| Creative oatmeal dishes? Unusual but tasty combinations?
Posted: 7/8/2008 4:07:23 PM | I have a tub of oatmeal, and not much else. I do have a ton of spices though but many of them are old. Can anyone think of something creative to make with it? I'm hoping people have thought of something other than oatmeal with fruit (have none), or oatmeal with sugar, or things of that nature.
Spices:
paprika
steak seasoning
other meat seasoning
garlic salt
Chile powder
oregano, majorim, the one that is similar but can't remember what it's called
and other various spices
Fridge:
condiments(mayo, ketchup, mustard, salad dressing, etc.)
butter
cream cheese
pepper jack cheese
meatballs of questionable status
Pantry:
flower
sugar
tea
These are the things I have right now. My lack of food is more a timing issue (I haven't gone food shopping for a while), So if you think of something with ingredients I don't have, I'm overdue for a trip to the supermarket anyways. | |
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| Creative oatmeal dishes? Unusual but tasty combinations?
Posted: 7/8/2008 4:54:53 PM | | I eat oatmeal most weekdays. For what you have available now, butter and sugar will help, also cinnamon if you have any in your spice rack. If you're going shopping I like to add dried fruit (usually tropical mix), sometimes honey and maybe a little butter. | |
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| Creative oatmeal dishes? Unusual but tasty combinations?
Posted: 7/8/2008 6:19:53 PM |
I suggest that you load it up with garlic, ketchup, and mustard...
Add to that some chili powder and mayo.....
Seriously, get some cookies going. Chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, oatmeal raisin, use them in pancakes. Tahini cookies with oatmeal in them.
Make oatmeal for breakfast and put dinosaur sprinkles on it or anything to make it festive.
Take an oatmeal bath if you want to feel beautiful.
But maybe the best thing you could do with them is to donate them to a shelter or food pantry. Or make a huge batch of cookies and bring them to the office or school or a friends potluck.
Whenever I overstock my pantry, I give food away to others in need.
Question for the OP: How did you end up with a ton of oatmeal?  | |
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| Creative oatmeal dishes? Unusual but tasty combinations?
Posted: 7/8/2008 7:23:02 PM | Savoury Add-A-Crunch
2 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese
1/3 cup finely chopped nuts
1/4 tsp. garlic salt
Combine all ingredients; mix well; spread on ungreased shallow baking sheet. Bake at 350°F for 15-16 minutes or until golden brown. Cool, place in jar, cover and store in refrigerator.
Note: Sprinkle over tossed green salads, soups, casseroles, cooked vegetables, stuffed tomatoes or cold meat salads. Top muffins, rolls or breads before baking. Add to meatloaf or hamburgers.
Casserole Add-A-Crunch
2 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/2 tsp. onion salt
Combine all ingredients, mix well. Place in jar, cover and store in refrigerator.
Note: Sprinkle mixture over creamed casseroles, i.e. tuna; bake according to casserole directions. Mixture will brown properly on casseroles baked at 350°F for 50-60 minutes or 375°F for 30-40 minutes.,
Over-browning may occur during longer baking times; for casseroles baked 15 minutes or less, use Savoury or Herbed mixtures.
Herbed Add-A-Crunch
2 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/2 tsp. onion salt
1 tsp. crushed oregano leaves
1/2 tsp. crushed thyme leaves
Combine all ingredients; mix well. Spread on ungreased baking sheet; bake at 350°F for 15-18 minutes or until golden brown. Cool, place in jar; cover and store in refrigerator.
Note: use in the same manner as Savoury.
Cinnamon Add-A-Crunch
1-1/4 cups rolled oats
1/3 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1/3 cup butter, melted
1/3 cup chopped nuts
1/4 tsp. cinnamon, or to taste
Combine all ingredients; mix well. Place mixture in large skillet, gently cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, for 5 minutes or until golden brown. Cool, place in jar; cover and store in refrigerator.
Note: Use as topping on ice cream, yogurt, fruits, puddings, fruit crisps, muffins, cakes and single crust pies.
Note: All Add-A-Crunch mixtures can be stored up to 2 months in refrigerator. All recipes make approximately 2 cups of mixture. | |
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| Creative oatmeal dishes? Unusual but tasty combinations?
Posted: 7/8/2008 7:38:39 PM | the add a crunch recipes sound good. I'm trying something along that line. could be awful, but what i'm doing is:
boiled some oatmeal with hotsauce (tapatio), garlic salt, and a little parika.
It's baking now.
I might throw a little cheese on top if it looks edible just before it finishes baking
I'll let you all know how it went when it's done | |
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| Creative oatmeal dishes? Unusual but tasty combinations?
Posted: 7/8/2008 7:44:42 PM | (the reason I have a bunch of oatmeal)
I used up all the groceries in the house that I was willing to eat, and realized there was some food that was going bad, so i ended up making a project of cleaning the whole kitchen. In the process I found a tub of oatmeal that I'm guessing my brother left here about 1 & 1/2 years ago when I helped him move. It didn't have bugs and didn't seem stale.
What are the bugs called that eat flour and pasta?
I found a lot of them while cleaning | |
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| Creative oatmeal dishes? Unusual but tasty combinations?
Posted: 7/8/2008 8:30:58 PM | Granary and Rice Weevels
The rice weevil and granary weevil are pests of stored grain and seeds. They develop inside whole grain kernels as small, white, wrinkled, grub-like larvae. There is generally no external evidence that the larvae have been eating and growing inside the seed until after about one month when the adult weevil chews through the seed coat and emerges. The adult weevils are 1/8th inch long and have slender, hard-shelled bodies that appear pitted or scarred with tiny holes. They are brown to reddish brown in color. The rice weevil has four faint yellowish spots on the back of the abdomen. The granary weevil is uniformly colored with no spots.
Presence of rice or granary weevils inside the home usually indicates there is infested whole grain or seeds. This may be food seeds or beans in the cupboards, popcorn, saved garden seeds, dried seed decorations, decorative Indian corn, "bean bags," old grain-based mouse bait, or other stored seeds.
Rice and granary weevils are harmless to people, houses, furniture, clothing and pets. They cannot bite or sting and they do not carry diseases. They will not feed on furniture, the house structure or other items. The harm they do is destruction of the seeds they infest and the annoyance of being in the wrong place.
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2088.html | |
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| Creative oatmeal dishes? Unusual but tasty combinations?
Posted: 7/8/2008 9:09:12 PM | Just finished the baked oatmeal. (boiled, then baked)
Results:
hot sauce is a mistake. don't add hot sauce, it just tastes like vinegar
the outside is chewy/crunchy, inside moist
seems like it would make good breading for something (without the hot sauce)
might be good with some fruit in it | |
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| Creative oatmeal dishes? Unusual but tasty combinations?
Posted: 7/8/2008 9:28:15 PM |
Yes, but I would have thought that you'd surely add a recipe for dem weevils, Classic!
Hun, you just gotta ask and I'll see what I have. Know I've got a book here someplace on how to cook different insects. Will take a look and see if I can find you a recipe.
Tip to get rid of the bugs ... put a dried chili pepper or a bay leaf into the jars or other containers that hold your grains, beans, and legumes to help repel insects from nesting in your dried edibles. | |
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| Creative oatmeal dishes? Unusual but tasty combinations?
Posted: 7/9/2008 1:46:57 AM | I like to start my day with a hot bowl of Quaker oats......yes the brand is very important for my recipe.
Add one bottle of George Killians Irish Red beer to it......if it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger! | |
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| Creative oatmeal dishes? Unusual but tasty combinations?
Posted: 7/9/2008 2:29:42 AM | Oatmeal eaten once a day reduces cholesterol and risk of colon cancer as a good source of soluble fibre... The larger the flake the better. The 'Instant' oatmeal doesn't keep the blood sugar under control like the less processed vareity. It also makes for nice poo.
I often eat my oatmeal raw with some nuts, ground flax, sesame seeds, almonds, dried fruit, and yougurt or milk. My breastfeeding counsellor lets hers soak in water over night and then nukes it in the morning.... my luck, I'd find it growing something but it wouldn't be weavels. I just eat it raw.
Although I have been known to mix up the musli ahead of time and put it into a sealed jar but don't add the flax till the day you eat it. Ground flax can go rancid quickly and for certain in your cupboard so it is best left in the freezer.
Granola, purchased as is, or homemade is very high in fat and sugar... and as you experiment with toasting oatmeal into granola, you will notice that you do have to add a fair amount of the these less healthful ingredients to give a comparable flavour to the store bought variety. When I use granola, I stretch it with raw oatmeal or sprinkle it on top of a cold cereal or yougurt and fruit... delicious and healthy!
But hey... I admit when Old Mother's Hubbord's cupboard is Bare, there is nothing like a warm bowl of oatmeal with a little bit of brown sugar on top to fill you up... totally been there! | |
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| Creative oatmeal dishes? Unusual but tasty combinations?
Posted: 7/9/2008 5:06:29 AM | Wow, get to the store and FAST! Especially since the prices are going up every day!
I don't care for Oatmeal, personally, BUT.....I absolutely LOVE baked oatmeal! Use any combination of flaked coconut, chopped nuts, raisens or dates (or ALL of them). Combine desired and recommended amount of Oatmeal and water, according to the recipe.....it's usually 1 part oatmeal and 3 parts water (or milk). Add the salt and the above goodies and pour into a greased baking dish. The amounts of the above will depend on how many of them you chose and what you like. Bake at 350* until bubbly throughout.....possibly 1/2 hour or so. This is good enough to be dessert! Refrigerate left overs and slice and fry in butter to reheat....Y-U-M-M-Y!
Also, you can use a SMALL amount of oatmeal to thicken soups.
I make 'oat flour' by whizzing it in the blender and I use it as part of my flour requirement when I make cookies (up to 1/2 and 1/2). Gives the cookies a delicious nut like flavor, but doesn't freak people out that say they don't like 'oatmeal' cookies.
I also make an 'Oatmeal' pattie........1 cup Oatmeal, 1 small chopped onion, 1 egg, 1/2 CAN of mushroom, celery or cream of chicken soup, 1/2 cup chopped nuts, and 1 teaspoon chicken style seasoning and a pinch of sage. Can also add a SMALL amount of finely chopped celery for moistness and texture. Drop by spoonsful into lightly oiled frying pan over medium heat, flipping as they turn brown. Serve with condiments (ketchup or mayo, according to your taste).
Good luck and keep us posted on your experiments ~ | |
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