Garden Harvest Muffins

Ugh. I cannot believe this weather. It’s times like this when I have to agree with Brent. Why on earth did I leave southern California?? It is April! Blah.
On to the food. My friend at work is a sweetheart, who often brings me delicious Indian food for lunch. So when she asked if I could [...]

Herbed Beer Muffins

Yep. Beer muffins. I wanted to make something to add in with our lunches and I thought beer bread might be good with some soup, but I also had a bunch of herbs, the tarragon and parsley leftover from the weekend, and some rosemary for later this week, the rest of which were likely to [...]

Peanut Butter Banana Muffins

I did not get Brent any crackers to take with his lunch. (His lunch always has like 5 parts. Dudes eat a lot.) So, I had to make him another component. We had 2 bananas left from last week that were brown, and to spice things up a bit I decided to add some peanut [...]

SWING STATE!!!

I have to admit I did not believe all the hype about Indiana being a swing state. I guess because I live in a conservative section of a conservative town in a traditionally red state, so I’m surrounded by McCain signs daily. But I could not be more excited watching these returns! Still waiting on [...]

Soup Stuff

Whoops! I did it again… an unexpectedly long absence. I made quite a few things last week. First, I tried my hand at making some vegetable broth. I figured with trying to save money on groceries, spending $2 or $3 on broth was insane considering I could make it from leftover scraps. I just threw [...]

Top O’ The Muffin To You

I love strawberries, so I don’t know why it took me so long to bake with them. Well, probably because I just eat them plain. Today I branched out, and in the spirit of using things up, I decided to use leftover strawberries from our sangria, and some soy yogurt in the fridge. The result:
STRAWBERRY-YOGURT [...]