it makes me nauseous to eat... it has something to do with the high glycaemic index and I use the old fashioned oats too.  Anyway, I made banana oatmeal... and it was good. But there was tons left over even though we had a good sized helping each.

During the morning when I went to do the dishes I looked at the glop in the pot and thought, what can I do with this... it is a shame to throw it out. We were down to the last few slices of bread since I don't buy bread but make all our bread and have done so since we got married. So I threw the whole works of glop into the bread maker and put in my usual ingredients and went to it. When it was finished it was very nice bread.... except that it had a really tough crust for some reason. Not too tough to eat just a little tougher and chewier than the bread that I usually make. It was when Teapot was cutting himself a slice this morning, that we had this conversation.

Teapot: (cutting slice of bread and having to work a little harder at it than normal..)

Me: Hmmm, that bread has definitely got a tougher crust than normal.

Teapot: Yeah, I don't know why... did you remember to put oil in?

Me: Yes.

Teapot: Sometimes if you leave out the oil then you get tougher crust.  I like it though... it is kind of like French Bread.

Me: Yeah, I like a bread that has a chewy crust... I didn't always though.

Teapot: When I was little I would have complained about bread with chewy crust and I probably would have cut it off.

Me: Really!

Teapot:  Yeah, the girls (daughters) love the crusts especially when they are chewy.

Me: Hmm....

Teapot: I hated bread with holes in it too.

Me: That's weird... why?

Teapot: Because when I put molasses on it the molasses would drip down all over my arm. It was gross.  The kids these days don't know how good they've got it....

Me: : \

Isn't it terrible to get holes in your bread.....especially when there's people in this world who would love to have holey bread.... they'd eat it holes and all!

Enjoy the privileges that are yours today... including holey bread if you have it.