Friday night is usually pizza night at my place, but tonight I’ve been extremely distracted by a 5.5-pound (2.5Kg) bag of oats, which Troy easily convinced me to buy, and which, for my sense of perspective, is more than I weighed at birth.
What am I supposed to do with all these oats?!
Trot with me over to Jill’s blog, where I’ve been scooping up lots of nifty ideas to take home, and let’s read her post on refrigerator muffins. Neat, huh?
As I understand it, you make a batch of muffin batter. You try to keep that batter in your refrigerator for up to 5 days (up to 6 weeks for some recipes!). As a reward for not making and eating the muffins all on the first day, you can eat some muffins almost any time you please without needing to start from scratch every single time.
Wow.
Now tell me, did you, too, start humming merrily when you read her tip about microwaving this batter for happy individual muffins? Sure, it takes about 45 minutesseconds, she says, but that’s just enough time to take a shower, put on your pajamas, snuffle around the house for a good book or magazine to read, and fix a pot of your favorite hot drink (45 seconds!! – so do this *after* the shower, pajamas, book and drink…). I haven’t tried this yet, but boy oh boy am I going to!
So, okay, that takes care of about 2 cups of the oats. What about the rest? Oatmeal raisin cookies. Oatmeal nut cookies. Coffee cake toppings. Cobbler toppings. Plain oatmeal. Veggie burgers.
You guys will have to come over and help me eat all this.
Filed under: Parent Tips, Quick Breads, Vegetarian Kids
OOPS!! My bad!!! That should be 45 seconds. Really hoping you didn’t pop in a shower and come out to the charred remains of a muffin : ( I changed it on my blog.
Oh and you forgot about oatmeal bread. And did you know you can make an oatmeal pie???
@Jill: 45 *seconds*!! Aha! See, out of supreme I-can’t-wait curiosity, I happened to check after only a minute and the muffin looked quite edible. I figured your 45 minutes was maybe due to oh say the oft-spouted differences in microwave ovens. I’m not technical – what do I know? Thanks for letting me know for sure!
@Jill: Oatmeal pie? Oatmeal pie?? Ooh, I’m looking expectantly at my monitor right now waiting for the recipe to appear. Or can I trot over to your blog and find the recipe there? Oatmeal pie? Oatmeal pie??
LOL! If you can get your hands on the book Sweety Pies by Patty Piner DO!!! It’s in there along with a lot of other wonderful pie recipes and with each recipe she writes about the woman she received it from. SUPERB book!
@Jill: Adding the cookbook to my wishlist! Still…oatmeal pie?? I’m imagining the gloopy – but yummy – stuff I eat for breakfast baked in a pie crust. That can’t be right. Oatmeal pie??
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