About Battered Oats

The name originated from a recipe I would make which required mashing up a bunch of various ingredients in a whole bunch of oatmeal. I called them Battered Oat Bars. Along with oatmeal you add brown rice syrup, and typically some mixture of raisins, nuts, chocolate, etc.

One very clear point of the recipe was that you throw in whatever ingredients you like. Eventually I made the mistake of asking, "when do these stop being Battered Oats?".

batteredoats.com once tried to model that question by breaking down recipes into an ontology. For Example:

Mayonnaise is a mother sauce (egg, lemon juice and oil whipped together), but when you add pickles, capers and dill, the mayonnaise becomes tartar sauce.

I still like the problem, and the idea of food ontology in general, but batteredoats.com didn't achieve what it set out to accomplish. I mean, I'm demonstrating the concept of it with a mayonnaise example, clearly it deserved to fail. For now, Battered Oats stands as a stands as a placeholder for some random recipes my family has collected over the years. Perhaps in the future I'll get back to the ontology.

You're probably here because you're emailing me. I appreciate that you took time out to also check out the site!