{"id":2024,"date":"2014-02-18T06:59:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T13:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2014-02-18T07:01:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T14:01:27","slug":"my-banana-muffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=2024","title":{"rendered":"My Banana Muffins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made up this recipe because I couldn\u2019t find one that was exactly what I wanted. I wanted banana bread \u2013 but as muffins. I wanted cinnamon and nutmeg and nuts in the muffins. I wanted them to taste good and sweet and be a little healthy, but not overly so. I also wanted to use up 2 bananas.<\/p>\n<p>I like big muffins, so I made only 10 muffins in my 12-muffin pan. Make 12, if you like, just shorten the baking time a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Banana Muffins<br \/>\n<\/strong><a name=\"recipe\"><\/a><em>makes 10 or 12<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 3\/4 cup flour (can use part all-purpose and part whole wheat pastry flour)<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup oatmeal (quick cooking)<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon baking powder<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon baking soda<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 teaspoon salt<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon cinnamon<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon nutmeg (preferably freshly grated)<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup chopped walnuts<\/li>\n<li>1 cup total volume of a mixture of plain yogurt and milk (it&#8217;s your choice as to how much of each you want to use)<\/li>\n<li>1 egg<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup oil<\/li>\n<li>2 bananas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Preheat oven to 375\u02da. Get your muffin pan ready. (Line with cupcake papers, or spray with non-stick spray, or do neither, depending on your pan.)<\/p>\n<p>Combine the dry ingredients and the nuts and set aside. (Do not consider the brown sugar a dry ingredient; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/chefs\/alton-brown.html\">according to Alton Brown<\/a>, sugar is a &#8220;wet&#8221; ingredient.)<\/p>\n<p>Combine the yogurt\/milk mixture, egg, brown sugar, oil, and bananas. Mix well with a mixer or an immersion blender, until the bananas are mashed and mixed well with the other wet ingredients<\/p>\n<p>Quickly combine the dry and wet ingredients. Do not over mix! Fill muffin cups (12 for sedate and small muffins, 10 if you like them over the top).<\/p>\n<p>Bake for 18-22 minutes, until golden brown. <a href=\"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/OatmealMuffins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2027\" alt=\"My Banana Muffins\" src=\"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/OatmealMuffins.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/OatmealMuffins.jpg 450w, http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/OatmealMuffins-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>These are my over the top muffins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made up this recipe because I couldn\u2019t find one that was exactly what I wanted. I wanted banana bread \u2013 but as muffins. I wanted cinnamon and nutmeg and nuts in the muffins. I wanted them to taste good &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=2024\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-muffins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}