The glory of porridge (merged)

littlegreenparrot

Peel and chop an apple.
Put it in a saucepan with a bit of butter, a teaspoon of sugar and sprinkle of cinnamon.
Put it on a high heat and stir until the butter has melted, turn the heat down and put the lid on for 5 mins.
The sugar melts and you get lovely syrupy juices.

I have it with porridge for breakfast, with yoghurt/rice pudding for tea. Keep meaning to make some crumble topping to have with it.

I love this, also works well with pears, or anything else that happens to be lying about : )

Callie22

Stir in a bit of treacle, some ground ginger and some mixed spice (not too much!) and you get gingerbread porridge. It's also nice if you add some dried fruit or chopped apple.

hattifattener

Mashed banana and raisins stirred in to the cold oats and milk and cooked through.

Saw an idea the other day for stirring in peanut butter, but haven't tested it out yet.

I don't do 'Clean Eating' - it seems to be a health food diet (I'm probably massively misunderstanding it) but this woman is trying to collect 365 ways to eat porridge. http://www.thegraciouspantry.com/oatmeal-recipes/ Some of them look really nice.

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny

Has to be rolled oats! And from Alford Mill!

Always serve with a passion. In Sonny paradise, minds me of my days of boys brigade camp. Mornings were filled with joy, dew. Tents to prep, parade to do. Breakfast would come with pleasure, enamel mugs of tea, porage, served from enamel jugs. Bacon, sausage and eggs, on certain days, scrambled eggs, kippers. Always a refil of tea and porage.

The end of the day came with cocoa, not that awful drinking chocolate, but pure unadulterated cocoa, with love.

So that is all you need, porage, served with love. Then to finish the day, cocoa. This time of year, this can be done outside.

Callie22

hattifattener wrote: »

Saw an idea the other day for stirring in peanut butter, but haven't tested it out yet.

I occasionally make peanut (or almond) butter porridge and have some strawberry jam on it (I like the St Dalfour stuff that's made with fruit juice). It's bit like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

eilidh_s

I like to put a big dollop of jam or chocolate spread on my porridge. I also love it drowned in milk.

hattifattener

Callie22 wrote: »

I occasionally make peanut (or almond) butter porridge and have some strawberry jam on it (I like the St Dalfour stuff that's made with fruit juice). It's bit like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

Yum! Hungry now!

vgstar44

mmmmmmmm im a huge porridge fan and most morning its just a splash of golden syrup

chopped apple and cinnamon is yummy

bannana always goes down well too as does strawberries.

what about making it into flapjack bars instead for a change??

adelight

Add a tsp of cocoa powder to make chocolate porridge, nothing like cocopops and far more chocolately than adding real chocolate

Add an egg, milk and flour and make porridge pancakes?

pigpen

yoghurt.. flavoured or plain
pureed fruit.. any that we have on the turn.. not citrus though that is gross.. banana and strawberry or apple are faves in here
honey