21st December 2014
It’s what you are
made of that matters to me. Not how you look.
I've not been so ready for a holiday in as long as I can
remember, I'm made absolutely no plans at all because I don't want to feel like
I have to be anywhere or do anything - I can't wait!
I've been awake since 3.30, that's 3 days on the trot now, I
lay there for an hour this morning hoping to go back to sleep, I read a little
but can't concentrate, my brains here, there and everywhere, so I got up, may
as well be doing something, so I've decided to get all my Weight Watcher work stuff
sorted for the new year so that I'm not thinking about it when I break up, it
only has to be done once, so let's do it I say.
I'm not tired so I've obviously had enough sleep and we did
have a super early night last night so it's all good. You'd have been proud of my yesterday, I'd got
our dinner prepared before I went for my massage so that I wouldn't be tempted
to buy lots of rubbish from the Co-op on my way home and was delicious, we had
salmon, roast vegetables and little chunky actifry potatoes, nice, very nice.
Oh yeah and I baked muffins for breakfast, Mango Muffins,
I'd bought 2 mangos and done nothing with them, I'm really not a fruit eater but
I'm trying, so I added them to some muffins and they were delicious, 6pp and
cake for breakfast, don't get much better.
I found the recipe online at http://www.foodlustpeoplelove.com/2012/06/quick-bread-breakfast-muffins.html
and ProPointed it, then added mango instead of blueberries, but as the recipe
states you can use endless substitutions.
They weren't a patch on my raspberry ones or the chocolate banana ones,
recipes here; http://wwbevsworld.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/you-can-have-muffin-without-muffin-top.html,
but they were okay.
Quick Bread Breakfast Muffins, makes 12, 6pp each.
Ingredients
250g plain flour (24pp)
170g sugar (18pp)
1 tablespoon baking powder (1pp)
½ teaspoon salt
240ml skimmed milk (2pp)
115g unsalted butter (24pp)
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 large eggs (5pp)
1 generous cup or about 175g fresh blueberries
Alternative additions in place of the blueberries: raspberries, dried
cranberries, chopped strawberries, grated apples, chocolate chips, raisins,
nuts, cinnamon sugar, etc. (Grated apples AND cinnamon sugar?
Divine. Dried cranberries and white chocolate? Ditto.)
As you can see, the potential is huge and don't forget to ProPoints any
additional ingredients!
Method
Preheat oven to 400°F or 200°C.
1. Put muffin cases in tray.
2. Sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together.
3. In another bowl, melt your butter slowly in the microwave. Then
whisk together milk, melted butter, vanilla and eggs.
4.
Add
all the milk mixture to flour mixture.
5. Gently fold just until dry ingredients
are moistened.
6.
Then
fold in your blueberries or your alternate ingredients.
7.
Divide
your mixture between the 12 muffin cases. Bake 20-25 minutes or until
muffins are golden.
8. Remove from oven and let cool 10-15
minutes before removing muffins from tin.
9.
This recipe can
also be baked as a coffee cake, if you don’t have a muffin tin. Extend
baking time by five to 10 minutes or, once again, until golden.
I also love the wake up muffins recipe which I haven't made
for a while, now I've just looked at the ingredients and it's as if it was
fate, I only bought peanut butter and raspberries yesterday and I've got yogurt
coming in my online delivery tomorrow, they may be on the Christmas cook list,
here's the link to the recipe for you.
http://wwbevsworld.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/let-them-eat-cake.html
All this talk about cake!
It really is too early - NOT! And
yes I did only have the one muffin for my breakfast yesterday, how good am
I.
I'm off to, well I'm not actually sure what I'm off to do
but I'm sure it'll come to me and I hope to be a little productive today,
catching up with a friend tonight over a curry so I'm not ProPointing today,
it's my last meal out of 2014!
Have a super Sunday BeYOUtiful. xx
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