I felt so good this morning. I haven’t felt so good in quite a long time it seems. Not that there’s anything wrong – I’ve just been overwhelmed with some projects I have on the go and haven’t had a breather since the beginning of January. I haven’t had time to play. No time to just play and create for fun. So, I haven’t felt inspired – at.all.
But today I feel different. Aside from the fact that I had a good sleep, there is one other thing that seemed to have lifted my inertia.
Yesterday, I cleaned my house. I put all my magazines, and books, and dishes, and photography and project stuff in their proper places. I dusted. I vacuumed. I scrubbed and cleaned the kitchen and bathroom. I cleaned the fridge. I took the garbage out. I stripped the mantel and put back only the bare minimum (I had some Christmas stuff there for Heavens sake). How refreshing that felt!
I finally got around to arranging the pretty white tulips I had bought two days ago. One arrangement went on the mantel, the other on the dining room hutch. I changed the hutch runner to something more (springy) and strung some sparkly lights on it.
And then I sat around in awe at how much better I felt. I turned on Norah Roberts and just chilled out for the rest of the day.
So that brings me to these muffins. Because I wasn’t feeling overwhelmed by dust and clutter this morning, I was inspired to bake (a real bakethrough for me)… doing/creating something because I felt inspired!
Then I proceeded to eat about 5 of them… that might not be so good… but they are delicious and I’ve justified the fact that I ate so many by deciding that muffins are going to be my breakfast, lunch and dinner today.
Enjoy!
- 1 cup oats
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup oil
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg (beaten)
- Combine oats and buttermilk.
- Sift flour, salt, soda, baking powder.
- Add oil, sugar and egg to the oat mixture.
- Stir oat mixture into the dry ingredients.
- Pour into muffin tins lined with paper muffin cups.
- Bake at 400 degrees 15 – 20 minutes.
Let cool and try not to eat too many!
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Mmmm! My favourite! It sounds lovely there too – wish we were coming for sure…
Jo
Beautiful! And please send me some of your energy!
Your muffins look both delicious and healthy Barb. How refreshing to have finished “have-to-dos” and straighten up the home ready for relaxation and inspiration once more.
not eating too many will be the hard part
they look delicious, thanks for sharing the recipe Barb.
you have a real talent for food photography ♥
have a wonderful weekend!
Oh lovely muffins I going to try them….. I’ve just thoroughly cleaned my living room feeling very virtuous !!!
So glad I found you! Went missing for awhile. Great post and so glad you feel better about your house. I truly understand sometimes we just get in a slump. Muffins look so delicious. Will have to try them after I clean .
Barb, I’m so glad you let me know you moved over to WordPress. If you hadn’t, I might have missed your gorgeous, gorgeous photos! I’m doing some baking today, too. Have you ever submitted your food photos to FoodGawker? http://www.foodgawker.com. You’ll get lots of new traffic from FoodGawker. They’re very picky about photos they accept but yours should have no problem being approved for their site.
These sound delicious. I’ll have to try this recipe.
Sometimes, cleaning house, helps clean the cobwebs out of our heads, too. I need to do a bit of that, here.
Your muffins look delicious! I’ve been feeling a bit bland lately – I think I’ll borrow your idea of tidying up around here. A clean and tidy house makes all the difference in the way one feels, doesn’t it?
-Marissa
First of all these muffins look really good! I’m really glad you found such inspiration the other day to get so much accomplished! Now all I need to do is find some of that same energy!
I wondered what had happened to you! This is the first time you showed up in my feed in quite some time. Glad you are doing well and staying busy. These cookies look amazing. Thanks for sharing.
muffins for breakfast lunch and dinner. Sounds great to me, giggle. Hugs!
Thank you for this wonderful receipt and this inspiration for the kitchen. Fantastic photos !
Best regards, Synnöve
Lovely photo and super delicious! I love to bake with oat too. Thanks for stopping by……
Those muffins look delicious!
Glad I found your new link! Your blog looks great! So do those muffins!