easy porridge

I used to buy the Pigeon powdered cream soup to prepare easy soup for Princess. I have now discovered another use for this.

I add two satchets of the powdered cream soup to the porridge that I cook for Princess. It gives flavour to the porridge. Before you gasp in horror... no worries - according to the packaging on the box, there are no artificial flavouring, etc (read: "MSG"?) added.

I have a Takahi porridge cum rice cooker that I use to cook porridge for Princess. What I like about this is that there are two porridge buttons - regular porridge and baby porridge. My guess is that if I select "baby porridge", the cooking time is longer?

INGREDIENTS

500ml water or stock - I boil my own stock using assorted vegetables, meat and fish

2 tbsp rice - I use a mixture of white rice and brown rice as Princess is not used to totally brown rice yet

2 satchets Pigeon powdered cream soup

1/2 carrot - cut into tiny pieces

1/2 stick celery - cut into tiny pieces

1 dried Shitake mushroom - soaked till soft and cut into tiny pieces

1 piece pork rib - this is not to be eaten - I add the pork rib to give additional flavour to the porridge

light sauce - to taste

METHOD

1. Add all the ingredients together (except the light sauce) and cook the porridge.

2. Stir the porridge every now and then and add more water/stock if need be.

3. When the porridge is about done and you have the desired consistency, taste the porridge and add a little light sauce (to taste) if required.