Rosie Daykin says she realized she loved to cook at an early age. Her after-school "baking bonanzas" attracted all the neighborhood kids, and it was a win/win situation. "Their desire to eat cookies worked very nicely with my desire to bake them," she says in the introduction of her new cookbook, "Let Me Feed You."
Daykin owns a bakery called Butter Baked Goods in Vancouver, Canada, and has two other cookbooks, "Butter Baked Goods" and "Butter Celebrates."
The new cookbook is less about baking and more about feeding a family. It's filled with recipes that are both simple and appealing, including Fried Chicken for Impatient People Like Me, Old-School Potato Salad, D.G.M. (Damn Good Meatloaf) and Pineapple Honey Ribs. With so many recipes that I wanted to try, it was tough to choose one to share, but this Great Oat Loaf immediately struck me as an excellent idea.
Daykin says she loves steel-cut oats but finds they take too long to make on a busy weekday morning. So, she created a make-ahead loaf that you slice into breakfast portions and quickly reheat in the microwave.
