Porridge

[clarion]

I don't use milk to make porridge; I much prefer water.  But I don't take it camping cause I don't like scrubbing it off the pan.

If I could take a microwave camping, however...

[hellymedic]

Can I confess to the sin of using Quaker's Oat-So-Simple when camping?   


Please do not judge me too harshly...

When are you not camping?  

[Regulator]

Can I confess to the sin of using Quaker's Oat-So-Simple when camping?   


Please do not judge me too harshly...

When are you not camping?  

 

One has to keep one's energy levels up.  Being as fey as I am is exhausting, you know...

[citoyen]

I have porridge for breakfast most days since I hit on the idea of keeping a bowl and a bag of oats in my desk drawer and making it in the microwave in the office canteen. I always make it with water and also keep a squeezy bottle of honey in my desk to drizzle on top. It's great because I'm always in a rush in the morning and never have time to make breakfast before I leave the house.

what else is good in/with porridge ?

Raspberries and/or blueberries are good. We also keep bags of frozen cherries in the freezer specially for putting in porridge. I'm also partial to putting grated apple in the pan with the oats.

Another thing I make is thick oaty pancakes with diced streaky bacon mixed into the batter (best if you make the batter the night before). Yummy. Also portable, so good to make the night before a ride and take with you for snacking on.

I don't use milk to make porridge; I much prefer water.

Likewise. The smell of cooked milk makes me retch.

d.

[alan]

Breakfast every 2nd day, approx, is porridge.

Same here

[Cudzoziemiec]

hmm that got me thinking, what else is good in/with porridge ?

1) Salt
2) Herrings
3) Whisky

Replace the whisky with vodka, and I think we have a porridge recipe that will conquer the Baltic.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

I like Ready Brek more.

[delthebike]

I like Ready Brek more.

And I thought you were a lady of good taste. 

Ready Brek is stans dandruff from the nether regions of his pits.

[citoyen]

I like Ready Brek more.

Isn't that some kind of heresy in Scotland?

d.

[peliroja]

I like porridge, but for some reason it just doesn't fill me up for long enough. An hour or so later and I'm ravenous again. What am I doing wrong?

[Sergeant Pluck]

Bowl volume? 

[Adrian]

That would be it, too much air in the bowl.

[hellymedic]

I like porridge, but for some reason it just doesn't fill me up for long enough. An hour or so later and I'm ravenous again. What am I doing wrong?

Same here!
My partner eats porridge I make with 20 grams of oats. He then usually has toast for his breakfast.
I am full enough if I eat 50 grams of raw oats, with raisins.

I think I just need more oats;maybe you do too! 

(I don't think it's my imagination; I had porridge one morning when I was on HUGE doses of IV steroids for my MS. They checked my blood sugar cos steroids can cause diabetes. It was 2.8 mmol/l, which is rather low...)

[peliroja]

Maybe I do need more oats. I get a bit bored of a bowl of porridge after a few mouthfuls.

But it's infinitely preferable to the stinky burger the girl next to me on the train is currently tucking into. Bleurgh.

[Wowbagger]

Maybe I do need more oats.

I know a man... 

You set 'em up and I'll knock 'em away!

Peli, there's lots of ways of making porridge interesting. Anything that works in flapjack also works in porridge. My preference at the moment is brown sugar. Different members of the family add different stuff: syrup, jam. crystallised ginger, dried fruit. Regards your bowl of porridge as a blank canvas just yearning for your culinary art!

[woollypigs]

Maybe I do need more oats. I get a bit bored of a bowl of porridge after a few mouthfuls.

But it's infinitely preferable to the stinky burger the girl next to me on the train is currently tucking into. Bleurgh.

You should have told me that there was some in the micro, Now it will go to waste

[Che]

Made porage for many this weekend in a cottage in Snowdonia belonging to the North London Mountaineering club. I'm not of the "make it like rice pudding with loads of milk and sugar" persuasion. Water, oats and a pinch of salt. Make it very thick, then stir in some milk at the end, and warm through. Let folks sweeten it themselves. I'm all in favour of honey or brown sugar, and a bit of dried fruit.

Then run around a handful of 3000ers, grinning like a loon

[Sergeant Pluck]

Maybe I do need more oats. I get a bit bored of a bowl of porridge after a few mouthfuls.

But it's infinitely preferable to the stinky burger the girl next to me on the train is currently tucking into. Bleurgh.

That's nice, yeah. Burger at 08:40 on the frickin train. 

[Adrian]

Hamburgers! The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast.

[Chris S]

Porridge really is the only breakfast, other than a 3000KCal Full English, that can get me to lunchtime on minimum hunger pangs - even after an early morning Gym session and "commute".

Although I was hungry enough to eat the arse out of a dead Rhino, come lunchtime today - I had made it to that point on just one bowl of porridge after this morning's gym session  .

[geoff]

hmm that got me thinking, what else is good in/with porridge ?

1) Salt
2) Herrings
3) Whisky

Replace the whisky with vodka, and I think we have a porridge recipe that will conquer the Baltic.

Cream, clotted cream or goats yoghurt
Honey

actually, clotted cream is really good with it

[Jaded]

actually, clotted cream is really good with it

It is quite good without it too.