Porridge

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I love it
onc cup of oats two of water and one of milk

brown sugar and salt

yeah we have all had porridge this morning!!! Nothing better than warm porridge on a frosty morning!!!

oatsosimple pretty good too, for the lazy amongst us...

I do it with 2 of milk and 1 of water with sliced banana and a handful of sultanas.

Share it with ds.....he loves it

Yum yum

you lot are soft

I do it with NO milk

then salt, yogurt and walnuts

Dee-licious

for the unlazy, pinhead oatmeal even better.Soak it overnight.

I could go on and on about porridge, Used to have a friend who stirred peanut butter and weetabix into hers. That was a bit much for me but I have been known to stir a teaspoonful of tahini into it, and that's lovely. It is also very good as a meaty thing... on the morning of 1st january 2000 I saw in the millenium with porridge with bacon and mushrooms stirred in. (needless to say I had a hangover)...it was exquisite. yes I have read thomcat's menu from fat duck, yes I do like the sound of snail porridge!

do you know the one thing I cannot abide in porridge is yoghurt, suzywong? how do you make it nice? does it not not go all curdly?

enough from me about porridge.

confession time now

As a kid my mum (who can't cook to save her life) did it with water and sugar.

I used to spread it on white toast! That made it yummy

spots you are clearly a freak (mushrooms???)

Never had a curdling issue

MummyMonster, glad to see you have not passed on the family tradition

wonder what the scottish mehtod is.

Scottish recipe likely to be Mummymonster's recipe plus more salt and whisky!!! Enjoy!

Suzy W......I learned to cook out of self defence!

I reckon it is a really hearty breakfast but how do you make it yummy for the kids without sticking jamhoneysugar etc in it?

Scottish method for porridge puritans: pinhead oatmeal soaked overnight, water to cook with, salt only. Grannies dip each spoonful in separate cup of milk to cool; v. delicate. Ploughboys (there are lots of them in the inner cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow) pour remaining porridge into a drawer where it sets and is cut into slices for taking cold into the fields. Or more probably their mothers do it for them. (see separate thread: Splinters In my Boy's Porridge from ploughboysmum).

Make mine with water, then add sugar and cold milk. Lovely - have it everyday. Oh I forgot 2 spoonfuls of bran too.

I like it with cooked with milk, then mash in a banana and a big spoonful of plain yoghurt .

Lidl oats are the nicest as well.