Porridge oats

you do surprise me

Very pleased to discover this thread.
I'd say porridge makes up about 65% of my diet since going vegan a couple of years ago.
I regularly have it for breakfast and lunch on the same day.. with shitloads of different toppings.. all the various combinations of nut/seeds/fruits/grains you can think of... porridge toppings account for a HUGE chunk of my monthly food bill!

Recently I've been pretty addicted to adding half a tin of this to my porridge (along with a spice mix containing cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg etc..)

Used Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's tea porridge recipe today using rooibos, dried apricots instead of sultanas and topped with some stewed nectarines. Was quite tasty.

Serves 2
Add 100g porridge, dried fruit, 2 cardamom pods and some cinnamon to 250ml brewed tea.
Add 250 ml water and heat gently on the hob for 5-20 mins

i heard a very colourful rumour about him the other day. and when I googled it, it seemed widespread

That looks amazing

Do rolled oats reward patience to make them less chewy?

Yes. Or soak overnight.

Jumbo oats will retain their bite, which I like. Fine oats will turn to mush, which I guess is what you’re looking for 🤢

After finishing the dish I possibly don’t have any preferences between chewy rolled oats porridge and the Scottish porridge oats that will give you the smoother, creamier consistency.

Jumbo or rolled oats and milk for me.

Leave in sauce pan for an hour on a low heat. Go for a run/swim and come back to add banana, papaya and sometimes a bit of honey, peanut butter or unrefined cane or palm sugar.

There really is a thread for everything on here. I've been on the porridge for the last couple of weeks nothing fancy like the rest of you, just full fat milk and a splash of maple syrup.

Battling some spartan bowls of porridge this week.

I'm doing an "Ayavedic kitchari cleanse", and thus swapping ordinary lockdown vibes for a new monotony:
Breakfast: Porridge
Lunch: Lentil curry
Dinner: Lentil curry
Snacks (only if desperate): Seeds

No caffeine or sugar in anything all week, except an apple if I'm desperate. Very interesting to see how you fare without those spikes.

This morning's porridge is great though! I think the trace levels of sugar in the ginger are really revving my engine.

• Oats
  
• Oat milk
  
• Water
  
• Ginger (lots)
  
• Turmeric (little)
  

This is a good luxury version: make your porridge as usual but grate a carrot in, plus cinnamon, vanilla extract, walnuts and raisins.

On the hob for a few mins then in a dish in the oven for 20. Actually like carrot cake for breakfast. Cream cheese icing optional.

Intriguing...

Carrot sounds grand.

Baked porridge is good too. Tinned peaches are a hidden delight

Pinhead here for past 6 weeks. Helps with my GERD for sure. Keeps me full for so long.

Pinhead
2/3 No sugar Coconut Milk
1/3 water
Chopped Banana
Cinnamon syrup

Banana / carrot / apple / PB combo pre ride this morning. Banger.

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Holy fk that looks good

The organic strawberries were disappointing but the sour very good with the porridge.

Pickled rhubarb, pear and dried ginger here.

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Pear? It is the berries season.

I takes what I gets in the OddBox

Haha hence the rhubarb. Is the picked recipe the one from the email, and is it good?

Aaaaahctually the rhubarb is from a Japanese farm we visited near Lewes. Little Duck pickling method. I’m a big fan, my wife can’t handle it.

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I’m not a fan of the jumbo oats (too chewy), and can’t really find pinhead (steel cut) oats outside of bulk buying it from a mill somewhere that I have forgotten)
So what are the preferred porridge makers, flahavan’s, Scott’s, mornflakes?

The health food shop up Clapham High street do big bags - 3 kilos - of the Mornflakes oats …. jumbo or quick type … they have a very nice taste to them.