Porridge: love or hate? Vote now please!

[tmac100]

Have you tried frying it Mick? It could make all the difference

Fried porridge?
You could have something there!

My father loved it! I ate it in the late '50s with lots of butter....

RIP 1966. He was a worker in Canada's logging camps in the late '30s and early '40s

[Debs]

Had some today microwave type with syrup

Golden Syrup? ...now that really is delicious!

For breakfast this morning i had porridge made to;
half milk - half water, a tea-spoonful of demerara sugar, and tea-spoonful of black treacle. Yummy!

[Timls]

Porridge makes a fine start to the day ............

No it doesn't.
Porridge is horrible.

It all depends on what you like or you don't like.
You think it's a fine start to the day, and I don't.


.................... but I think I'm in a minority.

Haha, each to their own I guess!

[Cyril Haearn]

Sorry the poll is closed
But most who voted do love porridge a bit

[Mick F]

Sausage sarnies for breakfast this morning.
A fine start to the day!

[Cyril Haearn]

Porridge for breakfast, that is a no-brainer, TINA!

But what do porridge-slurpers have for supper? I love lentil soup, I make plenty, it keeps for a few days. This morning I did not finish my porridge, I added it to my lentil soup for supper

[Debs]

Just wondering if all you people who don't like porridge [all two of you]

...like flapjack?

I love flapjack - make it with demerara and golden syrup + a little teaspoonful of black treacle. Yummy!

[Mick F]

Yep, flapjacks are fine. Mrs Mick F makes them with Demerara and black treacle.

[pjclinch]

For slightly less of a sugar rush than a standard flapjack, Emma Pooley suggested a variation where you replace the butter/sugar (in whatever form) mix with grated apple and condensed milk. I've worked this in to the following:

One 300 ml tin of condensed milk
300g of oats
2 large (or 3 medium or 4 small) apples peeled and grated
handful of raisins/sultanas

Mix it all up, spread on to a greaseproof lined baking tray, bake in a cool oven (gas 1/140C/120C-fan) for 45-60 mins.

Not as tasty as a well executed "proper" flapjack, but better IME as a long-term fuel. I went through pretty much a tray on a Century and wasn't fed up with them.

Pete.

[Pastychomper]

I love flapjack. So does my horse, he even likes it when it's burnt and crunchy.

[Mick F]

How did we get on to flapjacks on a porridge thread?

Yes, they may have oats, but porridge is a yukky mess in a bowl, and flapjacks are sweet and crunchy.
One is wet and hot in a bowl, the other is a biscuit.

[Debs]

But flapjack isn't really biscuit, and nor is it really cake either...

it's more like a handy slab of portable porridge on a stick [but without the stick]

[Mick F]

Not at all like porridge.
Dunno what your flapjacks are like. The ones I eat that Mrs Mick F makes are snappy and crunchy.

Digestive biscuits?
Oatmeal biscuits?
Flapjacks?

Sorry, just coz there's oats in them, they ain't a bit like porridge.

[Cyril Haearn]

But flapjack isn't really biscuit, and nor is it really cake either...

it's more like a handy slab of portable porridge on a stick [but without the stick]

+1

[Vetus Ossa]

I’m not sure it would appeal to your die hard, made with water, sprinkled with salt and eat standing up type porridge eater, but our local Sainsbury’s make a what they call porridge, and it's delicious. Served with either syrup or honey…give it a go.