demagogue on 21/11/2005 at 19:02
Can't say ... I stopped eating oatmeal (porridge) when I finished grade-school.
(okay, except on very cold days ... but then it's very cold outside and you want something warm on the inside when you go out. That's fair, isn't it?)
Brian T on 21/11/2005 at 22:29
Quote Posted by Jenesis
Sits back and waits for the Scottish TTLGers to complain that we Southerners know nothing of real porridge.
Or something.
The real way to eat porridge is smothered in Coco Pops.
Scots Taffer on 21/11/2005 at 22:31
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
Real maple syrup (none of that Aunt Jemima shit for this boy) and apple slices.
Good to see another supporting the apple in porridge, however we get no decent maple syrup here... so I guess I'll have to just come over and get some of yours!
And let us not forget the one painful problem with porridge, THE POT AFTERWARDS! >:|
(All porridge microwavers hang your head in SHAME)
thefonz on 21/11/2005 at 22:33
has anyone tried it with a cut-up banana yet?
its far-out and "wacky" ideas such as this which will drive the porridge industry forward.
Gingerbread Man on 21/11/2005 at 22:54
Birch syrup (which sounds really ghetto, I know) is also really tasty. Won't fulfill your longing for fresh-out-the-kettle maple syrup, but it's a good thing nonetheless.
Also, bonus protip regarding maple syrup farms (farms?): They really don't like it when you use the pee buckets they've conveniently nailed all over the forest. Fuck if I know why. Bastards.
SubJeff on 21/11/2005 at 23:18
Quote Posted by Scots_Taffer
And let us not forget the one painful problem with porridge, THE POT AFTERWARDS! >:|
This is actually no problem at all. In winter I eat porridge a fair amount (not so in summer) and the simple solution is just water. Leave the pot with water in it. When you get home from work, or even by lunch, the sticky porridge will have formed a "skin" (I'm talking on the bottom of the pot) that is very easy to remove. I'm sure some people somewhere eat this stuff as it's a very, very reliable way of making a prefectly round oaty skin.
*Kitchen tips from the leftfield :p Today's bonus: lime juice + okra = bye bye slime*And if you burnt the pot in the first place it's back to skool for you.
Brian T on 21/11/2005 at 23:23
I thought he was referring to a different kind of pot.
Scots Taffer on 21/11/2005 at 23:31
Hahaha. I'm surprised StD hasn't popped in to say COKE IS GREAT IN PORRIDGE BUT GODDAMN THIS GOVMT! :mad:
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
This is actually no problem at all. In winter I eat porridge a fair amount (not so in summer) and the simple solution is just water.
I learned "just water" the hard way some time ago and wanted to see if anyone else hadn't discovered it yet. I take pleasure in pulling off the horrible floaty skin sac now.
I'm still trying to think of a fun way of saying I want that ghetto syrup on my porridge.
(to the wife) HEY BIRCH, WHERE'S THE SYRIZZLE ON THIS PORRIZZLE?
littlek on 21/11/2005 at 23:56
Real Maple syrup....that brings back memories of summers spent at our cabin in Georgian Bay in Ontario. It was near a little town called Killarney. There was a maple syrup camp a short hike from the cabin and we'd always lug gallons of the stuff back. I never knew what fake syrup tasted like as a child and have never been able to eat anything but the real stuff.
I have just recently started eating Bob's Red Mill Steel-Cut Oats, 10-Grain Cereal, and Muesli. I never liked oatmeal because all that I tried was Quaker and it was too mushy. I like my oatmeal with real maple syrup or honey. To be honest, being a recent oatmeal consumer, I have not thought about adding peaches or blackberry jam. I have wild blackberries growing in my woods - those small ones that are packed with flavor. I'll have to try that this spring. And I have a peach tree. Thanks for the insight GBM. ;)
SD on 22/11/2005 at 00:08
Quote Posted by Scots_Taffer
Hahaha. I'm surprised StD hasn't popped in to say COKE IS GREAT IN PORRIDGE BUT GODDAMN THIS GOVMT! :mad:
Well up there in Scotland, with all your farming subsidies, you might have the kind of capital washing about that allows you to squander perfectly good cocaine as a breakfast garnish, but down here... not so much. And besides, porridge is bitter enough already.
Brown sugar and milk BTW.
