Last weekend I went to the Festival of Trees for the first time. My niece performed with her dance class. The pictures I took came out very blurry, but the dancing was really cute. The picture above is the Christmas tree that was decorated with Hershey bars. We all like chocolate so that tree was an eye catcher. The boys almost became chocolate snatchers. Anyhow, I enjoyed my time there and hope to go next year.
I know there was something I wanted to do this month before it was gone. Did I do it? No.
Well, all I can say is that even though November is almost gone, I think I have been productive. I have made a few of my Christmas presents, which is an accomplishment. Also, I have had some productive days at work as well as semi-chaotic. Next month will be crazy busy! It almost seems wrong for me to say that I am looking forward to it.
I hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving day! Last night I finished reading a book by Gary Paulsen called The Haymeadow. The main character, John, talked about the beauty of the mountains and he couldn't find one thing ugly about them. Well, I ran a 5k that our ward sponsored this morning and I was thinking about the book as I looked at my surroundings. Even though I don't care for the winters up here, at least it is beautiful up in the mountains. As I freeze this year, I hope that my appreciation of what is around me isn't numbed like my fingers and my own ugly toes.
Muffins from scratch are amazing, especially when you are using fresh fruit. I had some left over sour cream from the chili cook off I needed to use, so I decided to use it in mom's muffin recipe. Then I sent Ariana to the store to get me the berries.
Going on a berry hunt Going to buy some blue-berries.
Blueberry Muffins
Wet mix: 1 stick melted butter
1 cup sour cream
1 egg
1 tsp of vanilla
Sir wet mix in medium bowl.
Dry mix: 1 1/2 cups flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup sugar (you can use 3/4)
Mix dry ingredients in small bowl. Fold dry mix into wet mix and then gently fold in 1 cup fruit (blueberries, raisins, currents, cranberries or other berry). Spoon into muffin tin with cupcake paper-liners. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until brown on top. Makes 1 dozen muffins.
These are very quick to make and turn out very moist. If you let the sour cream get to room temperature the recipe turns out better. However, I used my sour cream straight out of the fridge and they turned out great. If you make the muffins with cranberries make sure to grate some orange peal into the mix for some added flavor. Yummy!
I read this during lunch today and it made me laugh.
"In short, he so immersed himself in those romances that he spent whole days and nights over his books; and then with little sleeping and much reading, his brains dried up to such a degree that he lost the use of his reason." Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saaverdra
I might be in trouble of losing my own reason. heehee!!!
