Do you know the Muffin Man?

Apparently I have morphed into the Muffin Lady. Okay, so I lied in my title but hey, there’s not a song about a Muffin Lady.

I have this little cookbook called Main Dish Soups & Stews and Breads by Narda Butler and Barbara Beckman. (It’s been years and I’m still annoyed at myself for not having Narda sign it before she went off to Alaska.) On the very last page of this book is a recipe for Oatmeal Muffins. I modified the recipe slightly and they’ve become a huge hit over at my daughter’s dorm building.

Sunday afternoon, when Theresa’s friends stopped by, one said something about muffins. “Wait a second,” I told her and went into the kitchen. I made a batch of the muffins for breakfast that morning so I gave them the rest to take back with them to school.

I’ve said when the dog looks at me, he doesn’t see me. He sees a huge, walking bag of dog food. I’m afraid these college kids are going to start viewing me as a giant muffin.

Unfortunately, I can’t post a picture of the muffins because I didn’t think of taking a picture until after they were gone. On the other hand, after being forced to see those pastries yesterday, maybe I shouldn’t post 2 pictures of food within a single week.

I wasn’t quite sure if that Muffin Man thing was a nursery rhyme or a song. I Googled it and I think it may be both, but that’s not the fun thing I ended up finding. It’s this website with a dozen muffin movies. Some are silly, some are funny and I wish I could figure out how to use Flash so I could make my own movies. And how did they get their muffin tin so clean? I bet they never even actually used it to bake muffins!

NOTE: You can now see a photo of these muffins and I even posted the recipe.