Porridge

[salymap]

I discovered a new twist to this breakfast essential - a big dollop of creamy yoghurt added instead of milk and/or sugar. Absolutely lovely.

I know our Scots friends will not approve.....

Any other ideas -I need to put on weight so if you are slimming, forget it.

[Mary Chambers]

Golden syrup

Do you make it with water? I have got lazy and do it in the microwave, using Quaker oats and milk. Proper porridge made with real oatmeal, water and a bit of salt does taste quite different, and very delicious.

[Serial_Apologist]

Golden syrup

Do you make it with water? I have got lazy and do it in the microwave, using Quaker oats and milk. Proper porridge made with real oatmeal, water and a bit of salt does taste quite different, and very delicious.

With you all the way, this time, Mary!

[Anna]

I love porridge, but I hate the washing-up-of-the-saucepan-afterwards (I don't have a microwave) but topping of choice for sweetness is vanilla yoghurt and sliced banana but generally it's jumbo oats, full fat milk and nothing else. Basically, just plain oats, delicious. Oats are so tasty, and, they lower your cholesterol like magic, acting like scavengers, mopping it up.

[Nick Armstrong]

I love porridge, but I hate the washing-up-of-the-saucepan-afterwards (I don't have a microwave) but topping of choice for sweetness is vanilla yoghurt and sliced banana but generally it's jumbo oats, full fat milk and nothing else. Basically, just plain oats, delicious. Oats are so tasty, and, they lower your cholesterol like magic, acting like scavengers, mopping it up.

Agree with all that! (Of course! ) I confess to enjoying in addition an occasional dollop of Mary's syrup

My Scottish friends have got the porridge thing to a fine art - it goes in the Aga the night before, and cooks oh-so-slowly... (don't know how they do it - if it were me, the receptacle would have to be thrown away with soldered-on remnants of dried out burnt oats). It's perfect next morning, best porridge I've ever had

[french frank]

Golden syrup

That takes me back the odd decade or two My grandfather was the porridge (or porage - always Scott's porage oats) expert and Tate & Lyles was what persuaded us kids to eat it.

Anyone use a spurtle? (No, not you mangerton! Sit down )

[teamsaint]

Might try Cali's slow cook method.
Love porridge , vestiges of the old Jock ancestry I guess.
Unreformed though, its Golden syrup or brown sugar and cream for me.
Gives me shocking indigestion, but its worth it once in a while.

In GOM territory, I am never going to be persuaded to pat £3 or £4 for a bowl of the stuff in a restaurant.
Thats just daft.

[umslopogaas]

Porridge? YeeURcchh! Strictly for Calvinists, for whom food is necessary, but must be as unpleasant as possible lest one derives a sinful pleasure from breakfast. "Did ye enjoy thy porridge Dougal? Oh no Hamish, it was properly disagreeable. Och, that's good, I must be doing something right. Would ye like a few more lumps?"

My Dad used to eat it for breakfast, but he was tough, he'd been through the war ... Mercifully he never seemed to want my Mum or me to join in.

I sort of suppose that it was a way of getting cheap fodder into the stomachs of those who didnt have much money and at the same time getting them to imbibe a drop of milk, dim memories of school in the fifties and what to do if you cant STAND milk? Answer, Mum had to provide me with cheese sandwiches.

Happy days ... not.

[cloughie]

I discovered a new twist to this breakfast essential - a big dollop of creamy yoghurt added instead of milk and/or sugar. Absolutely lovely.

I know our Scots friends will not approve.....

Any other ideas -I need to put on weight so if you are slimming, forget it.

For a real treat - honey and clotted cream!

[Anna]

Anyone use a spurtle? (No, not you mangerton! Sit down )

There was a Nigel Slater cookery programme where he went to the Highlands and met the Champion porridge maker and he was quite blown away by his spurtle, it almost was a culinary bromance in a Highland hut ....

Basically, to get back on topic, porridge is cheap, nutritious and lowers BP and cholesterol. What's not to like? Oh, yes, the Scots loading it with salt ..... bad, bad, for them, especially topped with a deep-fried Mars bar .....

[Nick Armstrong]

There was a Nigel Slater cookery programme where he went to the Highlands and met the Champion porridge maker and he was quite blown away by his spurtle, it almost was a culinary bromance in a Highland hut ....

[salymap]

Golden Syrup too sweet for me but lots of ideas. I have to be careful as if it boils over in the microwave it's worse that cleaning a saucepan.

[teamsaint]

heresy no doubt, but does anybody use the little instant packets?

My kids are quite partial to them........

I know expensive and so on, but no nasties as far as I am aware.

[EdgeleyRob]

Porridge YUK.
Each to their own I suppose,but a bowl of porridge always looks to me like it's already been eaten once.

[french frank]

There was a Nigel Slater cookery programme where he went to the Highlands and met the Champion porridge maker and he was quite blown away by his spurtle

And confesses to holding his upside down ...