Porridge - the food of the gods.
Samutri
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With some trepidation, I thought I would start a thread on how to make the best porridge.
This is my suggestion for the super deluxe version:
Buy decent porridge oats - Alford oatmeal is best, get large flakes if possible
Soak overnight in skinny milk with a hefty pinch of salt
Ratio is roughly 1 part oats to 3 parts milk but experiment until you can do this without measuring.
Stick in a small saucepan and gradually bring to boil, stirring all the time.
Turn down heat and continue to stir until the porridge is at the required thickness.
Pour into a bowl and add toppings of your choice - honey is as close to orgasmic as is legally allowed!!
Let the pot cool and soak in cold water to help remove the gloop.
Enjoy!
This is my suggestion for the super deluxe version:
Buy decent porridge oats - Alford oatmeal is best, get large flakes if possible
Soak overnight in skinny milk with a hefty pinch of salt
Ratio is roughly 1 part oats to 3 parts milk but experiment until you can do this without measuring.
Stick in a small saucepan and gradually bring to boil, stirring all the time.
Turn down heat and continue to stir until the porridge is at the required thickness.
Pour into a bowl and add toppings of your choice - honey is as close to orgasmic as is legally allowed!!
Let the pot cool and soak in cold water to help remove the gloop.
Enjoy!
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It is more functional than just for taste (but it actually tastes really good!)
oats and milk - of course. hehe
sliced banana
1 scoop banana flavoured protein powder ( yes this is where functional starts)
handful of cashew nuts
spoon of honey
tea-spoon of glutamine
tea-spoon of creatine
This is my porridge before weights! works a treat!
50g oats then top up bowl with soy milk bung it in the micro for 3 mins (stir it after 2 ) then tonnes of honey and mixed berries and seeds
mmmmmmmmmm !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I then add lots of honey and raisins.
When I have little time I add frozen raspberries, cause it cools the stuff for quicker eating.
Keep posting here, so we can get new ideas to try out.
and a bit of Maple Syrup
I have been trying to get to like porridge for years as I hate it - this one works for me
otherwise I put the oats into oaty pancakes:-
1.5oz oats
1.5oz flour
1 egg
150ml milk
a handful of dried fruit - I like raisins
1 bit of melted butter/marg/oil to cook them in
mix it into a batter and make into small thick pancakes - I griddle them so they are not too fatty
serve with yoghurt, and bananas - oh joy!
Makes me quite emotional just thinking about it.
First a shaving thread, now a cooking one. What next?
He lasted 4 days before he started to feel a bit funny. But the fact that he lasted so long shows how awesome porridge is!
My fav is just a sprinkle of brown sugar, then it's let battle comence, my 3 year old lad can't get it down quick enough so I have to make a big pot.
Going to give the porrige pancakes a go in a minute.
move over goldylocks.
So that's something you can tell your 3 year old next time he refuses to eat his greens and insists on seconds of porridge!
I fancy a bowl of porridge now were talking about it!
Made those pancake things last night, must have got something wrong, or i ate the plate they were on. Sorry to say they have not made it to my favourate food list.
What's the wierdest thing someone has put in porridge? keep it clean the wife reads this too.
Walnut and blueberry bran pancakes
350ml whole milk
80g instant oats
95g sifted all-purpose flour (or a blend of white and whole-wheat flours)
25g oat flour or oat bran
110g blueberries
60g chopped walnuts
1 tbsp baking powder
2 tbsp honey
1 tsp salt
2 eggs, beaten
Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. Then pour milk over the oats and lightly stir in the eggs. Add the mixture of dry ingredients, and the honey, to the oats mixture, stirring until combined. When the batter is thoroughly mixed, stir in the blueberries and walnuts. Ladle batches of the batter onto a preheated greased or non-stick frying pan and cook until tops are bubbly and edges look cooked. Turn over and finish cooking the other side. Makes eight pancakes. Per serving (serves four)
Calories: 400
Fat: 16g
Carbs: 52g
Protein: 15g
..but, that said, I tried it out and it was splendid!
used the same mix as previous - roughly 3 to 1 milk to oats and whacked it in for 3 minutes.
gorgeous.
I have been converted, although I'm not going to start wearing frocks!!
Thanks chaps!
(standing by for abuse to begin.....)
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No really, this is so predictable, hence funny. Looks like an episode of 'allo allo'.
Yes, its a cold and lonely existence up here!!
Anyway, you're all wrong. Porridge is the devil's food, and should be banned from all civilised countries.
No, the true Herakleophorbia IV** is 50:50 mix of Bran and Muesli with semi-skinned. Lots of fibre, protein from the nuts, complex carbs aplenty plus some simple carbs from the raisins, and if eaten regularly it bungs you up enough to avoid cock-a-doodle-poo syndrome on your early morning ride. Bet porridge can't do that!
OK. Sorry about the last bit.
(**Bonus points awarded to anybody who can understand this reference without looking at Google)
Anyway, we've gone off-topic. I'll fix that...
....Porridge. Yeeeuch. Best left on the other side of Hadrian's Wall. (Please see my earlier comments about banning it in civilised countries) [;)]
plus on a slightly food related issue, ive started taking these new Lucozade recovery powder mixes with protein (about 12g per pack) in etc. I saw them in asda a month or ago for about 70p each, an thought that wasnt too bad, each one mixes up to about 4-500ml.
Anyway I tried them out as post workout stuff, and, it may be a placebo affect, but they have been ace, ive put on quite a bit muscle in such a short period, and I'm a notorious 'hard-gainer' and also I have felt fresher for my evening training session, after taking them following the morning session!
Just thought you would like to know!
Oats in England sustain horses but in Scotland sustain a nation.
Get your oats fella, they'll help u grow up big and strong!!
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