{"id":21899,"date":"2026-02-24T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21899"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:16:17","slug":"daily_4010_-_porridge_learnings_and_spoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/02\/24\/daily_4010_-_porridge_learnings_and_spoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4010 &#8211; porridge learnings, and spoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main benefit of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/12\/26\/daily_3950_-_fancy_porridge\/\">the porridge book<\/a> has not been the recipes in it, but how it&#8217;s made me rethink porridge.<\/p>\n<p>In my mind, porridge has always been a simple meal. It consists of the porridge itself and a topping. The porridge itself is utter simplicity: grains + liquid + salt. The topping can be jam, honey, fruit, or possibly even a combination such as apple sauce + cinnamon. The most adventurous that I&#8217;ve been in the past is putting (some of) the topping in the porridge: cooking the porridge with a diced apple, instead of adding apple sauce on top, and then maybe adding nuts as well. Two toppings? Where will this craziness end?<\/p>\n<p>Somehow it&#8217;s never really occurred to me that I could add more. It&#8217;s like I didn&#8217;t give myself permission to make porridge a complex, luxurious thing&#8230; because it&#8217;s not supposed to be?<\/p>\n<p>You can put cinnamon AND cardamom in the porridge. You can cook the fruit &#8211; fry the banana, turn the pears into a compote, make a sauce from the cherries. You can do that AND add a sauce AND nuts as well. All at the same time<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4010_porridge_and_spoon.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This looks ugly as all get out &#8211; beige with brown and more brown and then this really horrible greenish-brown &#8211; but it was decadently good. Cardamom-flavoured four-grain porridge, a home-made pear compote, an artisanal peppermint-flavoured honey, and chopped walnuts.<\/p>\n<p>Also: one of the three spoons I bought in Japan was just perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main benefit of the porridge book has not been the recipes in it, but how it&#8217;s made me rethink porridge. In my mind, porridge has always been a simple meal. It consists of the porridge itself and a topping. The porridge itself is utter simplicity: grains + liquid + salt. The topping can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,745,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-food_and_cooking","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21901,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21899\/revisions\/21901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}