do you know the muffin girl

I have got to think about things other than muffins!

well anyway, it's testing week at AHS, and in a desperate bid to get my students to attend class and actually try on their tests, I am making them muffins. so far I've spent around $8.00 on flour, sugar and eggs. the butter was my own, although I did solicit a donation from Mario's Place. The buttermilk, cinnamon, chocolate chips, bananas, baking powder, baking soda, salt and walnuts were mine too. Time to go to the store again, I think. Or hit up the kids for some donations. This is getting expensive! Mind you, I am not buying the fancy free-range organic eggs or the white whole wheat flour or semi-processed sugar. They are getting factory farmed eggs and Stater Brothers brand flour and sugar! I am saving the fancy stuff for my biological children. sorry 2nd period! pass around the donation hat!

But back to the muffins. So far this week we've had:
banana bread, banana walnut muffins and chocolate chip muffins. I overcooked the banana walnut muffins a bit, but they were still tasty, and the chocolate chip muffins were oddly good. They weren't cloying, as many chocolate chip cookies can be. I am running out of ingredients (and trying to work my way through the muffin cookbook), so today I tried the cinnamon buttermilk muffins. I had some buttermilk I needed to use up. pass the hat! Palagi needs more buttermilk!

These muffins are definitely harder on the outside and taste a lot like doughnuts. Once you dip them in butter, then a sugar and cinnamon mixture, they also remind me a bit of bunuelos. Super tasty and I know the kids will like them tomorrow. Now if I can just keep the chef and my own children from eating them up in the meantime!

I had a request for raspberry almond muffins, but those require fresh raspberries ($) AND almond paste. I have discovered that the almond paste is imported from belgium, and given the sad state of the dollar right now ($1.60 to the euro-yikes!), I think I will have to pass on those. Too bad, because when those muffins are good, they are sublime.

So I am doing A LOT of baking this week. I feel very house-wifely. Next thing you know I will put on an apron when I come home and start calling the kids Johnny and Susie....