Oatmeal, New England style

A'salaamu alaikum ya'll. I have a few recipes I wanna post but I thought I'd do this one. It's not really a recipe but more of a method. Down south we always ate oatmeal (porridge to my UK peeps!) with butter and sugar and then a side of buttered toast and bacon. Yep that's it.

Up here it's a whole different ballgame. Check out the pics and you'll see. Note: this is NOT for the faint of heart. The amount of carbs, total sugar, and fat is shockingly high. We haven't had it for probably 4 months. :-)

For the oatmeal itself we used 3/4 cups oats to 1.5 cups milk. Yeah they use milk here, too. Back home? Water. :-)

I deviated slightly here; I add my butter to the entire bowl, not just the little hole you make later. :-)

Next liberally sprinkle it with brown, not white!, sugar.

Next made an indention in the middle and fill it with hot, 100% pure maple syrup.

OK so that's that. Btw, pure maple syrup costs around $20 for half litre; it's ridiculously expensive but oh-so-yummy. Sorry, Mrs. Butterworth's, your generic butter-flavored, imitation maple syrup product just can't compete! :-)

Ma salaama ya'll...