Muffins! Inspired by, Muffins!

This certainly has been a busy month. Between weddings, apartment hunting, birthdays, baptisms and filing police reports for lost or stolen items we’ve gotten a little off track. You’ll be relieved to know we have not stopped cooking or eating for that matter. At times like this a simple salad, pasta recipe or quick and easy homemade “sloppy joes” has been the cuisine du jour. Look out for Dan’s post on that later!

Here’s a fun and healthy, slightly overboard breakfast muffin recipe:

Chloe’s “Chocolate chip Cran-Banana Barley Flaxmeal Muffins!”
Makes 1 dozen large muffins.

Dry ingredients:
1 cup AP flour
1 cup flaxmeal
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 cup Godiva semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup dried sweetened cranberries
½ tsp. salt
1 tsp. nutmeg
3 tbs. cinnamon
2 tbs. grated orange peel

Wet ingredients:
1 egg
2 mashed bananas
½ cup cooked cracked barley
½ cup olive oil
½ Golden syrup (you can find this in your international British/Irish foods section) OR Agave nectar
1 tsp vanilla extract

Combine wet to dry and mix thoroughly. Bake in oven at 375 for 25 mins.