Muffins

I've been making muffins and/or cupcakes every Sunday for school. Here are the latest creations.

Banana Bread Muffins
Preheat Oven to 350 F
Blend til creamy: 1/2 c vegan butter (melted), 1 c organic granulated sugar
Beat 3 Tbs hot water and 2 tsp Egg Replacer; add to above
Add 4 mushed up bananas (the older the better)
Add 2 c flour, 2.5 tsp baking powder, .5 tsp salt
Add a hand-full or more of goji berries(or anything else you want)
Bake about 45 minutes in muffin tin.

Sunny (Raspberry) Corn Muffins from VwV
Preheat oven to 400 F
1 c flour
1 c cornmeal
1 Tbs baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 c sugar (brown)
1/2 c vegetable oil
3/4 c soy milk
one small container soy yogurt (I used fruit on bottom raspberry)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1.25 c dried blackberries.

Mix flour, cornmeal, baking powder, salt, and sugar. In separate bowl whisk oil, soy milk, yogurt, vanilla. Fold ingredients into dry. Fold in the blueberries. Don't overmix. Bake fore 20-25 minutes.

Lazy Days

Since I took a nap today, I didn't really feel like cooking for myself. So I just plopped in some tortellini with spinach and cheese. I took some Amy's Organic Basil Tomato sauce and added a bit of my quickly going south spinach. It was a quick and easy meal. I supplemented with leftover Arugula Visscysois (sp?).

Then I got the urge to use up some bananas because, for some reason, I bought too many bananas. So I made a vegan banana bread to bring to work tomorrow. I used my momma's recipe, and veganized it.

Veg*n Triathlete's Momma's Banana Bread
Preheat Oven to 350 F (not 400 like I did today)
Blend til creamy: 1/2 c vegan butter (melted), 1 c organic granulated sugar
Beat 3 Tbs hot water and 2 tsp Egg Replacer; add to above
Add 4 mushed up bananas (the older the better)
Add 2 c (whole wheat) flour, 2.5 tsp baking powder, .5 tsp salt
Add a hand-full or more of dried blueberries (or anything else you want)
Bake 1 hour

Then I felt the need to use up the remaining salvagable spinach. It only turned out to be about a cup. So I used my momma's pesto recipe as a very rough base, since I had nothing it called for except pine nuts and garlic. I call it:

Spinach and Arugula Pesto
1 c spinach + 2 handfulls arugula
1/4 c Hazelnut oil
1/4 c pine nuts
1/4 c vegan parmasan grated cheese
1 clove garlic

Whirl all together in a small food processor. I froze it for later.