10-Grain Muffins

I read a lot of food blogs. Whenever I find a recipe I’d like to try, I flag it. Then, once a week, I get out the pad of “grocery list” paper and pore over those flagged recipes until I’ve picked enough for one week. Then we go grocery shopping. The only part I’ve left out is that I tend to postpone making the list until we’ve run out of groceries and are desperate for some fresh produce. This is the very situation I found myself in this morning. We needed breakfast. We try not to buy much cold cereal. We had no eggs; no fruit. Oatmeal was getting old. I started sifting through condiments in the back of the fridge and found a bag of Bob's Red Mill 10-grain cereal. Lo and behold, there was a recipe on the back, which required only standard pantry ingredients and required just half an hour to make – so Rich would make it to work on time! Since they saved the day, I thought I'd honor the muffins with a post of their own – here’s my adaptation of those muffins:

10-Grain Muffins
1. • 1 cup 10-grain cereal
   • 1¼ cup milk
   • ½ cup sugar
   • 5 tbsp butter
   • 1 egg, room temperature
   • 1 cup flour
   • 1 tsp salt
   • 1 tsp baking powder
   • 1 tsp baking soda
   • ½ cup frozen blueberries
2. 1. Mix Bob's 10 Grain Cereal and milk and allow to stand for 10 minutes while preheating oven and assembling other ingredients.
   2. Cream sugar and margarine and egg together. Add dry ingredients and milk with cereal. Mix until just combined. Spoon into a greased muffin pan.
   3. Bake in 400 degree oven for 15 minutes. Makes 12 muffins.