Attainment of Vittles
I have come to the unalterable conclusion that supermarket lighting is only attractive on fruit , shoppers just look like hollow eyed zombies rampaging for fresh provisions .
My daughter and I made a foray into the warehouse-ish HEB this past Friday .Sometimes these kinds of stores have birds flying up in the rafters, thankfully we were spared such avian antics .
I firmly believe the dairy and produce sections there probably have different zipcodes.
Phone cam in hand I snapped away while we filled the cart with reasonably priced munchables.
Quite the workout to amble about the place in search of good buys and healthy foods , but a distinct sense of satisfaction as we marched our goodies up to the cashier.
The sky was blindingly blue outside as we stacked our bounty into the trunk and got ready for the journey home in our little indigo Passat.
O Do You Know the Muffin Man,
The Muffin Man
The muffin man, the muffin man.
O do you know the muffin man,
Who lives in Drury Lane?
O yes I know the muffin man,
The muffin man, the muffin man,
O yes I know the muffin man,
Who lives in Drury Lane.
~Well, actually no you chauvenist.But I do know the Muffin lady who lives on this here lane. Yup you guessed right, a star for you, it's Moi.
AKA The Muffin Mistress 
That sounds a bit kinky ,but really it's just about the dough ,baby.
Er, I mean batter.
In the wee hours of the night I am sure you wake up in a cold sweat just wondering how I got to this way of living.
So I'll put your mind at ease and tell you a tale of a twenty something wanna-be cook who was tired of buying pre-fab food.
19 years ago I brought home a Fannie Farmer Cookbook from the public library and changed my culinary destiny&nbs p;.
Muffins were so easy to make that they were among my first test recipes from the sacred book .
They are versatile and can go from a staple healthy breakfast or midmorning snack , to a decadent mini cake .
Easy to make, and a portable feast to boot.
I start with this standard recipe :
2 cups of flour,
1/2 cup of sugar ,
1 tbl baking powder,
1 beaten egg ( take that you yolk!)
1 cup of fruit ( canned sour cherries, frozen or fresh blueberries ,ripe bananas or raspberries,or even pumpkin)
1 tbl . vanilla or cinnamon
1 cup of low fat milk
1 /4 cup ( 4 tbl) oil ( canola, coconut,or veggie).
Mix that mess together and then add flavorings and nuts, fruits, pastes, fruit spreads...the variations and additions are mind boggling.
Bake in a 375 F oven ( after you make all the flavor&nbs p;/fruit adjustments)in a muffin tin for just under 30 minutes , or for mini muffins 15-20 minutes.
One of my favorites involved orange zest, orange fruit spread and a thin layer of marzipan in the center.
This past weekend I made Jekyll & Hydes.
A basic banana-vanilla dough , but with half of them banana-coconut-walnut and the other half banana peanut & chocolate chip.
Wow !
They were gone really fast.
I have been tweaking this recipe for years now and am baking with white whole wheat flour, less sugar, and salt free baking powder with no loss of flavor ( very important detail).
This week I am making blueberry with almond meal and cinnamon.
Funny, I never have a problem with finding anyone for taste testing...
Shameless Blog Meme Lifting
Thanks Rosietulips ! 
Y O U … C A N … O N L Y … T Y P E … O N E … W O R D !
N O … E X P L A N A T I O N S !
1. Yourself: frustrated
2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend: imaginary
3. Your hair? glossy
4. Your mother? witch
5. Your Father? loquacious
6. Your Favorite item? earrings
7. Your dream last night: umm
8. Your Favorite drink: coffee
10. The Room You Are In: family
11. Your Ex: NA
12. Your fear: death
13. Where do you want to be in 10 years: alive
14. Who you hung out with yesterday? daughter
15. What You’re Not: thin
16. Your Best Friend: daughter
17. One of Your Wish List Items: vacation
18. What makes you happy: freedom
19. The Last Thing You Did: dinner
20. What You Are Wearing: clothes
21. Your Favorite Weather: crisp
22. Your Favorite book: fantasy
23. The Last Thing You Ate: fruit
24. Your Life: strange
25. Your Mood: eh
27. What are you thinking about right now: tv
28. Your Crush: Gerard
29. What are you doing at the moment: chilling
30. Your summer schedule: packing
Wagons Ho !
I wish.
Still struggling to get people rounded up and packing their stuff.
Steff's done, I'm draggin a bit, but my parents are slower than all get out.
Dad's been sidetracked by the shuttle launch, however, he's got 10 days off and things should get moving around here.
"
Shelburne Falls Mass. where Steff and I want to move to sans my parents as soon as we sell this house.
keeps moving farther and farther into the year.
Another Anniversary Rolls By
Pieces of Yesterday
I spotted this while packing a box the other day :
A Sales Slip
for crispy ridged
sandwiches
that use to be
a special treat
after a brisk winter
walk on the beach
or a rainy spring day
visit from Dad
maybe nobody
wanted to lift a pot
after a long week
a crumpled scrap of paper
just beginning to fade
bookmarks those
long eaten delicacies.
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Tom's 4 year anniversary fast approaching , I keep being pulled back into that vortex of unanswered questions comp ounded with what-ifs.
No answers ever make themselves known.
Clean Up On Blog Edition 1 !
I have been cleaning up this blog for 3 days straight now.
Fixing pictures, all manner of mistakes, broken links and what-not.
I 
understand why my links inside the post look like a paragraph instead of one line.
Maybe somebody could 'splain that to me
...*puh-leaze*
Misc , Handy Dandy Term for this Mish Mash I'm About to Serve Up...
I deserted this blog a long time ago.
I was simply unhappy with some of the features.
But being a blabbermouth I have decided to write ever so often because, well, I can.
Stuff in my life isn't good and it isn't bad these days --it's misc.