OT: learn from my mistake

Um, the Irish nationalist in me is going to have to take issue with that!

Elizabeth

Isn't Farina and Cream of Wheat the same thing? Victoria

Take all the issue you want, because that's all you get ! Scottish porridge reigns supreme !

Steel-cut oats, with golden raisins and milk for me, blueberries, brown sugar and milk for hubby Silence or music; TV is seldom on at all Reading; I was never much of a writer >

Blog? Link, please!

Why has nobody mentioned cream of RICE? With some melted butter, cinnamon sugar, milk over it.....yummmmmmmmm.

sue

I never tried that. I bet Mika would like that. I never heard of a parrot who loves yogurt, almond milk, rice milk and her favorite is Meunster cheese...which she really can't digest, but gets a squeeney weeney piece now and then or she goes bonk. Victoria

LOL - we're so similar.

Steel cut oatmeal. W/ raisins added. Farina. But, can also handle cream of wheat (wheatena?) - DH's mom evidently used to do it for them quite a bit.

Silence when I'm outside just being. But indoors - likely TV or music for background, The dog listens to the music channels.

Reading - about 70% of the time. Though, on occasion I actually do have to write. That's a compulsion - which takes hold at times.

Ellice

"lucretia borgia" wrote >

they dinna call them Oatmeal Savages for nowt. Scottish oats can sustain you through anything the day brings, including chasing the English.

Dawne

I've never seen it, but it sounds like an elegant version of my Scandinavian grannie's left over rice warmed up in milk with raisins and cinnamon for breakfast--"rice porridge", which I still do once in a while.

Dawne

My father always told me it was good for me 'cause it stuck ones stomach to ones back.

No??? Farina is almost a baby food and very sweet.

I also like Wheatena, but haven't seen it in ages

I do a soup like that with left over rich - just some chicken broth and rice and let it cook to porridge.

My mother was the one who said that in our house! Always porridge for brekkie before school in the colder months.

Gill

We used to do risengrot (rice porridge) for dinner on Christmas Eve, then take the leftovers and mix with whipped cream for "rice cream" on Christmas Day -- yum! Childhood friends *still* remind me of that!

Sue

Wheatena is coarse and not Cream of Wheat, which is farina. I also like pastina! Victoria

I'm not talking about the baby food version of farina. Store brand Cream of Wheat is called farina; at least here.

Wheatena is very good, but it gets stuck in my traverse colon area and causes me intense spasms. I know, more than you wanted to know. LOL Victoria

Zune is part joke. paid $250 for mine. Got one since didn't want ipod, since it was suppose to play downloadable games, text books, audio books, videos, in addition to music. Also they have a program that is to make it easy to install things, even where it will convert things for you if not in the right format.

audio books have to be in certain formats only, and if they don't have drm things.

text books, only after you install the reader. reader not available in normal channels, and then has to only be txt files not doc or rtf. no pdf files either.

videos, can be converted with zune software as long as in normal formats. tried to load digital copies of some movies that are for portable players, don't work since drm issues with them even when they are legal versions that are included for such by the video manufacturer.

games, none available except for the included in the zune software. did find aftermarket free versions available in zune club sites, and they can be loaded but that not as easy as it would seem.

oh to load the programs or games requires that you get Microsoft programs for both programming and also for the Xbox [xna] in order to install. both are of no use for anything else for regular people. after you set the zune as your portable item, it is just 2 steps. step one, load the program. step two, install which does everything when the zune is attached to the pc. so why can't they include that in the zune software.

I also have a cheap asian mp4 player that has a memory card slot for $70. without any extra programs or software, I can read text books in txt and doc formats also pdf book. most music formats even some of the odd formats, and as long as the audio books are in the same types as the music files. most videos can be played as is, and others can be formatted with included program for the smaller 2.5 screen, and also can view the digital copies of movies. only thing it doesn't do is games which is one of the reasons for the zune.

why pay almost $200 more for zune that doesn't do what they say or >