‘banana’

These Banana Bran Muffins were inspired by my grandmother’s bran muffin recipe. Her original recipe called for a whole cup of sugar as well as a cup of oil. I thought because they were bran muffins that meant they were healthy, and would happily eat multiple in one sitting!  On the flip side, there have been plenty of bran muffins I’ve tried that tasted like...

Who doesn’t love a jumbo muffin?  These Jumbo Banana Ginger Muffins are great for meal prep for the week. The star of these muffins is the Safe + Fair Gingerbread Cooking granola.  Right now they are on sale – the combo of the Gingerbread Cookie and Chocolate Candy Cane are bundled for only $11.00 for both.  Use my discount Biz20 at Safe + Fair and...

Waking up this Sunday morning I had a taste for both pancakes and muffins.  So I decided to make banana pumpkin pancake muffins! How do you get muffin tops? The secret to getting a muffin top is baking the muffins at 425 for the first five minutes.  I used to bake the muffins at 425 the whole time, but I found that the muffins weren’t...

These banana oat pancakes could not be easier to make.  The blender does all the work! How do you make fluffy oat pancakes? My friend Erica is the QUEEN of banana pancakes.  She uses one banana, one egg and a pinch of salt.  My first question to her was “where is the baking powder?”  That is the secret to fluffy pancakes with our without flour. ...

These banana bacon pancakes are next level.  They are slightly sweet and have a hint of saltiness from the bacon.  So good! Buttermilk pancakes are the best, but what happens if you don’t have any on hand? How do you make buttermilk if you don’t have any? You simply have to add a tablespoon of any type of vinegar to one cup of any type...

Last Friday I found myself with half a dozen really really ripe bananas.  No one in the house would eat them like that, so I decided to bring muffins to take to work last Saturday.  I thought it would be a bit of sunshine at 5:00 a.m. in the morning when everyone is still tired and wished they were still in bed.  I am partial...

Last night I was pondering where I am in my life and how different things are.  Two years ago this past weekend, I was working a second job at Zeal: Tony had already been hospitalized locally three times by May of 2014.   In June, July and August was when we made our treks to Mayo Clinic.  All while holding down a full time job, but...

I’ve had such fun days this week.  Wednesday I had lunch with an old field hockey friend.  We’ve lived in the same town 15 years and ran into each other once like 10 years ago at Bed Bath & Beyond.  She gave me her phone number then, but I brought it home, set it on the counter, it got wet and I couldn’t read her...