Ah, porridge. That old reliable breakfast staple. It's cheap, it's filling, and, if prepared properly, it can be truly delicious. While oats are the favored porridge grain in most Western ...

Porridge makes me think of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Peas Porridge and other children's stories, but there's a lot more to it than what was dished out in those nursery rhymes. I grew up with ...

Properties: As a porridge made from rice and/or other grains, sometimes with added flavorings and sides, the dish takes on the properties of the sum of its ingredients. Uses: In many cultures, Jook is ...

Chef Melissa King has a particularly soft spot for congee (or jook, the Cantonese name for the iconic rice porridge). “It’s like your Chinese chicken noodle soup — it was always cozy and comforting, ...

Simple? Check. Comforting? Check. Affordable? Mostly, yes. Ranging across different cultures (think jook, mui or kiam buay), this versatile dish is highly underrated and regarded as bland and even, ...

It's officially cold season again, a time when stuffy heads and runny noses send us searching for solace in the soothing comfort foods we grew up with — usually something warm, starchy and easy to ...

For Asian Americans, congee is often comfort food when you're sick. As the child of a Filipino immigrant, I ate congee that my mother prepared when I couldn't keep down anything else. It was a plain ...

I don’t normally share my dreams for fear of armchair Freudian shrinks potentially mangling my unconscious, nocturnal frolics and misinterpreting them into something sinister or kinky. But this ...