I adore muffins. Now I've said it and come out of the baked goods closet, as it were!
I love making muffins, eating them with coffee, quick-breakfasting my kids, feeding them to my friends....love 'em!
Looking at the sad bowl of untouched bananas on the counter this evening, I decided to root about for one of my all time favourite muffin recipes. "Zachary's Favourite Muffins" are named for Mike's former colleague's son (you guessed it) Zachary. They are super healthful, super easy and super delicious!! Here is the recipe:
1 cup quick cooking oats
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 to 1/2 cup wheat germ
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
5 - 6 mashed ripe bananas
1 egg
1/4 cup canola oil
a splash of vanilla
1 cup frozen (or fresh) blueberries
Preheat oven to 375 and prepare about 16 muffin cups (silicone or paper-lined).
Whisk the dry stuff together. Whisk the wet stuff together. Mix it all together and fold in the blueberries. Bake for 23 - 25 minutes. Cool on wire rack 10 minutes before removing from the tins. YUMMY!
Moomins - how can you resist?? Finnish in origin, I met the Moomintroll family while living in Japan. In their quest for all things cute, the Japanese have "adopted" these little critters and they adorn everything from pocket tissue to backpacks, t-shirts to fine china (as the mug behind the muffin). I miss them, though, and wish I could find Moominstuff here (not expecting to find anything in Trail, but somewhere in Canada would suffice!). My former student and good friend was kind enough to bring some Moomin goodies to the girls when she visited in 2006 and I am near to asking her to send some more!
I love making muffins, eating them with coffee, quick-breakfasting my kids, feeding them to my friends....love 'em!
Looking at the sad bowl of untouched bananas on the counter this evening, I decided to root about for one of my all time favourite muffin recipes. "Zachary's Favourite Muffins" are named for Mike's former colleague's son (you guessed it) Zachary. They are super healthful, super easy and super delicious!! Here is the recipe:
1 cup quick cooking oats
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 to 1/2 cup wheat germ
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
5 - 6 mashed ripe bananas
1 egg
1/4 cup canola oil
a splash of vanilla
1 cup frozen (or fresh) blueberries
Preheat oven to 375 and prepare about 16 muffin cups (silicone or paper-lined).
Whisk the dry stuff together. Whisk the wet stuff together. Mix it all together and fold in the blueberries. Bake for 23 - 25 minutes. Cool on wire rack 10 minutes before removing from the tins. YUMMY!
Moomins - how can you resist?? Finnish in origin, I met the Moomintroll family while living in Japan. In their quest for all things cute, the Japanese have "adopted" these little critters and they adorn everything from pocket tissue to backpacks, t-shirts to fine china (as the mug behind the muffin). I miss them, though, and wish I could find Moominstuff here (not expecting to find anything in Trail, but somewhere in Canada would suffice!). My former student and good friend was kind enough to bring some Moomin goodies to the girls when she visited in 2006 and I am near to asking her to send some more!
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1 comment:
Ah ha! Thx for the recipe, I've been thinking about how good it sounded since you mentioned it awhile back.
I have some bananas that are begging to be made into muffins and they thank you too :)
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