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    1 year ago

    You can make porridge with flour and water. Even better if you have interesting flours you bought in a moment of excitement but never figured out what to do with. Butter and salt help the palatability.

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      1 year ago

      Damn, I’m hungry now. Having scales handy helps things happen predictably and quickly.

      Photo of a deep bowl ~450ml capacity, with cold water, yellow butter, and red sorghum flour dumped in. Not mixed together yet. There's a few patches of frothy sorghum that mixed with the water already.

      1. Stir in a bowl: 50g red sorghum flour + 250g water + butter + salt.
      2. Microwave on high for 2 mins, then stir.
      3. Microwave on very low for 5 mins, then stir.
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        1 year ago

        Bowl of cooked sorghum porridge. Reddish-brown colour, a bit lumpy but otherwise smooth. Glistening in the light. Eating spoon sitting in it.

        Done. It was a little bitter, but that’s just the flavour of the grain. It’s satisfyingly nutritious without being full of sugar to mess with my teeth or give me a sugar crash. It’ll keep me going for a few hours now.

        If I’m smart, with my new-found energy I’ll now set about making a proper big meal with vegetables and more substantial proteins with plenty of leftovers to fridge for the coming food crises of tomorrow and the next day and the day after. I might make a biryani. Oh but I should really do my assignments. I really shouldn’t open any more tabs.