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When you actually sit down to "describe" yourself, it's actually a bit daunting! Let me just say, I'm a Mom of 2 young boys, a wife, I work full-time and am blessed to be surrounded my many friends and a very involved extended family. I can often be found in my kitchen, in my pyjamas of course, cooking dinner or baking or lamenting over the dishes to be done. I like the comfort and serenity that puttering in my kitchen offers. It is sometimes calming, sometimes a disaster, most times a mess but always filled with love.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

My Muffins bring all the Boys to the Table

Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins
 On Sundays I often try to make muffins or banana bread for snacks and lunches for the coming week.  This week I did a variation on my Lemon Blueberry Muffins and it turned out to be a rather successful mission.  My boys and Lovely husband all sat down at the table to have a muffin.  Silence reigned, but for the chewing.  Needless to say, these muffins didn't make it past Tuesday.
Anytime I cook with lemon zest or orange zest I'm always amazed at the intensity of the aroma and flavour this simple, fresh ingredient produces.  I actually use a  "microplane" type of grater, it makes it a finer zest but you can use a zester or even a box grater (on the smaller side) if that's all you have. 

Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

In a large bowl mix together:
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
3 tsp. baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Zest of one large naval orange or 2 regular sized oranges


In a seperate bowl mix together:
1/2 cup melted butter
1 egg
1 cup of milk
(I usually melt butter before I start everything else to give it a chance to cool slightly.  It will curdle milk mixture a bit but this is ok-kind of a homemade buttermilk)

Fold wet ingredients into dry, batter will be lumpy.  Gently fold in 1 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips.
Make sure you spray muffin tin with cooking spray before evenly pouring into a 12 muffin tin. 
Bake 20-30 minutes.


Mister "I don't like it" cleared his plate
Happy Cooking!
J.
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  1. kathryn g.4/06/2012 01:57:00 AM

    Sounds delicious, Jen - looking forward to trying them myself!

    I love almost anything with orange in it. my current orange-y flavoured baked goods are: orange chocolate chip cookies made with zest and milk chocolate chips (because i don't like semi-sweet) and a chocolate cake made with a cup and a half of OJ (as well as a tblspn of coffee, to help bring out the chocolate taste, but is totally weird for me given i don't like coffee at all).

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