One Minute Muffin Recipe

     I haven’t been taking the best care of myself the past few weeks. I’m on a deadline for a new cookbook and the dirty little secret of cookbook writers is that while you’re recipe testing you eat really, really well, but when you’re actually writing? You eat lots of fast food and consume litters of chocolate bunnies.

I guess I should clarify that by saying that You means Me. I’m sure there are some better disciplined people who would never eat a chocolate bunny.

I seem to not be that person.

Anyway, I’ve begun to emerge from my sugar coma and have fallen in love with the One Minute Muffin. It’s not a crockpot recipe.

Instead, it’s healthy, inexpensive (after you buy the flax meal), packed with fiber, and low-carb. My kids will tolerate them, but aren’t falling over themselves to eat one. They still prefer chocolate to One Minute Muffins. They also still have ridiculously high metabolisms…

The Ingredients:

1/4 cup flax meal

1 egg

1 tablespoon butter

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon cinnamon (not pictured, sometimes I use pumpkin pie seasoning)

1 1/2 teaspoons sweetener, I use honey

1 tablespoon fresh or frozen blueberries (or smashed banana, shredded apple, etc)

hearty coffee mug sprayed with cooking oil

microwave

The Directions:

 Put the first 6 ingredients in a large glass measuring cup or bowl, and whisk to combine. No need to melt the butter or get it to dissolve–if it’s still in a clump, it’s okay. Mostly try to get the baking powder evenly dispersed. Now stir in the blueberries or whatever fruit you’re using. Pour into a greased coffee mug and microwave on high for 1 minute.  Let it sit for a bit, then pour onto a plate; or you can just eat it out of the mug with a spoon. The butter will have melted and made a tiny bit of a “sauce” with the melted blueberries. YUM.

The Verdict:

This is a pretty customizable recipe; feel free to swap out the honey with splenda, agave, brown sugar, etc. There isn’t a drop of flour, making this a naturally gluten free muffin, and if you use non dairy butter it could certainly be dairy-free and I’m imagining an egg-replacer would work okay. If you change up the ingredients and it works, let me know!

It tastes good. Not oh-my-gosh-this-is-the-best-muffin-ever, but actually pretty good considering it’s made completely out of flax meal and has just a tiny bit of sweetener. You can certainly junk it up by adding lots of sugar and more oil, but it’s really actually pretty good just like this. I like that the flax has so much fiber and the egg has a nice shot of protein so if I eat this along with my morning coffee I’m pretty sustained until lunch time.

have a great day, and enjoy your muffin!

 

362nd day of 2010

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I have a new book out today. I tested all the recipes and wrote this book before the baby was mobile. It was a challenge, but I knew that if I waited until she was moving around, I’d never get it done. There were days when I had 8 crockpots going at a time, and when they were finished, I’d hand out the food and fill em’ up again.

it was kind of nutty.

and wonderful.

absolutely wonderful. The baby turns 1 January 6, and she is all over the place. If she’s awake, she doesn’t hold still—toddling from room to room. Santa surprised her with a pink wooden toy kitchen. Today she spent a good hour banging pots on the fake range, “cooking” Kix cereal and shoving the soggy round balls into my mouth, one at a time.

I am so lucky to have this time with my children, and with this new little one. My heart breaks when I think about what would have happened if I hadn’t stumbled upon the idea of starting a crockpot blog.

she might not be here.

and that’s not okay.

Thank you. Thank you so much for finding me, supporting me, supporting my family, and for being my friend.

and thank you for loving your crockpot (almost) as much as I do.

Today:

daily 7

rework your personal goals. if you haven’t completed them, it’s okay. Most people over-estimate what they can do in 1 year, but under-estimate what they can do in 5. Tweak. Rewrite. It’s all good.

call a good friend and listen more than speak

it’s my birthday!

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so I’m taking the day off.

HAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!

Today:

keep a thankful heart

remember that every little bit you do IS important and IS appreciated

if you have to go to the store, go early and be cheerful. If you have to go late in the day, still be cheerful.

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the weekend!

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If you’re having a house full of people for Thanksgiving, start prepping now. Do any major cleaning that you feel you *must* accomplish in order to feel confident. Do you need to wipe down the kitchen cabinets? Move out the stove and clean underneath? the fridge? Clorox wipe the blinds? You know yourself, and you know what is important—and it’s different for every person. I like to Cinderella-clean the kitchen floor. Twice. I like to go over it once with a Magic Eraser, then again with a scrubby sponge and cleanser. And then I sponge mop. It’s nuts, it’s overkill, no one notices OR cares, except for me.

It makes me feel good.

What’s the one thing that will make you feel really good, really accomplished? Get it over and done with now, so next weekend you can begin prepping food and setting out platters.

This weekend:

deep clean the one thing that bugs you the most

daily 7

make a timeline for Thanksgiving. Do you have to do a butcher run? a bakery run? delegate side dishes? borrow crockpots? Write it all down, so then you can outsource the tasks.

Monday 312

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Good morning! How was your weekend? I’m happy to report that the bees have moved on. We seemed to have been a stop for a migrating colony, and they have evidently relocated thanks to Duraflame.

I’m looking forward to an uneventful week—the kids have gotten lots of sleep thanks to daylight savings time, and the big girls and I made 9(!) stops in the morning before 10am. It’s quite difficult to find rain boots in November while it’s raining…

Today:

meal plan for the week, and make a plan for Thanksgiving

weekend recovery

PROM the china cabinet and wherever you keep your fancy table linen

Tuesday run errands and make stuff happen

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Good morning! At my in-law’s cabin there’s an alarm clock in the guest room that has a very loud voice that yells out “Wake Up! Don’t Sleep Your Life Away!” as it’s wake up call.

It’s loud. It’s kind of annoying. But it definitely gets everybody up!

What’s your today looking like? Are you awake? Are you living in the moment? Are you aware of your surrounds, your actions, your thoughts, your knee-jerk reactions?

Today:

daily 7

run errands

make sure meal plan is current

Wake up! Don’t sleep your life away!

Halloween weekend 2010

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Have a wonderful Halloween!

Be safe. Have fun. Take pictures.

Breathe.

this weekend:

keep up with the daily 7 as much as you can

keep your sense of humor

be nice to your relatives/family

figure out your plan with the candy, and stick to it. I usually let the kids eat whatever they want on Halloween, then they each pick out 10 (or so, whatever is age appropriate)  to keep. The rest goes to the toothfairy.

300!!! I think. right?

300!

I was wrong yesterday. Sara pointed out that it was actually the 299th day yesterday, not the 298th, which makes a lot of sense because when I posted the 2008 flashback thing yesterday on the crockpot site it said that it was day 300 (which again makes sense because 2008 was a leap year).

confused yet?

I totally am. THANK YOU, Sara, for having my back. I really, really appreciate it.

Today:

I’m pooped. We went out for a b-day celebratory dinner last night, and we had super slow service, and the baby is of the age where she does. not. want. to. be. contained. in a highchair at all. Nor does she want to have an inside restaurant voice.

so we got a late bedtime routine, and I was behind in answering email, and so I’m just pooped.

POOPED.

~~insert giggle and a: heehee, she said “poop”~~

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and that’s it.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.–
Ralph Waldo Emerson

tuesday! check meal plan, run errands

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We are fast approaching the 300th day of the year, and I’m realizing it is going to land on my grandpa’s birthday. That’s neat. I wonder if he knows that? Unless it’s a leap year, that should be a natural phenomenon, right?

oh neat! wordpress automatically spelled phenomenom right for me. neat.

Today:

run errands

make sure your meal plan is set. Sunday is Halloween—have your meal plan get you through this day so you’re not at the store this weekend.

Now! buy candy. only so you don’t have to run another errand later in the week. If you don’t trust yourself, put it in your husband’s trunk or something similar so it’s out of sight and hopefully out of reach!

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Your stomach shouldn’t be a waist basket.  ~Author Unknown

Tuesday: run errands; make sure you actually did your meal plan

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Hello! If you have errands to do, get them done and over with. How’s your meal plan going? We’re having crockpot turkey breast tonight, which will provide leftovers for Wednesday, and probably a bit more for lunches the rest of the week.  Thursday night we’re going to have some sort of  bean soup because I’ve got the ends of a few bags of dried beans taking up valuable real estate. Friday night I’m at BlogHer so Adam will probably do Taquitos, and Sat night the kids are at grandma’s.

Today:

daily 7

run errands

meal plan

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