porridge
a food made of oatmeal, or some other meal or cereal, boiled to a thick consistency in water or milk.
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- por·ridge·like, adjective
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How to use porridge in a sentence
In powder form, it has a mild, nutty flavor and is best used like a protein boost, sprinkled over porridge, stirred into a vegetarian chili or folded into banana bread batter.
They're Healthy. They're Sustainable. So Why Don't Humans Eat More Bugs? | Aryn Baker | February 26, 2021 | TimeI tried out the book’s recipe for turkey jook, a rice porridge made with turkey stock, which I’d never made before but had eyed over the years.
Many of their traditional foods, such as tortillas and pancake-like chorreadas, were adapted by the wider population, while the use of porridges and drinks made from maíz pujagua, or purple corn, are more isolated.
Almost everyone who has won has used steel-cut oats and soaked the porridge overnight.
Per Carlsson of Sweden snagged the 2017 specialty win with a cloudberry-liqueur porridge brulee.
I went to get a bag of horse manure and I make it liquid, like a porridge, and then ... bam!
There, they were presented with 40 crockpots of porridge; stacks of raisins, and piles of spoons.
Two years later, a repentant Uma wore skin-tight Versace in a meek porridge hue.
"Then I'll catch it," I said, laughing at his discomfiture, for I knew he loathed stirring porridge.
Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon Blackwoodporridge is a food which satisfies and strengthens, and which, it seems, is rich in bone-forming matter.
Friend Mac Donald | Max O'RellThe room was full of healthy-looking workmen, tidily dressed and busily doing honour to the porridge and other items on the menu.
Friend Mac Donald | Max O'RellRobert Burns, who has sung of the haggis and the whisky of his native land, has only made indirect mention of porridge.
Friend Mac Donald | Max O'RellA very small bit of this chestnut grated into a kettle would make a potful of porridge.
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children | Mabel Powers
British Dictionary definitions for porridge
/ (ˈpɒrɪdʒ) /
a dish made from oatmeal or another cereal, cooked in water or milk to a thick consistency
slang a term in prison (esp in the phrase do porridge)
Origin of porridge
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