{"id":6115,"date":"2012-01-26T19:59:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T00:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.relishments.com\/blog\/?p=6115"},"modified":"2020-08-08T15:47:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T19:47:25","slug":"overwhelmed-by-oats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.relishments.com\/blog\/overwhelmed-by-oats\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwhelmed by Oats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last fall I discovered the Whole Grain Council\u2019s \u201cgrain of the month<\/a>\u201d calendar and will be trying out a new grain each month, just because I needed to add another goal to my life.<\/em><\/p>\n

I was really glad when I saw that January\u2019s grain was oats.\u00a0 I\u2019m familiar with oats.\u00a0 I like oats.\u00a0 I already had oats in my pantry.\u00a0 Before long, however, I was inundated with ideas.\u00a0 There\u2019s an overwhelming number of things that can be made with oats.\u00a0 A quick search of my Evernote account yields 67 results.<\/p>\n

The first, obvious, use for oats was oatmeal, but I\u2019m not really going to spend much time on that.\u00a0 It\u2019s warm, it\u2019s delicious, it makes a great breakfast (I prefer mine with cranberries and walnuts.)\u00a0 I think that\u2019s all I really need to say, though Holly just posted her 10 top bowls of oatmeal<\/a>, if you need more ideas.<\/p>\n

\"granola<\/a><\/p>\n

The next natural progression was granola bars.\u00a0 I intended to test drive several different recipes for this post, but for whatever reason, the past couple weeks have been sort of nuts.\u00a0 I did manage to make a batch of bars using this recipe from Good Housekeeping<\/a>.\u00a0 I adapted them and used my favorite egg substitute<\/a> instead of eggs, because I think putting eggs in granola bars is strange.\u00a0 I like the recipe because it\u2019s fairly low in sugar and the ingredients list is short.\u00a0 The resulting granola bars were a little crumbly, but delicious and a perfect on-the-go breakfast.<\/p>\n

\"oat<\/a><\/p>\n

This month\u2019s challenge seemed like the perfect time to try out the oat bread recipe<\/a> I\u2019d been putting off.\u00a0 Like most bread recipes, it took several hours to complete the loaf, but most of that time was unattended.\u00a0 Unable to find oat flour, I ground some oats in my mini-blender and they worked perfectly fine.\u00a0 I was thrilled with the way the final product looked and even happier with the taste.\u00a0 Given the relatively low effort required and the great taste, I\u2019ve already made plans to make this one again.<\/p>\n

\"bean<\/a><\/p>\n

Early in my ponderings about how to best utilize oats, veggie burgers came to mind.\u00a0 Obviously, oats aren\u2019t the main ingredient, but a lot of the recipes I have contain them.\u00a0 I decided to make a\u00a0 really simple burger without a recipe and they turned out surprisingly well, given my history of homemade burger failure.\u00a0 Brian said they were the best burgers I\u2019ve made so far, so I guess this one\u2019s a keeper!<\/p>\n

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