Anyway, I've been trying to use up my latest really large bag of oats, so one night last week I used oats in both dinner and dessert, and I was very pleased with myself!
For dinner I made these absolutely delicious pecan and walnut balls, which I served with a cherry tomato sauce. I mostly followed this recipe for the balls, modifying a little bit here and there, and I did also skip the gluten flour. These were really tasty, they were a little time consuming but absolutely worth it, they were so good. Also they used up a cup of oats.
The cherry tomato sauce was awesome, I made my usual nepolitana sauce, and in the last three or four minutes of cooking I added about a dozen or so cherry tomato halves. They wilted slightly in the heat, but not enough to start cooking, and it was a great complement to the pecan and walnut balls. A++ will cook again!
For dessert I tried out this apple and pear crumble. I changed the proportions a little bit, and served it with some warm custard. And it used up more oats!
7 comments:
I love using oats just the ways you have - and also love to bake with them - those balls look most delish
Johanna, they're super delish :o) I definitely want to cook them again.
Oooh, crumble. How can it be that I still haven't made any this winter?!
Mmm those walnut pecan balls look fantastic! I haven't made nearly enough faux meatball recipes. I tried one made from seitan just after going vegetarian and it wasn't the greatest and I got scared to ever make them again, but your photo of those is making me think I need to!
Fantastic crumble too! Yum!
drossolalia, I'd never made crumble before this! I don't tend to be much of a winter desserts person, but now I want to try some more!
vegetation, I feel the same, except I've been obsessed with the idea of some sort of fauxball even though I hadn't tried one since failure, and it was a pleasure to find this one worked so well! Wow that was a run-on sentence.
Yum, that pasta dish looks great. I'll have to try those oat / walnut balls sometime.
I've never thought of using oats in main meals/savouries, but it makes so much sense! Those oaty pasta balls look fanatstic.
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