All the Blue Day

Winter has well and truly begun, and while I am not generally a breakfast person, there is nothing like a belly full of warm, creamy porridge on a cold morning. I do not have a microwave, so I make porridge like my grannies did, on the stove, with locally grown rolled oats.
This porridge begins the night before when I soak the oats overnight. I add half a cup of water and half a cup of milk to half a cup of oats. So easy to remember! My kind of recipe. This is the amount for one person. I soak it in my bowl, in the fridge, with a plate inverted on the top.
In the morning I pour the whole lot into a small saucepan and add a quarter teaspoon of cinnamon. I warm it slowly and stir it constantly until it is the consistency I prefer. Creamy, not too dry. This takes all of five minutes. It doesn't take much cooking because of the long soaking, and the soaking also makes the oats more digestible.
Then pour it back into my bowl and top it with fruit. This week, stewed greengages that I p…