Banana Muffins

What do you do when you have left over bananas that know one will eat?!?!? Make BANANA MUFFINS! Then everyone eats them :) No wasteful food in this household, everything gets brought back to life.

Got everything ready to go!

Added flour and such, made my well and added the milk and egg.

Just keep stirring, just keep stirring ( watch Finding Nemo one to many times :) )

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Notice two missing my girls just couldn't wait to eat them :) Proud Mama

Receipe Courtesy of Better Homes and Garden Cookbook.

Muffins

Prep time 10 minutes 

Bake time 18 minutes

Oven 400F

Makes 12 or so muffins

1 3/4 Cups all- purpose flour

1/3 cups sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 egg beaten

3/4 cups milk

1/4 cup cooking oil ( I use olive oil for everything and I never notice a difference)

1. Preheat oven to 400F. Grease muffin tin or use muffin cups or lined paper bake cups. Set aside. In a medium bowl combined flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Make a well in center of mixture, set aside.
2. In another bowl combined egg, milk, and oil. Add egg mixture all at once to the flour mixture. Stir just until moistened ( batter should be lumpy.
3. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling each two-thirds full. Bake for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown and a wooden toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool in muffin cups on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Remove from muffin cups, serve warm.

• Banana Muffins, prepare as at left, greasing muffins cups ( do not use paper bake cups ). Reduce milk to 1/2 cup. Stir 3/4 cups mashed banana and 1/2 cup chopped nuts ( I don't prefer nuts in my baking products, though I do enjoy them by themselves. Weird I know ) into flour mixture along with the egg mixture.

I hope you enjoy making these and finding a new purpose for your older, ripened bananas.

Olive garden Bread sticks?!?!? Yes Please

I found a recipe for making what pretty much taste like Olive Garden bread sticks. I love them, who doesn't? So I gathered up the cooking supplies and set forth on my mission to see if we would include this recipe into our life. It passed with flying colors! Yippie Skippie.

So here is everything you need minus the pasta noodles that was for dinner. :)

Here I have added water, sugar and yeast. Lets stand for 10 minutes.

Added salt, butter and 2 cups flour and cup at a time after combined with first 2 cups.   

 Let dough rest in bowl for about an hour. Then roll out in a BIG log :)

Cut that log into about 12-14 little logs and roll them out into little perfect logs.  

Place on lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake in low heat take out coat with butter,then  turn heat up and bake for rest of time.

The finished product. One is missing a bite, because my girls just couldn't wait!



Recipe

Dough:
1 1/2 cups warm water
2 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp yeast
1 Tbsp salt

2 Tbsp butter, softened
4-5 Cups flour


Topping:
3 Tbsp butter melted
Sea salt
1 tsp garlic powder



For the dough, pour  water, sugar and yeast in bowl and  let sit and froth for about 10 minutes. Add salt, butter, and 2 cups of flour. Mix the dough . Add the rest of the flour a cup at a time, until dough scrapes the sides of the bowl clean. Mix the dough about 5 minutes until its soft and easy to work with.
Let the dough rest in the bowl until doubled in size, about 1 hour I place a towel over my bowl and set in the oven. Nice warm draft free place. Roll the dough out into a long log, spray a knife with cooking spray and cut the dough into 12-14 pieces. Roll those pieces into about 6 inch long logs. Spray 2 large cookie sheets with cooking spray and lay the bread sticks out leaving about 2 inches between each one.
Place them in the oven with the temperature turned to 170 degrees. Let them rise for about 15 minutes, or until doubled in size. Once risen, brush them with the 1 1/2 T of melted butter and sprinkle them with salt. Now preheat the oven to 400 degrees and bake them for 12-14 minutes or until golden brown. While they are baking combine the rest of the melted butter with 1 tsp garlic powder. When the bread sticks are golden brown, remove them from the oven and brush them with the butter/garlic mixture.