Breaking the Spell

Sometimes when I haven't written the blog for awhile (like the whole month of January), it gets harder to post. I'll just jump in with what we did Friday after school.

Chocolate pumpkin muffins.

Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
3/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
3 T ground flax meal
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups sugar (can substitute 3/4 c. agave)
10 oz canned pumpkin
2 large eggs
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
8 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 375. Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl. Combine the pumpkin, sugar, eggs, milk and vanilla and mix well. Add the dry mixture to the pumpkin mixture and stir just until moistened. Add the melted butter and stir until incorporated--don't over-mix. Stir in the chocolate chips. Bake in 12 muffin cups, lined with paper liners or sprayed with cooking spray.
Bake for 20 - 25 minutes or until the center is set.

Right behind R's hand are the most irritatingly-named environmentally friendly baking cups. "If You Care." It's a good product, but who wants to be nagged by their cupcake papers.

Everything in my house is bothering me. The art on the walls, which I keep taking down and moving around, the furniture, the lack of a mantel and fireplace screen. We sanded down the big white chair to get it ready to refinish. The couch is next.