Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

silvercar

Add muesli to crumble topping to make it more interesting.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Cheapest oats are fine.

You can make muesli with any combination you like,.

I was looking for what to use in the flapjacks... not to make muesli. Wondered if that'd work, if that were oats.


It's an alien world to me - we never had porridge at home, so it was the first time I'd ever tried to buy any.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Tahini views everyone!

I hate tahini, but love homous. Tahini is made from ground sesame seeds and homous from ground chick peas. I even have homous with falafel, so really fried chickpeas with ground chickpeas.

I make houmous with tahini. I don't think I've read a recipe for houmous without tahini....( will be scurrying off to find a tahini less houmous soon to compare). But I love tahini. I also make dips with beans and tahini, instead of chickpeas and tahini.

But yes, felafel needs houmous (but the tahini in the houmous I think probably adds a dimension, like the crispness of the falafel does)

PasturesNew

I have some houmous recipes without tahini.

What happened was I decided I'd make a dip for a Xmas Buffet (for Boxing Day/days after) .... and I bought the tahini and some chick peas. Then, when it came to it, there were big arguments and nobody wanted a buffet, or anything else anybody was interested in or going to do .... (as usual in our family as nobody eats/likes anything the others do) .... so I never made the dip.

Couldn't make the dip myself then eat the lot ..... so it never happened.

bugslet

There is a lovely recipe in Hugh FWs veggie book with a tahini dressing and you can mix tahini with yogurt, olive oil and lemon to make a salad dressing. Love the stuff!:)

tomterm8

Tesco value rolled oats at 75p a kilo are what we use for flapjacks, and it makes very nice porridge too.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was looking for what to use in the flapjacks... not to make muesli. Wondered if that'd work, if that were oats.


It's an alien world to me - we never had porridge at home, so it was the first time I'd ever tried to buy any.

Yes, you could. Cheap oats and buying fruit separately would be cheaper though.:D

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have some houmous recipes without tahini.

What happened was I decided I'd make a dip for a Xmas Buffet (for Boxing Day/days after) .... and I bought the tahini and some chick peas. Then, when it came to it, there were big arguments and nobody wanted a buffet, or anything else anybody was interested in or going to do .... (as usual in our family as nobody eats/likes anything the others do) .... so I never made the dip.

Couldn't make the dip myself then eat the lot ..... so it never happened.

How does one get the gloopiness of the houmous without tahini? Oliv oil and lemon juice a lone?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes, you could. Cheap oats and buying fruit separately would be cheaper though.:D

Only if you're feeding the 5000. I'd have literally needed to have about 1/4 of an apple, 2 tablespoons of sultanas/raisins, few cranberries.... so had to buy more than I needed for an experiment.... then been left over with stuff I had to use up.

I did buy a pack of dried cranberries once, planning to make a cranberry loaf, that never happened - and threw that out when it went out of date.

Ingredients tend to mean a massive commitment to using up a huge amount of stuff that's never entered the house before.... and/or more bizarre food cooking of stuff I don't really want, just to use stuff up that I never intended to have in stock.

Buying one box of Dorset cereals when it was on offer (and comparable in price to cheap oats) worked out best as I could try out the flapjack recipe with minimal wastage overall.

At the time, too, I only had one small wall cupboard for food to be stored in.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

How does one get the gloopiness of the houmous without tahini? Oliv oil and lemon juice a lone?

No idea, I've never used tahini and never made houmous

In fact, I've only ever bought a pot of houmous once.....