Creamy Hot Oatmeal with Dreamy Marzipan Topping I really can't identify with people who turn up their noses at hot oatmeal porridge. But maybe it's because they have only ever eaten it with the same old milk and brown sugar topping? Maybe it they tried topping the breakfast with wonderful nut jams (sounds like they might be a bother to make, but they are really easy) they would be converted to l.o.v.i.n.g oatmeal forever! If you have even the tiniest bit of Scots in your background (or even German, I find out from my hubby), you may have been introduced to oatmeal as a youngster. Maybe the icky kind: either thin, grey gruel (ugh) or lumpy, unpalatable "porjch" (gag). My mom cooked the thick lumpy variety and I ate the gruel type when I attended a convent boarding school for a year. But my friend's mom cooked it 'just right' as Baby Bear's. And my mother-in-law's was right up there with the stuff you get served at 5-Star hote...
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