Super Purple Milk

Breakfast today turned into a mad scientist's experiment.  I tried to stay simple: cereal.  Special K is sadly the most exciting cereal residing in my pantry.  Though it is tasty and usually enjoyable, it can be boring and disheartening to eat.  Now, the easiest way to spice up cereal a little is by adding fruit.  It's cliché but it works.  Now, I love blueberries.  They're perfect for most anything, snacking, topping off ice cream, or putting in cereal.  I have an excellent relationship with blueberries.  Blueberries and I work well together.    However, I have an aversion to fruit, any fruit, that is old and mushy.  It makes me gag, and, unfortunately for the blueberries, they were old.  Old fruit is okay in smoothies or pies, but anytime eaten alone, we're not friends, old fruit and me.

So, I had a dilemma, eating bland cereal or gagging on one of my favorite fruits.  Neither was an acceptable choice in my eyes so I thought of the only other way to fix my cereal.  If I can't fix the cereal itself and I can't add something to the cereal to make it better, why not add something to the milk.  Having made coco krispies from regular rice krispies and chocolate milk before, the idea of making blueberry milk for my cereal was enthralling.  I put nearly an entire package of blueberries in a small pot on the stove with a tiny bit of water.  I waited for them to get shiny and redish and then smooshed them, much to my easily amusedness, with the back of a wooden spoon.  I added a little honey and then strained the liquid from my pulpy mixture, saving the pulp to mix into vanilla yogurt later, another perfect use for blueberries.  Then, I began to prepare to make a normal bowl of cereal but pouring the milk in first.  I poured a dab of my purpley syrup in and sipped.  Not quite flavored enough.  I dolloped a few spoonfuls in.  Getting better but still not quite there.  I poured every drop of the blueberry concoction into my milk and wound up with this:

Needless to say I was ecstatic.  My mouth loved the flavor, though my mind couldn't quite comprehend what I was eating.  It didn't know what to do with the bizarre "food" it saw in front of it but my taste buds knew it was colorfully delicious!