Using What I Have Journal Entry #11

 

I found a recipe in an old cookbook I was eager to veganize, in part because it used oat bran, and I need to be using oat bran. The recipe was for "spicy plum muffins" in Louis Weber's Muffins & Quick Breads for Every Occasion (1995). I used Bob's Red Mill egg substitute for the eggs and cut the recipe in half because I wasn't sure how it would go. I also didn't put in as many plums as originally suggested because my plums were large, the size of a large peach, and in my 1990s memories, plums were a lot smaller than that.

I think I overfilled the muffin cups nonetheless, but regardless, the muffins did not rise. They overflowed and flattened out. The consistency was intriguing, though, almost like soft cookies, so I couldn't really complain too much. I'll just revisit this at another time.

But in the interim: I put one of my deformed but delicious muffins on a plate with some veggie sausage links and a clementine and had that with some grain-based "coffee" au (soy) lait.

And it was a good breakfast! One I could have over and over again. The muffins beg to be perfected, too--they were really so good, just flat and unwieldy. Plus, they used some oat bran. We can call that a win!