normally, food that looks great in person will look weird or bad or strange when you take a photo of it with your phone, but in this case my phone camera has accurately captured how unappetising this looked.
but
it tastes good! weird but good! i seasoned it with a historical recipe for powder douce, a mix of ginger, cloves, grains of paradise and cinnamon. the savoury oats and vegetables mixed with spices that to our modern palate are "sweet" is a very weird combination, but i think it captures really well how different medieval food is from ours. recipe below if you want it
recipe
i chopped up some cloves of garlic, an onion, a shallot and a leek, then fried them in olive oil with some salt until they were soft. then i added some sliced mushrooms, and once everything was fried nicely, i added some more salt, black pepper, and apple cider vinegar. then i started adding water to get the amount i wanted, then added some carrots chopped up into batons. after letting it simmer for a while until the carrots were soft, i started adding porridge oats, then let it simmer with the lid closed until the oats had cooked. then i added the powder douce from this recipe, though i skipped the sugar and substituted cardamom and black pepper for the grains of paradise, since i have never seen grains of paradise for sale anywhere. i served it with some crumbled-up mature cheddar stirred in, so it made nice cheesy globs.