10,000 oat bran recipes

Barbecued flank steak sandwiches pile thin-sliced steak tossed in a quick smoky-sweet chipotle BBQ sauce onto hoagie rolls with grilled red onion. Bold, saucy, and built for a fast cookout lunch.

Non-fat blueberry muffins made with egg whites, skim milk, and zero added oil or butter. Tender low-calorie breakfast muffins that don't taste like deprivation.

Holiday gingerbread cutout cookies made with molasses, brown sugar, and warm spices. Dough chills for 1 hour, rolls to perfect thickness, then cuts into festive shapes ready for decorating.

Open-faced bacon, Swiss cheese, and tomato sandwiches on toasted rye with dill mayo, melted under the microwave in 90 seconds. A quick, hot lunch ready in 10 minutes flat.

Sausage braid: pizza dough filled with browned Italian sausage, peppers, onions, and mozzarella, then woven into a golden braid and baked. An impressive, shareable stromboli-style bake.

These fritters were very tasty. Made these fritters for dinner the other day, I added 1 chopped scallions and 1 small fresh red chili pepper and also made a chipotle chili and toasted cumin sour cream dip to accompany the fritters, yum!

Unusual banana curry muffins flavored with curry powder, treacle, and sweetened condensed milk, plus mashed bananas and bran. A high-fibre breakfast muffin with a savory-spice twist.

I add a couple of teaspoons of multi-colored nonpareils to make them a bit more festive.

Tender blueberry cream cheese muffins made in the food processor with cake flour, juicy berries, and a tang of lemon. Soft cake-like crumb, ready in 45 minutes.

Hearty 'almost whole wheat' pancakes blending whole wheat and white flour for nutty flavor without dense weight. Brown sugar adds soft sweetness. A breakfast workhorse that stacks high on the plate.

Sweet pie dough (pate sucree) made in a food processor with butter, eggs, sugar, and flour. The buttery, slightly sweet pastry that elevates fruit pies and tarts.

Super moist and delicious. These muffins are great for grab-go breakfast or a afternoon pick-me-up snack.

Lighter apple oat muffins with applesauce in place of much of the fat and rolled oats for chewy texture. Cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves give classic fall-bakery flavor in a 30-minute breakfast muffin.

Rubber stamp gingerbread cookies bake up firm enough to hold cutter shapes and decorate, with a pinch of cayenne hiding behind the molasses, ginger, and cloves for unexpected warmth.

Spiced banana bread with ginger, allspice, fresh nutmeg, lemon zest, ground almonds, and four mashed ripe bananas. A warmly aromatic loaf that beats plain banana bread by a mile.

Orange yogurt muffins with bright fresh zest, tangy yogurt, and a tender, light crumb. A breakfast muffin that tastes like sunshine and uses just one bowl for the wet ingredients.