Orange Blender Muffins - The Perfect Breakfast

I still have an abundance of oranges in my fridge from a "Buy One Get One Free" sale a few weeks back. Still surprisingly good for out of hand eating I discovered this morning. I was going to make some marmalade with the rest to use as an ingredient in muffins I had seen on The Pioneer Woman yesterday, but that would be a little too much work for this rainy windy lazy kind of day!

 

My sister, Chrissie, makes these amazing Orange Chocolate Blender muffins but I didn't want the chocolate. (I know, a little crazy right?!) I was thinking a little more healthy and more on the breakfast side of things. She told me to leave out the cocoa and the chocolate chips and they'd be fine! Hum, great idea! I also added a little sugar and oat crumble on top like the ones I saw on TV though for a little added crunch. They turned out wonderful!

 

Here's how it goes:

 

1 Orange, washed and cut up in pieces

1/2 cup OJ (I used fresh squeezed, 3 oranges)

1 Egg

1/2 cup Butter or Margarine, melted

1/2 tsp. Vanilla

1 3/4 cups Flour

3/4 cup White Sugar

1 tsp. Baking powder

1 tsp. Baking soda

 

Topping:

1 cup Oats

1/2 cup Brown Sugar

1 tsp Cinnamon

1/4 cup Butter or Margarine, melted

 

Preheat oven to 400 degrees and fill a dozen muffin cup with paper liners.

In a small bowl, mix all topping ingredients together until crumbly. Set aside.

In a blender (or you could use a hand blender and a tall container) blend orange and OJ until as smooth as possible.

Add the egg, melted butter and vanilla. Pulse until smooth.

In a medium size bowl stir together flour, white sugar, baking powder and baking soda.

Add blended mixture with flour mixture and stir until just combined.

Evenly distribute batter among all 12 muffin cups.

Sprinkle with oat topping.

Bake for 20 minutes.

 

All ready for the oven!

 

Now, while these lovely smelling muffins are baking, wash up those dishes and brew yourself a cup of coffee! I guarantee you're going to want to have one as soon as their ready!

 

 

Perfect!

 

Not Your Regular Turkey Salad Sandwich

So that Turkey I cooked Tuesday is still in my fridge. Well, some of it anyway! It was a little larger than I had thought and even after having it for a full meal Tuesday night, making  a large pot of Turkey Noodle soup, sandwiches yesterday for lunch and sandwiches for todays lunch, I still have some left to use for another meal! I'm sure my boys won't be requesting Turkey anytime soon!



 

Not Your Regular Turkey Salad Sandwich

Makes 2 sandwiches

4 Slices of Multi Grain Bread (I have been baking my own using this recipe from Robin Hood Great Grainery Bread )

2 Tbsps. Butter or Margarine, for spreading

1 1/2 cups cooked Turkey, chopped fine

2/3 cup Mayo 

10 Kalamata olives, pitted and chopped fine

1 Tbsp. dried Basil

2 Tbsps. chopped green onion or chives

S & P

2 large leafs of Romaine lettuce

 

In a small bowl, mix your olives, basil, green onion, salt and pepper with your mayo. Taste it and adjust the seasonings to how you prefer them. Mix with Turkey.

Slice your bread to the desired thickness and spread with butter or margarine.

Place a lettuce leaf on 2 of the 4 slices and top with Turkey Salad mixture.

Top with remaining pieces of bread and slice on an angle! Serve with a dill pickle on the side and some crunchy sticks of carrots and celery! (Or potato chips! Whatever works for you!)

 

 

Enjoy!



Spring is in the air....

The sun is shining. The wind is blowing softly. The windows are open and the fresh air fills my house. Ahh! Spring is here! I really didn't think it was ever going to get here! I have been waking early every day since I got home from work. Hard to sleep in past 7 a.m. when your body is so use to waking at 4:30 a.m.. Staying awake past 11 p.m. is a battle as well! Oh well! So much more productive in the morning anyhow.

 

This morning I made my hunnie breakfast before he left for work, had some tea and started on a batch of bread. I made a pot of Roasted Red Pepper and Sweet Potato Soup and stuffing for my Turkey I am cooking for supper. I then set out looking for something to make for dessert for supper. I found a bag of PC Mixed Berries in my freezer and on the back was a great simple recipe for Berry Buckle. Perfect!

 

Berry Buckle

 

1 1/2 cups flour

3/4 cup flour

1 tsp salt

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1/4 cup melted butter

2/3 cup milk

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla
 

3 cups mixed frozen berries

1/4 cup sugar
 

Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease a 8 x 8 glass baking dish.

Mix all dry ingredients in one bowl. Mix wet in another.

Stir the two together and pour in prepared pan.

Toss berries with sugar.

Sprinkle the berries evening over the cake mixture.

Bake for 55 to 60 minutes until golden. Do not over bake!

Cool for 20 minutes and serve with Vanilla Ice cream! :)

So here it sits, ready to go! Turkey is in the oven and smelling lovely, the soup was a huge hit at lunch time and now I'm relaxing till my house fills with family ready to dig in to a nice big supper! The simple things!

xo