How do I make porridge less boring?

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Sing "You spin me right round baby"' while it's in the microwave

 

[Shadow]

Fig and walnut jam - deeliish!! (Because its not too sweet.)

And as others have mentioned, best quality oats you can buy.

 

[Cubist]

Try Sainsburys "taste the marketing" whole rolled porridge oats. They take a bit longer to cook, but after a couple of years of eating them daily for breakfast I can't say I'm bored with them. My preferred method is to mix half a mug of oats with a full mug of water, half a mug of milk and the essential pinch of salt. Bring to the boil and simmer, stirring constantly until all the liquid is absorbed. The porridge should stick to the wooden spoon, and no hint of any runniness. It takes between three and five minutes. I don't like to slosh any extra milk on at this point, but either honey, golden syrup, or if I'm on a fast day powdered sweetener and a banana. Sweetened condensed milk would be good too. The result tastes absolutely nothing like Quaker, Scott's or any other milled pin or nibbed oats, and the texture way better.

Eat it naked in your garden whilst singing cum by yar !

That's just so very wrong.











You should be singing " Abide with me"

 

[ColinJ]

I will try more expensive oats. Normally, I just buy the cheapest, biggest bag I can find at my local supermarkets.

I always assumed that 'oats is oats' as long as nothing had been added. (I prefer to add my own choice of extras - see above.) I hadn't thought of what might have been taken away. I quite like the sound of 'extra husk'!

 

[summerdays]

I'm a Sainsburys oats, the one in the blue bag, which means that we have to make occasional trips to Sainsburys to stock up as it's not our usual shop! They are neither powdery mush nor firm oats but somewhere in between (and now I think I must be Goldielocks)

 

[potsy]

just a mix of skimmed milk and water for me. 2.5 mins, stir, 2 mins, stir, add some cold milk. No fruit or sugar here

Did you miss the bit where the OP was asking for ways to make it 'less' boring?
I think what you are eating is technically known as 'gruel'

 

[Fnaar]

I soak oats in bowl overnight, simply because I find it more digestible... It swells in bowl rather than in my tum.
One minute 30 secs in microwave, bit of milk, bit of natural yoghurt, bit of sugar.

Then chuck in bin and have a bacon sandwich.

Last bit not true, I love porridge, me.

 

[Aperitif]

What's best: pigmy marmoset or colobus monkey gland?

Glands squished in might give it an orang oat tang

 

[vickster]

Did you miss the bit where the OP was asking for ways to make it 'less' boring?
I think what you are eating is technically known as 'gruel'

I don't like sweet things with lumps in for breakfast though...all healthy stuff is boring

 

[hopless500]

Substitute it for a bacon sandwich?

But seriously, add golden syrup from a squeezy bottle. Calories, shmalories.

Another one here for a dollop of syrup

 

[hopless500]

Having read this I'm a bit worried that I'm overdoing the honey/syrup thing. I'll have a big bowl of porridge before a ride, a teaspoon just isn't enough. I'm looking at a dessert spoon. I particularly like it when I make the porridge a bit too milky. Then, no matter how hard I try, the honey kinda sinks to the bottom. The final scrapings are like freebasing castor sugar

That's the whole point...... yum....

 

[Katherine]

+1 for Tesco standard oats.
I also measure it out the night before so the oats soften before cooking on low whilst I'm in the shower.

 

[Fnaar]

Miss Goodbody up the road reports that she likes her oats of a morning. Says she needs something filling to get her going. Apparently my flaccid brioches just aren't up to the job.

 

[Drago]

Sprinkle Mars Bars on it.

 

[Cubist]

[QUOTE 3474274, member: 259"]Use pinhead oatmeal, it's miles better than that rubbish that Scott's and Quakers peddle and it reminds me of the Ramones.. [/QUOTE]
I got some of that last time we were in Scotland. Tried cooking it in my usual way and it simply set like cement in the pan and refused to mix with the liquid. Needs to be soaked overnight to get the best out of it.