A slightly sweet, multigrain muffin made with oats soaked in whey (or buttermilk, if you don't have buckets of whey to use up) whole wheat flour, and ripe plums
Subtitle: On Walking and Whey
What's your favorite song that's got a good beat for walking? I'm looking for new tunes, and I'd appreciate any suggestions in the comments below.
Next month I'm walking a half marathon for no particular reason. That's a lot of miles to walk, all at once, for the heck of it, you know? My favorite walking partner got sent on an all-expense paid working trip to an exotic foreign locale, so I'm training with my second-favorite walking partner, Simon. On longer walks (to me right now that's over 4 miles) he slows me down with his endless sniffing and assorted dog-on-walk behaviors. For shorter jaunts (and yes, walking one mile to buy a quart of freshly-roasted Hatch chiles or a gallon of milk is now a short jaunt, and a gallon of milk isn't that heavy when you carry it for a mile) he's a good walking buddy.
[Not as good as my walking buddies in Virginia--you guys are awesome and it was a joy
to get out of bed at 5:40am--even in January--to walk with you all.]
On one of our walks recently Simon and I came across a plum tree, with ripe fruit spilling out all over the street. Being a frugal scavenger at heart I snagged a handful of ripe plums. I'd been wanting to try a soaked-oat plum muffin. It wasn't until I arrived home miles later that I realized I didn't have any buttermilk. We were heading out of town though, so I didn't want to buy buttermilk before the trip. Instead, I decided to experiment with some of the whey.
