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Easy and Delicious Homemade Blueberry Muffins
6:27 AM Filed UnderBreakfast, Mouthwatering Monday
These blueberry muffins are nothin’ fancy, but they are absolutely delicious! Some of the best dishes are simple and basic, no need for frills and twenty dollar ingredients.
This recipe is an adaptation of the Blueberry Muffin recipe found in the Bisquick Cookbook.
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Blueberry Muffins
Makes 12 muffins
- 2 Cups Bisquick Baking Mix
- 1 Egg
- 2/3 Cups Milk
- 1/3 Cup + 1 Tbsp sugar (and more for the tops)
- 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 2 Tbsp Sour Cream
- 1 Tbsp applesauce
- 1 1/4 Cups fresh or frozen and thawed blueberries (or raspberries, strawberries, blackberries it’s your call)
- Mix dry ingredients together and then add in the wet ingredients, don’t add in the blueberries yet, blending well.
- Gently fold in the blueberries until they are evenly distributed throughout.
- Spray your muffin tins well with a baking spray with flour (I looove Pam for Baking)
- Using an ice cream scoop or larger spoon, spoon the batter into muffin tins about 3/4 full. For an added yum sprinkle the tops of the muffins with sugar before putting them in the oven.
- Bake about 18 minutes in a 400 F oven, or until the tops are golden and the muffins spring back when touched.
- Cool a few minutes in the tins and then use a butter knife to gently go around the sides of the muffins to help loosen them and then cool them on a baking rack until ready to eat.
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These are a family favorite around here, the kids burn their mouths trying to devour them first, Nathan loves them with a bit of cinnamon butter and I enjoy them with apple butter or no butter at all. The hot bursts of the blueberries, combined with the savory hint of cinnamon and crisp crunch of the sugar glazed top… these will be a hit in your house, too.
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It’s All About the Moms
9:19 PM Filed UnderEverything Else
You gave me life.
You grew, changed and altered for me and you continue to inspire me daily with your strength.
Even when you feel you are at your weakest… you are still the strongest woman I know.
I love you Mom.
Happy Mother’s Day.
On the day Princess was born, so was I.
I went from being just Rachel. Rachel the woman, the friend, the wife. To being Rachel, The Mother.
We learned together, we continue to learn together. We stumble, we fall, we get back up again. My child has taught me so much about love, laughter and self. I hope that I can continue to humble myself before her and also show her what true strength is.
I hope she will always know that her conception, her birth, her life… have changed me profoundly and I am a better woman and mother because of her.
I never believed that I could love a second child as much as the first. But it’s true.
On the day Monkey was born, a new Mother was born again. I became the mother of a boy, a Mother of a second child. This is a different kind of mothering.
You must be more adept at multi tasking and being in two places at once. Now with a boy I am charged with raising a man and being the example of the kind of woman he should strive to find as his own wife and mother of his children. I am the example to which he will compare every girl in his life.
What a weight, but what a blessing.
Monkey has changed me with his love, his sensitivity, his brilliance and his sneakiness. He has made me faster, smarter and better.
Mothering is a blessing. Whether your child is born of your body or your heart, you are forever changed the first time you look into their eyes.
Of all the many hats we wear and many jobs we hold in our lives.. being a mother is the hardest and easiest, it is the lowest paying and highest rewarding, it is the most frightening and yet most reassuring. Being a mother is the most profound experience of them all.
For in being a mother, our truest selves are finally discovered.
Happy Mother’s Day, Momma
Happy Mother’s Day, Me.
Happy Mother’s Day to you.
You are a blessing to your family, your friends and the world as a whole.
The future owes itself to you.
