Saturday 10 December 2011

The great porridge debate.....

OK a very quick one from me today I'm onward to 'womble' work in a moment - I've been multi-tasking this morning - which means I've been getting ready for work and being distracted - this morning its porridge which got me  inspired and grabbing my little phone camera and thinking. 

Yes porridge, the most noblest of breakfasts. I love it - you see I may be Scottish after all.  I got to wondering what other folk take on theirs. I normally  cook the porridge (1 cup oats, 2 cups water - cook for about 10 minutestirring now and again to avoid those menacing porridge lumps, which are hideous) and I normally cook it with a generoupinch of salt. I don't add salt to much except porridge, tatties and eggs. (Oh and slugs but we're talking breakfast here, I don't add the salt to slugs to eat them (YUK) I add it to dispose of these menaces). Anyhow back to the porridge, take mine with a lovely lot of milk and a tiny bit of sugar. 

How do you take yours?

And don't tell me you don't like porridge - everyone loves porridge it sticks to your ribs and makes you cosy on a very cold day, no one really dislikes it - its delish. If I'm feeling decadent - I sometimes even make it as normal and eat it with brown sugar and the cream from the top of the milk. YUM. 

The hens today are taking their porridge with apples (wrinkly apples but don't tell them) and an extra bit of fat (/4 block vegetable fat) in there - (to help keep out the cold on this winters day). I don't particularly like it like that (YUK) but then again - I'm not a chookie.
Peedie (the disgusting hound) will eat it like that too if allowed (We don't let him) but he prefers his with a bit of milk too. Yes he gets his porridge in the morning too, but not too much.


Have a great one, and keep warm do let me know what you take on your porridge...........


(I'm playing around with blog theme - bear with me! It will change again probably)

25 comments:

  1. Sugar???? But a wee drop of cream is just delicious...
    Our hens have decided not to eat porridge... but the dog loves it.
    And where has your lovely photo gone? I did like the original of the camper van and Hoy.I've changed the photos on mine which I thought was mighty brave of me...I thought the whole thing might disappear!

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  2. A sprinkle of raisens, please, and butter!
    And crispy bacon to eat with it.
    Very good on a cold morning!

    I guess I just ruined a very healthy breakfast by adding lots of fat!

    Lea
    Mississippi, USA

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  3. As child I was forced to eat porridge and hated ir, would not touch it until around 18 months ago. I started eating it when we decided to come North to look for a house and tried ready brek......soon graduated onto the proper stuff, although of we stay in a travel lodge ready brek comes with us.

    I cook mine in a porringer, a double cooker, oats and water in the top and water in the bottom, stir frquently to bash out the lumps.

    OH takes his the traditional way with salt stirred in, me.... demererra sugar and a drop of milk and we eat it all year round, its cheaper than buying cereal for the summer.

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  4. I love porridge, almost as much as I love mashed potatoes. Now there I was getting excited - a whole post about porridge and then you had to mention the S word (Triple YUK).......... but I digress.
    I like my porridge made with almond milk and some added raisins and banana as a special treat. Most days I just have it made with almond milk though. Today it was a special treat day so I just finished mine with raisins, apple and brown sugar. YUM SCRUM Oh, and Moo likes porridge too.

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  5. I have mine with honey as it feels more virtuous than sugar?! I'm sure it isn't though!

    Poor slugs! :(

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  6. ...oh it has to be with butter, cream and brown sugar, absolutely delicious. Sue.

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  7. I like my oatmeal with dried cranberries, walnuts and a small pat of butter stirred in. A sprinkling of coarse sugar on top and then milk. I'm not a very righteous breakfast eater. (lol) Some days I like it plain with just the butter. I love how it warms you up from the inside out.

    Missouri, USA

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  8. Porridge made completely with milk, and sugar I'm afraid, and blueberries..... I have porridge every day for breakfast, throughout the year! Yum! And if I'm feeling poorly I'll sometimes have it for lunch and dinner too.....

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  9. Janet - I do like a peedie bit sugar with mine - and as if by magic a photo appeared - forgotten I used it before the days when the camper was sulking! Playing with blogger and photos is quite scary - and cream on porridge by the way - YUM!

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  10. OK is butter on porridge an American thing? Never heard of that before.......nice to see you Lea - nice combination - savory and sweet..........

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  11. silver sewer - how yummy - and all year round I get fed up of it - but then again I'm not a big breakfast fan - I'm learning to eat before I leave the house though I normally munch a couple bananas and an apple or two on the way into work. My new work is 4 miles from home - so not time to take in most of my five a day - therefore the porridge!

    Nice to see you - interesting the porringer - I'll have a look at them - I know folk use their slow cookers too.

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  12. Cheri I think I'd vote Porridge after mash (the god of all foods) - but its a close call and don't tell LT. Almond milk sounds nice - I have coconut milk (not the tinned stuff) in the cupboard. But raisins are just plain evil as is all dried fruit and mince pies are I have to say the route of all evil in the universe with their partner in crime christmas cake and christmas pudding (but I digress).

    I had heard they (Raisins) were dried spiders without their legs, but that might only be a rumour!

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  13. Vix I'm sure it is all those bees can't be wrong can they?

    Don't feel sorry for the slugs - they wouldn't rescue you if you were in trouble............heartless chloroplast munching fiends.

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  14. sue - as before - YUM!

    And ALL8 nice to see you too and interesting too - my how diverse we all are.

    Again the butter on porridge, I've not heard of that here in the UK - but I can be corrected. Is it quite common where you are?

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  15. Haven't eaten porridge since my mother made it for me on winter school mornings. I'm still fabled among my nieces for eating it with a layer of chocolate sprinkles. When I'd eaten that layer, more sprinkles.

    Now I eat homemade muesli with craisins (legless RED spiders!) Cold uncooked porridge? But I did bake the oats.

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  16. Oh I have mine will milk and brown suger.

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  17. Lots of different ways, this is good! I have mine with linseed, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds, sweetened with manuka honey and then crunchified with a few cornflakes on top.

    I'll get my coat :)

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  18. Oats, half water half milk, apple chopped up, raisins ( or other dried fruit or seeds) and honey
    Yum
    K

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  19. I also have mine with milk sugar but sometimes with syrup. lovely

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  20. Porrige! My Grandfather was a purist - medium oatmeal, water, salt, stirred with a spurtle and the milk served separately. I am afraid I have not followed in the tradtion.I soak my oats - 2 cups usually medium, coarse or the rolled oats, over night in 2 cups water along with a couple of tablespoons of yogurt. Then in the morning i boil up another 2 cups of water, stir in the oaty mixture, add salt and simmer for 5 minutes or so - until it plops. We are currently eating ours with cream and treacle. xxx

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  21. Hm, butter must be an American thing. I like it with and on lots of things, good thing I married a Dutchman. (lol)

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  22. Well, I had not heard that raisens were legless spiders. However, I have a friend who will not eat oatmeal-raisen cookies because she says they look like flies baked in the cookie dough!

    Are cookies called biscuits in Europe?

    Lea
    Mississippi, USA

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  23. Yum... porridge. Put a little bit of salt in when cooking it, but usually eat with a splash of milk and some dark brown sugar.

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  24. Yum - made with milk and chopped, cooked apple added half way through :)

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  25. Skim milk. And, in season as they are now, fresh strawberries from the garden. They sink in and go slightly jammy. Delicious. I am not human until I have had my porridge!

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