Mrs RT's
Blueberries, Honey and Almonds
4/5
Note to self: must try whisky in this one 😉
Quick flavour fix if your in a nega rush ...
Note: Morrisons bottle is Vanilla extract. Only use a couple if drops 😉
For Whisky, the whole bottle 😉
1 cup oats. 1.5 cups milk. Quarter teaspoon salt. Jobs a good ‘un and anything else is very, very wrong.
Just tried the porridge with cream and whiskey (15 yr single malt) and it was good.
Great thread.
I like a mix of rice flakes and oats, cooked in Innocent's coconut dairy-free drink. I always add sultanas, a couple of broken-up cashews, and a little bit of ghee. Additional add-ons (not all at the same time) include: crushed or ground – almonds, linseeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, walnuts; black grapes, blueberries, mango, raspberries; cream, now and again, if there's some left over. Love porridge.
Just ok really. Might try again at some point but can't really beat just a tea spoon of brown sugar.
Can't be bothered with other chopped stuff (nuts and fruit). Just keep it basic.
Now what implements are STW folk using to stir the porridge....plain old wooden spoon or a spurtle?
As an alternative to honey or maple syrup try agave syrup.
2021 first tapped maple syrup is now available.
Booze! For breakfast! Bunch of alkies.
Some milk, some oats. Cook. Then a big dollop of golden syrup stirred in. Lush.
Water, sultanas, oats, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, sometimes turmeric - ideally soak overnight. Microwave in the morning, stir in vanilla soya milk, sprinkle with pecans, top with a little maple syrup if you like it sweeter. Sort of vanilla chai porridge, and adding the cold soya milk makes it and edible temperature when you’re in a rush. Don’t eat the cardamom pod by mistake.
Dried fruit, coconut, mixed seeds, mixed oats, blueberries or grapes, all chucked into a kilner jar and shaken. Cold blue milk. It comes out a bit different every time, rocket fuel.
A good inch layer of Black Forest fruit from Lidl under porridge!
Marmalade
Jumbo oats, cocoa powder and frozen black cherries chopped up. Shake, add milk and leave overnight in the fridge. Eat cold.
Otherwise any frozen fruit in before the microwave, especially something sharp like redcurrants. Some seeds or dried fruit on top.
Coconut. Doh! I do fight with keyboard, and its wins most of the time 🙁
I'm only posting as no one has suggested my go-to of a dollop of whatever Jam is in the fridge...
... But I'll be skimming through this thread again in 5 minutes to mix it up this morning
Local honey.
Coconut Milk (tinned) left over from a Korma. Chopped Banana.
Works.
4/5
as for implements.
Bowl, stainless steel spoon and a microwave.
Couple of things worrying me.
People are cooking porridge WITH the milk.
Someone keeps jam in the fridge.
You lot are animals.
1to2 porridge to water, pinch of salt. Jon jobbed, top as you like. A moat of milk, a dollop or go wild but atleast cook it right to start with.
Two pages in and yet no one has suggested that it's wrong to make porridge with anything but just water and sour look on your face. In day's past around here the addition of even a pinch of salt was enough to have one labelled as a dangerous hedonist.
Standards are slipping
Edit: Ah...that's more like it
A kindred spirit!
And when you are full pour the remainder into the dresser drawer and let it cool into a solid form for carving into snack bars. Fill your sporran and go about your day.
Custard.
Dour Scotsman here.. Oats covered in water in pan, pinch of salt. Full heat til bubbling. Low heat for 5 minutes. Into bowl. Splash of milk and a half teaspoon of brown sugar on top. The horrors described above I regard as micro aggressions.
Were Animals !
Even adding whisky ?
LOL Above 😉
Just tried a smashed up TWIX cooked in the porridge.
Taste test... started at 3/5 then the flavours released.... caramel, chocolate them the bonus of finding biscuit chunks.
Final score 4/5.
So, who is going to be the first to try a MARS BAR 😉
Frosties and/or Crunchy Nut Conrflakes, with a knob of butter. Defeats the object of a healthy start but tastes so good!
A kindred spirit!
Not really I'm afraid, I make mine in a microwave with milk, raisins, and cinnamon. It's just that, like coffee threads, it invariably ends up with some-one claiming "you're doing it wrong"
Anyone else do savoury porridge? I've been making it for my lunches a bit more recently.
Made a good one the other day with chilli oil, ginger, fermented garlic honey, soy sauce, oyster sauce, fried mushrooms and a fried egg.
Great little lunch and took five minutes to make
Oh... So I could eat porridge oats for every meal after all?
Chorizo might go well.
Kangaroo mince...
It's endless.
I'm not against anything other than making the porridge with milk I tastes weird.
So, who is going to be the first to try a MARS BAR 😉
That ship is well past, the finest addition to porridge is a snack sized marathon snickers. Any larger and it's too much. Chop it into chunk launch it in, leave it a minute to soften then swirl.
Strictly for camping energy you understand.
Cold soak in milk overnight, big spoonful of cherry yoghurt and a handful of mixed nuts & dried fruit at serving.
Microwaving oats is a dark magic, one second its too runny, the next its concrete.
My usual topping is blueberries, honey and desiccated coconut.
Alternatively I sometimes stir in a teaspoon of Nutella (a little goes a long way) after cooking, and sprinkle some coconut on top.
I did hear somewhere (probably here) of the idea of crumbling a mince pie into microwavable Porridge before cooking, then adding a dollop of double cream after, for a Christmas treat! not tried this though.
Not seeing any mention of protein powder in here. Chocolate or vanilla adds some nice flavour and an easy way of upping your protein in take.
Sliced banana and spoon of honey.
Here's my daily mix.
1 part jumbo oats to 1 part oatmilk / 2 parts water.
Simmer for 3.5 mins and add a half a teaspoon of salt
Simmer for another 3.5 mins and pour into bowl, then load on:
Watermelon
Pineapple
Blueberries
Raisins
Sunflower seeds
Pumpkin seeds
Chia seeds
Cinammon
Ground cloves
Couple of dollops of Aldi blueberry soya yoghurt:
I'll be adding a nip of whisky for a weekend treat from now on!
1/3 Flavahans oats, 1/3 Tesco Honey and Almond granola, 1/3Tesco fruit and nut muslei.
Add equal amount of boiling water and leave alone for 3 to 5 minutes.
Heaped tablespoon of thick Greek yoghurt, dash of milk, moscovado sugar sprinkled on top.
beamers for porridge-disco award! All it needs is a lit sparkler and some of those silver sugar ball bearings you get on cup cakes 🤩. I’d do it tho. (Minus cloves, agh)
(In a synchroatastic way) mine today was oats, oatmilk, oat cream, sliced strawberry, sliced pineapple, chia seeds, and pumpkin seeds.
Have enjoyed this thread and will be trying most if not all of those over the winter.
PS: Oats, oatmilk, salt, golden syrup, sprinkles of both nutmeg and vanilla-extract stirred in. Generous cocoa-dusting. (or Cadburys Options Belgian chocolate drink powder)
(Swap vanilla extract for orange extract for variety. Add sultanas)
Tinned prunes (stones oot!)
Little bit of the syrup from prunes and a healthy splash of Kirkland Maple Syrup.
I also use frozen blueberries and maple syrup too.
But the prunes are the right side of sweet/savoury for me with the maple syrup. Yummy.
Raisins and brown sugar.
Finely chopped strawberries and ripe pear.
Freester Jr puts a massive spoon of Nutella and stirs it in.
Blackberries today. More Purple Haze.
Going to try peanut butter tomorrow.
🙂
i'm now a confirmed porridge with cream and whisky fan!
