In the UK, when people say "porridge", we generally mean the one made of oats (oatflakes, rolled oats, jumbo oatflakes, oatmeal). People who make their morning porridge from a different grain usually specify it. On cold winter mornings, I have quinoa porridge made with hemp milk and rice syrup. (It's delicious, vegan and healthy!)
Ah, but does your quinoa come from Peru or Bolivia and contribute to the impoverishment/lack of affordable nutrition for the peasant population in those countries?
That's great! I know that there are a few growers in France and England but 90% of what is available in shops comes from Peru or Bolivia. I firmly believe that no-one in Europe needs to eat quinoa and if it is not grown here we shouldn't buy it. The increasing consumption of that grain in Europe is causing prices to skyrocket in the countries where it was a staple for poor people. The people who were dependant on it can no longer afford it.It's by Hodmedod's and it's grown in the UK!!!
I didn't know about hemp milk before you mentioned it, and I naturally got curious about what it was and found that it's made from cannabis! Now I'm even more curious. Does this milk have any mood improving effect on cold winter mornings?On cold winter mornings, I have quinoa porridge made with hemp milk and rice syrup. (It's delicious, vegan and healthy!)
We hardly ever use the word in American English.I see the American definition is broader: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/porridge
Among the small minority of Americans who eat it, kasha is (I think) the usual word for buckwheat porridge.Very interesting, indeed! It looks as if you don't cook this meal. Or do you? And buckwheat porridge (if I can call it that) isn't very common either, right? (By the way, I've found a possible synonym for "buckwheat porridge" ("kasha"). Surprisingly, in Russian, "kasha" refers to "porridge" in its broader sense. )
Very interesting, indeed! It looks as if you don't cook this meal. Or do you? And buckwheat porridge (if I can call it that) isn't very common either, right? (By the way, I've found a possible synonym for "buckwheat porridge" ("kasha"). Surprisingly, in Russian, "kasha" refers to "porridge" in its broader sense. )
Specifically, grits are made from hominy, which is dried corn/maize with the skin removed from the kernels by soaking them in a strong alkali solution. The Mexicans or South Americans who invented it (long before Columbus's voyages) had no way to know this, but this processing also liberates niacin, making hominy much more valuable nutritionally.In the south, there is "grits," made from corn/maize.
(Collins)gru•el
n.]
- a thin cooked cereal made by boiling meal, esp. oatmeal, in water or milk.
I didn't know this old dictionary definition, and, I must confess, it's now challenging the stereotype in me which many other Russophones have after watching "The Hound of the Baskervilles" film. The characters often ate porridge (oatmeal) in the film, maybe too often... Anyway, a myth was born that the English always (or often, at least) have (or had in the past) oatmeal for breakfast. Whether it's a myth or not I don't know, but the mentioned dictionary definition hints it is.And know very well that oats are a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.