Using up oranges

moggins

Oops sorry, the parents arrived and then I had to run into town to find a dress to wear tomorrow

Glad you got sorted though.

Glad

there was a recipe here somewhere for making marmalade from satsumas

squeaky

yep... here you go... Click Here just substitute as required

justin138

I've got eight oranges which are about to turn if we don't eat them quick. Burger all left to put them with except apples, so can't just do a quickie salad.

Any ideas what I can do with them? I know we won't eat them as they are, and don't want to chuck them out.

I'd prefer to cook them really, as they're a bit soft, but haven't any recipes.

tooting_jane

Juice them and drink or make frozen orange juice lollies. Or freeze the juice to use later e.g. chicken in orange sauce or something.

justin138

Oops, forgot to mention - we're both vegans! I DO have some ginger nut biscuits - something in the back of my mind says they'd go well with oranges - but WHAT?

squeaky

Three threads that might help, though for one of them you'd have to juice your oranges first

[post=874556] - Orange juice - frozen, any ideas?[/post]

[post=369388] - Orange peels - what do do with them[/post]

[post=502543] - Oranges - 12 organic oranges, any ideas[/post]

DawnW

justin138 wrote:

I've got eight oranges which are about to turn if we don't eat them quick. Burger all left to put them with except apples, so can't just do a quickie salad.

Any ideas what I can do with them? I know we won't eat them as they are, and don't want to chuck them out.

I'd prefer to cook them really, as they're a bit soft, but haven't any recipes.

You could make lovely orange juice for breakfast tomorrow (keep in fridge overnight), or marmalade if you are feeling adventurous? Just use any old marmalade recipe, doesn't matter if it says 'seville' oranges, ordinary ones work as well.

justin138

Well, being as I needed dessert today, this is what I came up with:

6 ginger biscuits in the bottoms of a dish.
3 oranges peeled and shredded, mixed with a tbs of sugar, heated through, then added a teaspoon of "egg replacer" to make it thicken (could use cornflour I guess), then spread over the biccies. Custard, made with soya cream dolloped on the top of that.

I thought it delishus, Justin said it was OK, but he now tells me he doesn't like "hot" oranges. Ho hum. Going to send him to work with 2 tomorrow for lunch (being as he bought them and hasn't eaten them).

Thanks to everyone for their replies, it gave me the impetus to think of a use for them.

kabie

I have 5 oranges that are getting past their best; not that tasty to eat as they are, but do I have to throw them away or is there something I could do to them to make them tastier?
They're not exactly "off" just not their best.