Hello, and welcome to day seven of my Friends by Recipes Challenge!
Today I am sharing a recipe from a new friend of mine. April owns a blog called theย Stratheden Farm. She lived in Scotland for a while and learned exactly how to make the perfect hot porridge that keeps the whole body warm in the morning! April suggests:
“When buying oats for porridge, buy the brand that most looks like a ‘meal.’ It should look like coarsely ground grain, not flakes or hard little chunklets. (Those have other uses.) Our favorite variety isย Bob’s Red Mill Scottish Oatmeal which is the real deal; stone ground in a real water mill.”
I used Oat Bran to make this. Is that okay, April? They seemed like the texture you described, and the oatmeal came oat tasting scrumptious with it!
Ingredients
1 cup oatmeal
3 cups water
pinch salt
walnuts
rasins
flax seeds
dried cherries
milk
Do not believe the package when it says to add oats to boiling water. You will spend all your time breaking up lumps and think making good porridge is difficult.ย Good porridge is brain-dead work.
- My Porridge!
Thought-provoking, mind-prodding question of the day:
Do you eat a bedtime snack?
I only do if I am hungry. I cannot go to bed on an empty stomach! But it also isn’t good to go to bed extremely full. There has to be a happy-medium.
If you do eat a bedtime snack, what do you eat to help you fall asleep?
I used to eat peanut butter toast. The whole wheat bread was nice and crunchy while the peanut butter melted as soon as it touched the bread’s surface!
Yum! I’ve never had porridge, but it seems like a great meal as the weather gets colder! As for bedtime snacks, as I posted earlier this week, I’m trying not to eat after 8pm, and I’ve found it helps me sleep much better!! ๐ (But I LOVE peanut butter on toast!)
Kids love porridge.. with raisins and cinnamon
Great post! Thanks for sharing with us.
That porridge looks so warm and filling. I like to eat toast with some kind of nut/seed butter before bed. It helps me sleep and keeps me from going hungry during the night. Lately I have been enjoying sunflower seed butter.
I’ve been enjoying sunflower seed butter, too! I won a jar from another blog, and it was my first time trying it! I really love it on apples. I’ve been trying to cut down on my peanut butter consumption (because I ate so much my stomach started not feeling well when I ate it ๐ ), so this has been a savior!
This is funny, my favourite bedtime snack actually is oatmeal ๐
I don’t eat a big portion of it, or i’ll feel awfully full – Just a mug’s worth does the trick. The warm creaminess puts me to sleep haha, I’m such a baby!
Glad you enjoyed the porridge. I would never have thought about using oat bran but obviously it worked well!
Yes, it did! I liked it a lot! Thanks for the recipe ๐
I never knew what porridge actually was – neat! I love the idea of adding dried cherries too, sounds really good!
bed-time snack:oatmeal…with banana. the milk, oats, and banana..will make you sleepy..and perfectly full!!! but sometimes i have yogurt.
don’t normally eat a bed time snack and truth be told when I have in the past it was probably some sugary carb thing but I am trying to put all that into a proper place.
I have been upping my proteins and fats and lowering my carbs and eliminating my “bad” carbs and even really watching grains.
I feel full, satisfied and don’t crave sugar hardly at all.
loving it!
keep those recipes coming! got any more gluten free ones????
I made your pumpkin spice bread yesterday again! it’s amazing!
Yes, I am going to be working on more gluten free recipes because I was just tested to have a gluten sensitivity (and my little brother might have Celiacs ๐ ) So, more gluten free recipes will be coming!!!
I am so glad you enjoyed the pumpkin bread again