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If you soak your porridge oats in the milk in the fridge overnight you get nice and creamy porridge in the morning.  This also works for muesli.

jane

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Microwave porridge is so easy (and cheap) that experimenting is worthwhile.
I'm sorry, microwave porridge is the work (and food) of the devil and fit only for the recycling bin.  Good porridge needs a long, slow bring to boil over low heat, then a gentle stir for at least five minutes as it softly simmers and gently splutters.  Then it tastes beautifully creamy (even when made solely with water) and is the food of gods and angels. (according to my grandfather, b.1910 Bettyhill, Sutherland. D.1992 Watford, Herts)

mcshroom

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As jane says microwave is just wrong.

I go 3:1 water:oats and judge whether it's cooked by sight. I like my porridge sticky and quite dry :)
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Microwave porridge is so easy (and cheap) that experimenting is worthwhile.


It would be....

If I had a microwave!  ;)

Good tip about soaking it though, I should try and be more organised. It's getting to the time of year when a good warm filling breakfast is helpful. Generally I have toast. I wonder which works out cheaper, two slices of toast (Sainsburys Basics loaf, 50p) and jam, or a portion of porridge....

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Feanor

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And curiously enough, we have a porridge and spurtle related 'And Finally' news story today...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-19854182

Mrs Pingu

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I don't like microwaved porridge much either, it's a nicer texture in the pan, although Pingu & I differ in our sloppiness.
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hellymedic

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I presume Caffè Nero porridge is microwaved though. I was happy with it.

Wowbagger

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I don't like my porridge to boil.

A bain marie is essential.


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Pingu

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I don't like microwaved porridge much either, it's a nicer texture in the pan, although Pingu & I differ in our sloppiness.

So does our porridge.

hellymedic

  • Just do it!
My campsite porridge is oats + milk powder + raisins + boiling water. Leave to stand...

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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What's with all the porridge chat? What's wrong with Ricicles?  ;D
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hellymedic

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What's with all the porridge chat? What's wrong with Ricicles?  ;D

Everything!
High sugar(40%), high glycæmic index, high cost (60p/100g, cf 10p/100g for porridge oats), no fibre, leaves you hungry within two hours etc. etc...

Basil

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I've been scrumping this morning.
That'll be pie tonight if I can be arsed to build some short crust, or crumble if I can't.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

I just made a cheese sauce. For the first time I used butter, not margarine, and it's the first time it hasn't turned out lumpy. Pre-heating the milk helped too.
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We made a bananananananananana smoothie earlier.

Using MFWHTBAB's newly built, pedal-powered, smoothie maker. ;D
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My Christmas cake and mincemeat are in the oven. Apart from the bits that I ate raw.

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I made mushroom soup this evening.  It's the first time this year, but I made several batches last year, perfectly successfully.

Today's attempt tastes minging and I'm going to throw it out!  I have no idea what I did differently, but ugh!   :-\



Eccentrica Gallumbits

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I made parathas today, for the first time ever. I need to practise more.
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Julian

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Supermarket pouches of wasabi on supermarket sushi are a faint shadow of what wasabi should be.

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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We are reminiscing about Heinz Sandwich Spread and Shippham's meat pastes.
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Jaded

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Sandwich Spread? Is that the stuff that looked like vomit, with diced carrots?
It is simpler than it looks.

hellymedic

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Salad cream with multicoloured piemento. I loved it; Mum despised it.

Tell me it hasn't gone forever?

It's one of those things I might want again, maybe, sometime...

Julian

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It's still in the shops.  Mmm, cheese and sandwich spread sandwich.  Yum.