I liked the way the dried
fruits plump up and adds natural sweetness to the oats without any added sugars.
Also, if using dried fruit, put it in before microwaving so that
the fruit plumps up.
Not exact matches
I have also done it using dried
fruits which
plump up wonderfully.
I think it would be great with dried
fruit, too, if you soak it to
plump it
up beforehand.
Carrots are here to stay for the season, firmly rooted in the refrigerator drawers with their best friends: potatoes, turnips, parsnips, kohlrabi, beets, celeriac, watermelon radishes and other bulbous shapes that
plump up in the dark, loamy depths of the soil while we're feasting on above - ground greens and
fruits.
First, soak your
fruit in 1 - 2 tbsp boiling water, add in your spices and leave to sit for ~ 10 or so minutes to soften and
plump up.
Soaking the apricots is an excellent method to
plump up the
fruit into soft juicy bursts of sweetness.
Sometimes, I'll throw in some dried
fruit with the oats overnight so that they
plump up the next day.
Be wary of packages with beautiful illustrations of
plump fresh veggies and
fruits, but the veggies and
fruits actually appear toward the very end of the ingredient list — this means they don't actually make
up much of the final recipe.
Ania and I went to buy bread and in one block's distance we saw about 15 tales of insanity, drug abuse and poverty: a homeless man with one leg shooting
up on the pavement; an old women dragging 50 filthy plastic bags, vomiting into the sewer grate; five tranny hookers sitting in a hotel stairwell, wearing nothing but g - strings, making cat calls at the passing traffic; a crackhead walking in circles, talking out loud to no one in front of a
fruit stand; little boys, none older than 11, all huffing shoe glue out of black plastic bags to get a 10 - minute high; and a group of
plump ladies sorting through garbage in the street, looking for old produce that can be re-bagged and re-sold at discount prices.
Stollen can be made as bare or as elaborate as the budget permits, having only raisins in during lean years and being
plumped up with
fruits of all description in the fat years.