it's been a super long week....i am looking forward to an easier week coming around the corner....i really enjoy the holidays...i get to spend time with family that i don't see nearly enough...life happens and plans to spend time together get lost...but then thanksgiving comes around followed by xmas....and it is a guarantee that i see some of my favorite people....i will be preparing food, which calms me, if i let the stress of perfection roll of my shoulders....
because we eat differently than a lot of people, i like to bring food that i know i can enjoy (plus i get to cook/bake, which i enjoy).... i am making thanksgiving salmon (lol! yum!) this year....i am still trying to figure out what i want to take for dessert....i made brownies the other day, but i need to mess with the recipe cause i found them not moist and gooey enough...which is how i prefer my brownies...
i am gonna share a current favorite at my house...isaac refers them to as the "the yummy muffins".... it has been nice to have muffins to put in my kid's lunches, i got the idea from my friend monika, who made the most amazing muffins last winter using peanut butter, and applesauce and banana's, so i had to make it gluten free...my current favorite flours to bake with are quinoa and buckwheat, i like combining them...these are a nutritious "treat"
Peanut Butter/Applesauce/ Banana Muffins
-preheat oven at 400 degrees and prepare muffin trays (i use the really big muffins lined with paper liners)
1c buckwheat flour
1c quinoa flour
1/4c arrowroot (if you don't have, tapioca flour and potato starch work just as well)
3t of baking powder
a pinch of celtic salt
1t cinnamon
1/2t of all spice (optional)
1/2c of coconut crystal
i mix 2T of flax and 2T of chia seeds in a coffee grinder (you can use all chia or all flax)
-mix all your dry ingredients in a bowl
1 banana (pureed in a blender or if you're blessed to have a vita mix)
1/3c smooth peanut butter
1/3c of applesauce
3/4-1c of coconut milk (the wetter the fluffier, the less, the denser)
1T of vanilla extract...
mix both wet and dry and fill the muffin liners to the very top....
bake for 18-20 minutes
i typically with dip the muffins in a light glaze to give it a slight sweet taste...i'll have to post that recipe sometime, it's an agave glaze, made with coconut oil....
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