Really, is being foodie a gene we pass around from mother to child?
Last week I reached home from work and I got an excited call from my four year old who has just been picked up from her preschool by her dad.
Last week I reached home from work and I got an excited call from my four year old who has just been picked up from her preschool by her dad.
"Mommy, I have a great idea - let's bake something today! Let's bake cherry pie!" she said in her most excited voice.
It was a school night and I had plans for dinner and then had some office work lined up -- so I tried to derail her from the plan "but we don't have pie crust at home honey, so let's bake on the weekend, okay?" I say.
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Being a true foodie, to that she says "but we can make it, right? you can ask Google how to make crust! Google knows everything"
hmmm.. "well yes, I can do that but how about we go to park instead or (reluctantly) may be I'll let you watch a Daniel Tiger instead!"... "no, let's bake something please" she says.
Wow, if today baking ranks above park and (gasp) TV then two things are for certain: 1) we are baking something today and 2) I have got a little foodie at my hand -- foodie is indeed a gene!
Pie crusts can be tedious so we instead settled on using up some of the fresh spring strawberries from farmer's market to make strawberry muffins instead.
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Muffins are super easy, here is what you will need:
(makes 9-10 large muffins)
(makes 9-10 large muffins)
Dry ingredients:
- 1-3/4 C whole wheat or all purpose flour
- 1/2 C brown sugar or white granulated sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- handful of chopped walnuts (optional)
Wet ingredients:
- 1.5 C chopped fresh strawberries
- 1/2C milk
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 C vegetable oil
Recipe is super simple too:
- Pre-heat oven to 375
- Mix the dry ingredients and set aside
- Mix the wet ingredients
- Add the dry mix to the wet ingredients and mix well
- Line up a muffin tray with liners. Add enough muffin mix to each pod to fill it completely
- Bake for 20-25 mins until the top looks toasted and it's cooked through (insert a toothpick in one muffin to check)
- Remove from oven and enjoy!
So that's how we spent our evening -- baking muffins, then taking their photos and devouring them with milk and a hot cup of green tea!
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