Breadcrumbs - two part question

In my frige are a BIG bag of fresh breadcrumbs. I asked for about two cups at the grocery store and they brought me 2kg :o of breadcrumbs. Seeing that it was for free .. I took it. Now it's in my fridge and I have no idea what to do with it. I used some of it to make a cabbagebake thing (that was terrific btw) but now I'm lost. Any ideas on how to make it disapear. And no, dd can't throw everything on the lawn for the birdies ... it's entrapment .. we have a cat ;)

Also I'm making Arancini Balls (thanks Cai) for poker night tomorrow, but it asks for dry breadcrumbs. How do I make them dry? Just pop them in the oven for how long? At wat temp?

TIA

A few thoughts are things like meatballs, tuna morney ( a breadcrumb crumble on top) and fish.....

lol you got lucky didnt you :)
theres some good recipes on this website that could help you use up some of the bread crumbs Breadcrumbs recipes - search - Taste.com.au hope that helps :) xx

chirsty - :doh: just add to whatever mince dish to streach :doh:
Emmasn - thanks for the link ... I'm adding it to my favs, loads of cool ideas there

Would it be possible to dry them out and freeze them?? I'm scared that I won't get through 2kg's of breadcrumbs before they go off.

A couple of my favourites....

1. Schnitzel... get some chicken breast, veal or beef, slice/bang out thing and crumb with fresh breadcrumbs.

For schnitzel add some grated parmesan, plus some driend for a real hit and fresh or dried herbs for a really tasty crumb - you will never go back to dried crumbs.

2. Mix in some lemon pepper and chicken seasoning to your fresh crumbs, cut chicken breast into "nugget" or "strip sized pieces, crumb and shallow fry - the best ever Chicken Nuggets :)

crumb some steak, chicken breast/drumsticks, sasuages

hun i freeze mine!!

yeah, just freeze them fresh. they will be fine

Fresh is fine, otherwise I use Panko (Japanese Bread Crumbs) in place if I don't have dry crumbs... but honestly fresh is fine.

I don't know how fine the breadcrumbs you got are, but what my mum does is she puts old bread (few days old, rather than binning it) on an oven tray and puts them in the oven and lets them bake/cook (i dunno!) until they are really hard, not black or anything, dark golden brown and then wizzes them through the blender until they are really fine. Puts them in an airtight jar and they last for ages.

i guess you can too, just brown them in the oven and wizz them in the blender and put in a jar.