Nomad Kitcheneer

  Fresh out of oven..... A few days ago, I made my first attempt of the oatmeal muffin , and the results were quite fantastic. According to review on epicurious, this recipe is supposed to be very flexible that you can make your own modifications. Since I still have my big bottle of buttermilk sitting in my fridge waiting to be consumed, I decided that I'd join the crowd and try to change things up a bit. Changes i made: Instead of butter, vegetable oil was used brown sugar quantity was cut in half half of the all purpose flour was substituted with rye flour added 1 tsp of vanilla and 1/2 tsp of cinnamon butterscotch chips in place of dried fruit lower oven temperature and slightly longer baking time With all the modifications I made, I was a bit scared of the result. I mean, usually I'd change one thing at a time, so if things didn't turn out well, I knew exactly what went wrong. However, with all the raving reviews on epicurous, I decided to just jump at

Oatmill Muffin, fresh out of oven I know...I know...breakfast is probably one of the most important meals of the day. For me, breakfast also pose another really tricky dilemma: do I want to sleep more or do I want to have a better meal? The choice for me has always been to sleep more. I told myself that I can eat while I'm driving (yes...and I'm pretty good at that, this is an essential skill if you live in Southern California, as we spend so much time behind the wheel anyways, might as well make good use of the time). The other thing is, I'm always sleep deprived, so I could really use that extra 15 minutes. Others would suggest eating breakfast after I get to work. Well....that doesn't fly for me, as I cannot eat at work, so everything must be consumed prior to me stepping into my office. Otherwise, you'll see me standing in front of the security trying to finish my breakfast as fast as possible.  So over the years, I've experimented with