In my kitchen:

Are some very cute oat bran muffins.  I was attracted to the recipe because I have had some oat bran in the cool room for a little toooo long.  Also, I like to delude myself that anything with oat bran in it must be good for me.  It is a Charmaine Solomon recipe.  Charmaine suggests grinding the oat bran in a food processor or blender until very fine.  This resulted in a lovely, finely textured muffin. The muffins didn’t look like, or  taste like, horse fodder at all.  I was very impressed.  These were orange and currant muffins.  I am going to replace the currants with dark chocolate chips.  I love orange with chocolate – I bet it will be good. Continue reading →