Daily Archives: September 3, 2009

Muffins

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I wanted to share a muffin recipe that we’ve been making a lot lately.  I think it’s fairly healthy with carrots, pineapple, and sunflower seeds.  The muffins come out kind of cakey and delicious.  Just the right amount of sweet, but not too much.  I double the recipe because the pineapple cans I find in the store are 20oz, so I double the recipe and use the whole can.  We all eat them… A LOT!  I say I make them for the kids but I’m sure I eat a lot more than they do, mostly because I regulate their eating better than my own!  Anyway, give them a shot if you want a tasty, healthy treat.

Pineapple Sunshine Muffins
From Best of Country Breads (a great book!)

Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground ginger
2 eggs
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 can (8oz) crushed pineapple, undrained
1/2 cup shredded carrots
1/2 cup sunflower kernels

In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and ginger.  In another bowl, mix the eggs, butter, and vanilla; stir in pineapple.  Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.  Fold in carrot and sunflower kernels.  Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups (or Pampered Chef stoneware muffin pan, awesome!) until 3/4 full.  Bake at 375° for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.  Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to wire rack.  Serve warm.  Yield: 1 dozen.

Monsters and bathtub drawings

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What do you do with monsters?  Eve has taken an interest in monsters and talks about them a lot.  She’s not really scared, but will often ask if there are monsters in her room.  I say no, of course.  It’s a funny thing and not something we’ve had to deal with so far.  It started shortly after they watched Monsters, Inc.  When she started talking about monsters in her closet (or in the office, or any other dark area) decided to not let the fear get to far.  I found a book at the library about a monster boy having a birthday party.  It was about sharing, really, and the monsters acted just like people, not scary monsters.  Now she wavers between asking me about monsters in dark room and pretending to be a monster herself.  I’m trying hard to keep it silly and not scary because I really don’t want a kid who is afraid of monsters or the dark.  She has such an awesome imagination.

On another subject, I love how Eve draws.  She holds the crayons/markers/pens the right way and makes somewhat recognizable pictures and puts eyes on people and other fun things.  I bought the kids bathtub crayons recently and they have been loving them.  In the tub tonight Eve drew me (a big circle) and her (a little circle) inside my belly.  She gave us both eyes and I got a mouth and a “pagina” :)  She is facinated with babies in bellies lately and talks a lot about when she was a tiny baby in my belly.  It’s so cool to see her developing the ability to put those thoughts into pictures.