Little Red Hen

I really don't have time to post.  Really.  I have a boatload of stuff to get done, but I'm determined to blog fast, then work really hard to catch up.

{Smiley face}

I woke up this morning with my usual ambitions:  to be the best mom/wife, who gets the most done, in a kind and efficient manner.  Since today was Thursday, and Lex and Shi have a break between Seminary and school on Thursdays (I'm telling you, school schedules these days are skewed), I decided to make muffins for them (for the second week in a row, might I add).  Since I used the rest of the opened church-cannery applesauce (from an ancient batch... you know, kinda brown on top... that Bill is determined NOT to throw out, but to use... I think we have a dozen or more bottles left...) in my muffins last week (yum-o, btw), I decided to make banana muffins today.  Not only am I going to be an awesome mom/wife, I'm going to do it with variety and flare.  And, as luck would have it, I had these beauties in the freezer:

I know, they look totally disgusting, but my girls were at Seminary (and Mar still soundly sleeping)...
they would never know.  

{Smiley face}

After a short defrosting period in the microwave, I slipped those slimy innards out of their brown nasty peels, and mashed away.

Because my ambitions of the morning were to be the BEST mom/wife ever, I decided to swap out some of that super-processed white flour with some whole-grain, fiber-filled, nutritious wheat flour.  That I would grind myself.  Just like the Little Red Hen.

I whipped out the grinder.

This little baby?  Worth it's weight in gold.  Thanks, Mom, for the recommendation.  Within moments, I had a supply of freshly-ground wheat flour.

(I know... I'm a mess.)

Then the Little Red Hen (that's me), transformed that flour and those frozen bananas into something truly scrumptious.

Not the most beautiful, and slightly overbaked (you would think I would learn to adjust times and temps when using those dark baking pans... it was a little too much effort for this morning), but yummy AND somewhat nutritious.  

I think my Rooster and Chicks were happy and satisfied.

Here's the super simple recipe:

Best Ever Banana Muffins (I didn't name them, but I like it)

3 lg. bananas

3/4 cup sugar

1 egg

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

1 1/2 cups flour (I use half white, half whole wheat)

1/3 cup melted butter

Mash bananas.  Add sugar and slightly beaten egg.  Add the melted butter.  Add the dry ingredients.  Bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes.  Adjust your temp (350) and time (15-20 mins) if using dark pans.  {Smiley face}  Makes 1 dozen (I doubled the batch this morning...FYI, in case you are one of those uber-observant people who might conclude, from the above pictures, that you should get 2 dozen from the recipe.)

Back to my boatload.  Which includes taking out the garbage containing those nasty slimy banana peels that are stinking up the house.  The smell of overripe brown bananas takes me back to queasy stomachs on long road trips from the years of my youth.  Random thought, I know.