How to Use porridge in a Sentence

porridge

noun

• Think veal tongue stewed in cherry and morel sauce, or spelt wheat porridge with omul caviar and smoked sour cream.
  — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2016
• Without bees our diets would consist of bread, rice, and porridge.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 21 May 2015
• Vegan and gluten-free, the muffin was more like quinoa-banana-coconut oil porridge bound with flax.
  — Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit, 20 Mar. 2017
• The West African grain can be used for soups and baking, in porridge or as a starch like polenta.
  — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2017
• Fresh seafood abounds, while heartier Kenyan dishes, such as ugali (a corn porridge), consist mainly of maize and potatoes.
  — Darlene Molnar, ELLE Decor, 15 Jan. 2010
• Investors are rewarding favorite tech outfits for placing all that porridge on the table.
  — David Lazarus, WIRED, 26 Apr. 1999
• Few, if any, other Sacramento-area restaurants make bisi bele bath ($11), a rice porridge from the state of Karnataka.
  — Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 10 July 2024
• There were heaping dishes of japchae noodles, pumpkin porridge, and rice, as well as squash, cucumber, and cabbage kimchi, all prepared by Heidi.
  — Emma Allen, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
• In this zone, planets are at a distance from their suns that makes them, like the porridge Goldilocks chooses, just right—neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water, a requirement for life.
  — Paul Raeburn, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2011
• Small details about the circumstances of her questioning have leaked — she had gimbap (seaweed rice rolls) and tofu balls for lunch and rice porridge for dinner — but little about the case had emerged until Monday.
  — Matt Stiles, latimes.com, 26 Mar. 2017
• Most of the work for the congee can be done ahead, like making the porridge base.
  — Magdalena O'Neal, Sunset Magazine, 28 Dec. 2021
• Turn off the hob and leave the porridge to infuse for about 5 minutes.
  — Anna Bader, Glamour, 15 Mar. 2024
• Teff can be cooked as a side dish or used to make porridge or bread.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
• The prison guards brought her a milky porridge with a piece of oily fish that sickened her.
  — J Wortham, New York Times, 2 May 2024
• One bowl of porridge is too cold, one bowl is too hot, and one bowl is just right.
  — Michael Beller, SI.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• Goldilocks opens the door and goes in helping herself to three bowls of porridge.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 6 June 2018
• The children leave a bowl of porridge for the gnome, and in return, the julenisse brings presents to their front door.
  — Samantha Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Nov. 2022
• The bones are grilled and used to make a stock with kombu, ginger and scallion for the porridge.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• Stevenson liked to start the day with black coffee and porridge.
  — Edmund Vallance, latimes.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• Boil the frozen rice for just 20 minutes, instead of the full hour, to achieve the same porridge-like texture.
  — G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 19 May 2022
• Even when refugees could cook, the food was limited to porridge, corn and salt.
  — Magdalena Del Valle, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
• At one point, 4-year-old Elle likened the approach to Goldilocks searching for just the right bed, chair and bowl of porridge in the home of three bears.
  — Mike Dunne, sacbee, 25 Apr. 2018
• Lily has three versions of chao, Vietnamese rice porridge, on the menu.
  — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• The same goes for her rice paper egg rolls and chicken porridge videos.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Queen Elizabeth is as bland and cold as a dish of old porridge.
  — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• Adding baobab fruit is a common way the porridge is dressed up for the occasion.
  — Manal Aman, Woman's Day, 27 Feb. 2023
• The finished eggs will look a little like golden porridge and the small curds will melt in your mouth.
  — Karoline Boehm Goodnick, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• The porridge, smoky and studded with meatballs, remains the same.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2019
• In Bucko’s slight Polish accent, the last word rhymed with porridge.
  — Fred Bahnson, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• So was the food court, our usual stop for porridge from Tasty Congee and soy sauce chicken wings from Tsui Wah.
  — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024