This Creamy Fall Orzo Will Please Anyone Who Loves a Cozy Porridge
The New York Times
This hearty, meatless meal from Melissa Clark is full of tender pasta, butternut squash and lots of warming brown butter — just the thing for a blustery evening.
Maybe it’s a symptom of having read too many 19th-century British novels, but, to me, a steaming bowl of porridge, speckled with nuggets of melting butter and crunchy flakes of salt, is possibly the most comforting meal I could curl up with on a blustery, gray evening. It should be sustaining enough for any heroine before she treads across the heath: thick and very savory, bearing little resemblance to anything sugared, cinnamon-topped and breakfast-appropriate.
The only problem with this vision is getting the other members of my household to partake. Dinner porridge isn’t for everyone.
Which is why I’m apt to disguise it.
