Recipe: Solid Oatmeal (aka, Flourless Oatmeal Muffins)

Invented because it's too hot to eat actual oatmeal in the mornings. Makes twelve muffins.

Walnuts and cranberries are among the ingredients because they're what I put in my oatmeal - you can easily switch the cranberries for raisins or whatever, add cinnamon and sugar, etc. Despite the presence of the applesauce, they're not sweet if you make them without the cranberries. They actually taste a lot like cornbread.

2 1/4 cups quick oats
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk
1 large egg
1/3 cup applesauce
3/4 cups chopped walnuts
1/2 cup dried cranberries

Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Blend oats, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in bowl. Add wet ingredients. Allow liquids to soak into oats until individual oats are not distinguishable, about five minutes. Add walnuts and cranberries. Grease muffin tin, spoon mixture in. Bake for twenty minutes or until tops look to be browning. (They won't brown evenly.)

(Have you noticed all my recipes are very boring?)