Here are a few simple tips for making Dashing Dish recipes with ease!
Use foil or silicone muffin liners when preparing muffins or baked goods and spray with cooking spray. The muffins pop out of the liners without sticking. I do not recommend using paper liners because the batter tends to stick to them.
Refrigerate Dashing Dish baked goods. Unlike store-bought baked goods, they do not contain preservatives and will spoil quickly without refrigeration. Most homemade baked goods last 5 to 7 days in the fridge. You can also freeze them for up to 3 months.
Make oat and almond flour in big batches. I like to pour a large container of oats or a bag of almonds into the blender or food processor and blend into a flour. Then pour the flour in a sealed container and freeze for up to one year.
Converting old-fashioned oats to oat flour in recipes is simple. When the recipe calls for old-fashioned oats, but you have oat flour on hand, simply use ¼ cup less oat flour than the old-fashioned oats that the recipe calls for (example: a recipe calls for 1 cup old-fashioned oats; use ¾ cup oat flour).
If you are gluten sensitive, be sure to use gluten-free products. When using old-fashioned oats, be sure they are gluten-free oats.
When a recipe calls for cooked chicken, I like to use the white meat from a rotisserie chicken or make my own shredded chicken in large batches in a slow cooker and store the meat in the freezer. It helps to always have cooked chicken on hand to add to recipes.