Childhood Recipes – Milk

Are you thinking a recipe for Milk is crazy?  Not at all!

Restriction:

This particular recipe is almost always prepared by a parent.   Sometimes a much older sibling prepares it for younger family members.   Neither the parent or older child have any intention of using it personally.

Ingredients:

Carnation Instant Milk (in the red and white box), or,

for pennies more, Carnation Evaporated Milk (because it’s canned it keeps forever ~ won’t get bugs in it or turn into a solid block it if gets wet.  Perfect for your fallout shelter!)

Water

Instructions:

Mix.  Don’t worry about the clumps because no matter how much you stir, mix or blend this they will not completely disappear.   If you used the Carnation Evaporated Milk there are no lumps.   That’s one reason why it costs more.

Tell your children (or younger siblings) that, despite its somewhat watery with floaters appearance,  it tastes just like regular milk!  Insist they use it on their cereal if they won’t drink it outright.

Store unused milk in refrigerator indefinitely, even if the kids start eating their cereal dry.

When it turns a greenish color consider make a new batch.

Seems like 100,000 days

Seems like 100,000 days since I’ve posted but actually it was in February so I’m like about 99940 days short?  My how time slips away… quickly, quietly, like a cat, taking the seconds of my future with it into the unknown and then revealing it to me when it’s too late to change.

I sit at my deskchair and stand on a precipice simultaneously.  Creating words in the German fashion of concatenation (like desk chair becomes deskchair) and letting my thoughts flow freely, possibly incoherently to whomever may be reading this.   Two weeks from today I need to start using my savings account.   Today I need to lower my “expectations” about employment.  No, strike that.   I need to CHANGE my expectations.    I’ve had a few high income years I should just be thankful for and move on.    Today I am going to change my future, before that cat runs off with it!