Next time someone tells you muffins ain’t health food, stuff one of these into their piehole
I took these out of the oven during Bob’s afternoon lesson (held in our kitchen, as usual) and put them on the table with some butter and honey. We all dug in, and Hannah silently wrote “WOW” with an arrow pointing at the plate of muffins.
These guys don’t rise a whole lot, but they’re plenty moist and tasty. Serve them piping hot with butter and honey.
Whole Wheat Molasses Oatmeal Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 C whole wheat flour
- 1 C rolled oats (not quick-cooking or any of that bullshit)
- 1 T baking powder
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1 T safflower oil
- ¼ C black-strap molasses
- 1 C water
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Combine flour, oats, and baking powder in a large bowl and stir to combine.
- Add the egg, oil, molasses (tip: measure the oil in a tablespoon first, and then measure out 4 tablespoons of the molasses — it won’t stick!), and water, and stir until just combined but still lumpy.
- Spoon into greased muffin tins.
- Bake for about fifteen minutes or until the muffins are springy to the touch.
The other night I couldn’t sleep because I was lying in bed running through all the things I have to and want to do. In an attempt to stop freaking out about it, I wrote down everything I could think of in one ginormous list. Damn.
I’ve already done some of it though.
- * make English muffins
- * make a new noteboook
- get our own place & a dog
- start journaling regularly so I can remember the days
- do Aaron’s mobile gallery
- plant around the house
- * March newsletter
- get kitchen knife sharpened
- work with the high school agriculture program
- set a standard recipe template for the farm blog
- Bob’s yarn-spinning lady?
- ask Bob about hops farming
- make peanut butter cookies
- get Aaron to visit
- in_the_store.xml to Blogger?
- organize farm workdays
- harvest/make mustard
- lead a chicken workshop for kids
- make granola bars
- read everything in the world
- work for Carole on the weekends for $$$
- get peppermint oil for delicious baking soda
- brew beer
- finish Chris’s sweater
- make oregano mayonnaise
- make toothpaste
- bake lots of bread
- get bristol board from art store
- clean room
- make Mom a scarf out of that Cashsoft yarn
- get a Klezmer book
- grow hops
- hatch some baby chickens
- website insanity
- learn about having goats & sheep
- get Dave to visit
- get Dad to visit
- * write competition control copy
- learn to sew
- go to Italy for the harvest
- English essays
- draw my favorite rooster
- * print/bind calendar
- greenstringinstitute.org
- organize workshops
- knit Chris some slippers
- sell crafty stuff again
- visit Hidden Villa
- volunteer for Petaluma Bounty
- reorganize the mudroom/tools
- read the most recent “Best American Science Writing” book
- go to Point Reyes
- make Allie a calendar
- * SLEEP. Man, I’m exhausted.