you can't eat raw oats and you can't eat raw rice. You add water to both. Oatmeal becomes porridge by default. Rice becomes rice. If I knew how to give oats the texture of rice, I'd do it.
@M. Verdone yeah, I thought you were talking about the general category of rice congees
I don't think I've ever had Cantonese style congee for a comparison (but I've had Japanese style savoury congees and they weren't that bad)
Also, right now I'm having something like a pasta congee in vegetable puree, and let's just say this wasn't exactly *planned* :D (there was some re-heating involved), but I'd say it's still edible :D
some really delicious Cantonese breakfast food is congee with bits of meat and veggies and mushrooms, that all add a lot of flavour. Very warm and savoury.
You could eat it all dry of course, but the same could be said of any soup.
it just sounds like you don't like mushy things. But lots of people find that really nice, especially if it's a nostalgic flavor profile.
This week I'm eating through a giant pot of split pea curry which is also mush. Also deeply delicious especially when it's cold outside and the thick mush is warm and savory. But I like mush! I also like rice.
But your question feels a bit like "why make bread if you could make crepes instead?" It's just different! Sometimes you want one, sometimes the other, and some folks just can't stand one of the two or either.
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in reply to M. Verdone • • •Have you ever tried buying whole oats and boil them? I think you would be surprised about the result.
(I'm being serious. I am regularly boiling whole oats as a fiber rich rice alternative with less Arsenic)
M. Verdone
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in reply to M. Verdone • • •Also "you can't eat raw oats"? That's news to me too.
Raw rice: Not so great, agreed.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to M. Verdone • •@M. Verdone because comfy food from my childhood!
(admittely, said comfy food is rice boiled in *milk* until soft as a congee, with added sugar or honey or other sugar-rich substance)
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M. Verdone
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to M. Verdone • •@M. Verdone yeah, I thought you were talking about the general category of rice congees
I don't think I've ever had Cantonese style congee for a comparison (but I've had Japanese style savoury congees and they weren't that bad)
Also, right now I'm having something like a pasta congee in vegetable puree, and let's just say this wasn't exactly *planned* :D (there was some re-heating involved), but I'd say it's still edible :D
M. Verdone
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to M. Verdone • •@M. Verdone cursed ++ (it was leftover soup that had been re-heated one time too many)
the taste was that of the season vegetables soup, however, so it was still good :)
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OliverUv
in reply to M. Verdone • • •some really delicious Cantonese breakfast food is congee with bits of meat and veggies and mushrooms, that all add a lot of flavour. Very warm and savoury.
You could eat it all dry of course, but the same could be said of any soup.
discontinuity
in reply to M. Verdone • • •it just sounds like you don't like mushy things. But lots of people find that really nice, especially if it's a nostalgic flavor profile.
This week I'm eating through a giant pot of split pea curry which is also mush. Also deeply delicious especially when it's cold outside and the thick mush is warm and savory. But I like mush! I also like rice.
But your question feels a bit like "why make bread if you could make crepes instead?" It's just different! Sometimes you want one, sometimes the other, and some folks just can't stand one of the two or either.