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you may be wondering why it would seem that i have named this muffin vincent. in reality, i didn’t, well, at least not until i began writing this post.
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my mom and stepdad are coming to visit from nashville tomorrow, so i went with a downhome southern confection! over the past few years there has been some buzz over tennessee t-cakes, which are said to have originated from the time of the civil war…a young woman lured her lover to marry her by serving him these little delights. my mom sent me a recipe she found a few months ago and i have been meaning to try it out.
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so you have all heard me complain about the buttermilk predicament… this week i tracked down an oatmeal muffin recipe to get the job done. i took the advice of some of the comments and added vanilla and cinnamon. these got good, but not rave, reviews in the office.
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*disclaimer: back to horrendous lighting, as it was a gloomy day… these look much better in person than these pix*
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i was intent on making one of two things this week– strawberry tarts or strawberry lemonade cupcakes; the key ingredient here being strawberries. sunday evening i set off to the grocery store in search of fresh strawberries and pie weights (mine seem to have walked away), to find that the local grocery store was fresh out of berries! i walked over to the produce guy asking if perhaps they were about to put some out and as he was telling me that the shipment hadnt come in, some guy walks past saying “yeah, i got the last carton!” Before pouncing, i stopped to look and noticed that it was not nearly enough strawberries for my needs and decided that no, today is not the day to get arrested for attacking someone in the grocery store.
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