Another Muffin day

view from my kitchen this morning

I had to get up extra early today as hubby needed to get to work even earlier then normal.

It was quiet and I got to watch the sun rise and change the skies colors.

it was a treat...

the recipe called for orange zest...

but I could not bare the idea of dried zest so I opened my eyes wide when handling the mandolin and paid close attention.

I mean making muffins usually doesn't have an element of danger; stir and fold seems to be common place ...but zesting is a whole new level and packs the possibility of shedding blood and or skin.

Needless to say, I paid attention to my actions at this early hour.

The muffins needed to bake a little longer then I expected and the end result is a little dry. 

I am pretty sure I know what needs to be changed. Once again I took one of my trusty loaf recipes and made them into muffins. 

Another yummy hit with tea or milk...but you do need to drink something with them.

Today's muffin:

 Orange Cranberry Walnut

no fingers were harmed during the making of these muffins

Muffin of the day

(this is not me, just a drawing )

When I work at the machine shop I tend to make muffins for breakfast.

I work with all men, and to date, none have turned down the chance to try a homemade muffin.

I get the dry part of the recipe together the night before... 

I don't trust myself to measure things at 5:30 in the morning

Making muffins allows me to wake up early, 

bake the muffins while showering and 

then have a homemade breakfast at work with tea.

The muffins are available to anyone who walks into the office...I have the UPS driver hooked

sometimes I will sway and make cookies, but recently I have been on a muffin kick.

I am trying all sorts of muffin recipes, I mostly lean towards ones that don't have high levels of sugar.

I am going to try and post pictures of them each week

Here is today's:

Carrot-Zucchini Walnut muffins

I have a lot of zucchinis coming from the garden so it was only natural to make these this morning.

I normally make this as a loaf, so I thought I'd try them as muffins instead...they turned out alright.

If fact one of the machine operators said 

"I don't like vegetables and this doesn't taste anything like vegetables, they are really good!"

I'll take that as a thumbs up