Seriously Reduced fat banana muffins with tea.
I used the Post Punk Kitchen's recipe (for banana bread) with some changes, replacing all the oil with apple sauce and halving the sugar. I also replaced half of the all purpose flour with fine-ground durum flour (the chapati flour available in Indian stores.) The muffins turned out very moist, sweet, and all around Delicious.
Dry Ingredients:
1 cup all purpose flour + 1 cup durum flour (or use 2 cups all purpose flour)
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
1/4 tsp chai masala ( a combo of cloves and cardamom)
Wet Ingredients:
1/2 cup applesauce (This is in lieu of fat, you can replace some or all with butter/margarine)
2 tbsp molasses
1/4 cup sugar
3 well mashed medium bananas (or two large ones)
What to do:
- Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a 9 x 4 bread pan or a 12 cup regular sized muffin pan.
- Whisk all the wet ingredients together in a large bowl.
- Sift all the dry ingredients together and add them to the wet.
- Mix with a wooden spoon until just combined. Pour into the greased pan.
- For the muffins, bake for 23-25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the muffin comes out clean.
- For bread, bake for 50-60 minutes, until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Cool for ten minutes.
These are so good..they get all caramelized on the outside, and soft on the inside. The recipe is very play-able. Chocolate chips, nuts, dried fruit, raisins..these are all fair additions. What would I do without vegan baking Goddesses?
* Makes 10 muffins- per muffin, 160 cals, 0.3 gm fat, 36.6 gm carbs, 4 gm protein, 1.8 gm fiber.
Happy Fireworks, folks!!!
- Write a proper blog about LAST weekend, seeing Andrew and Ted.
- Buy Mom's birthday present.
- Do real estate crap.
- Do ebay crap.
- Do regular work crap.
- Update Frozen Barbie.
- Burn disc for Ted.
- Email photos to Vic.
- Obsessively play Pool on Myspace.
- Try not to kill a teenager.
- Try not to kill self.
- Remind self that this time last year you were sick as all hell.
- Remind self that a little bit of depression is far better than having a bronchoscopy.
- Plan the packing situation for moving.
- Discuss cable plans with Mom.
- Obsessively listen to NIN and Loveline.
- Focus.
- Read the fucking books I bought.
- Look at tile for my bathroom floor.
- Look at carpeting for my bedroom floor.
- Look at paint for the library ceiling.
- Find cheapo, awesome bookshelves.
- Stop clawing at face.
- Everything will be okay.
- The noise will end soon.
Show us two things that should never be together.
I hate heavy perfumes or body products. I don't wear perfume much, or scented body products. If I do, I like things like lavendar (my fave!) or low-key earthy scents.
I especially don't like Bath and Body Works. I used to get down with it and I know a lot of people love it, but it's just not my cup of tea.
Well, I shoulda been paying attention to the anti-bacterial on my co-workers desk when I asked her to use some. Cus it is Bath and Body Works and it is heaavvvvvvy! UGH! It's going to the back of my throat and into my nose and I'm already kinda sickly, so it's making it worse! And it won't go away.
Beggers can't be choosers; co-worker was kind enough to share (whereas I don't keep my products on my desk, cus I'm selfish about those things). But still.
I smell like a teenage girl getting ready for a date or something.
In central Illinois there is a small town called Monticello (locally pronounced Mon-tea-sell-o unlike everywhere else in the world); Just outside of town there is a park managed by the University of Illinois called Allerton. You can check out my photo gallery to see more images taken in the park. But, the reason for this post is this: Within the park there is a large statue called "Sunsinger" it stands over 15 feet tall, it is bronze, and it is exposed to the weather. Over the years it has started show a little wear and tear, but not so much that it looked too bad compared to most outdoor statues of it's kind. Well, someone didn't like the way that it was starting to look so over the winter they took it down and did some "restoration" work on it. Last week I finally had a chance to take a look at the result of the work. *sigh* Now it looks like something out of Disneyland.
Yes it is really coated in what looks like light blue paint.
Below you can see the before and after pictures.
With 10.5 Millions firecrackers being set off at one time:
I left my iPod at home.
I feel like I left my arm at home or something.
I'm neeeeeverrrrrr without my iPod. :(
Sleepy.
16:02 is quite honestly delirious.
19:25 loves everyone going to the fifties fair
