Perfect Oats

This morning I woke up with a headache and an incessantly itching brother dog. Yes, that coned creature in my last post kept me up, and I was hardly in the mood to make a baked oatmeal souffle has planned for my mom and co. Once in a while magic happens in the kitchen, usually when you least expect it - like at 7 in the morning when you can't sleep. This was one of those moments. I make oatmeal three days a week. I like oatmeal. It's usually nothing too special. This oatmeal? Oh, it's special, deliciously special.

Perfect Oats for two

Ingredients:
1 c. vanilla soy milk
1 c. water
1 c. rolled oats
dash of salt
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 Tbs. maple syrup
1 egg (can be omitted)
3/4 c. blueberries

Directions:

1. Pour soymilk, water and oats into a pot.

2. Heat pot on medium high heat. When it bubbles, start stirring and turn down heat to low.

3. Add in salt, cinnamon, and syrup.

4. Stir occasionally for the next 3 or so minutes. The oats should be coming together at this point and become firm.

5. Once oats look almost to your desired consistency, crack the egg into a separate dish and whip with a fork until frothy.

6. Pour egg on top of oats, using your fork whip egg into top layer of oats.

7. Stir oat mixture to combine egg.

8. Turn heat off, and stir in blue berries gently.

9. Allow oats to sit for a few minutes before devouring! YUMMMM