MUFFINS!!!

I made these for an office pot luck and boy were they both a hit. I HIGHLY recomend making the flavored butters that go with each one it is a party in your mouth!

Apple Pumpkin Muffins
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 eggs
2 cups sugar 1 cup canned or cooked pumpkin
1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice 1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon baking soda 2 cups finely chopped peeled apples
1/2 teaspoon salt

STREUSEL:
1/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 teaspoons cold butter or margarine

Directions
1.In a bowl, combine the first five ingredients. In another bowl, combine the eggs, pumpkin and oil; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in apples. Fill paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. In a small bowl, combine sugar, flour and cinnamon. Cut in butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over batter.
2.Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from ans to wire racks.

Maple Butter
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup maple syrup
1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
Directions In a medium bowl, mix together the butter, brown sugar, maple syrup and pumpkin pie spice until well blended. Chill in the refrigerator, for about 30 minutes. Form into a roll using waxed paper and store wrapped. It can be frozen for later at this point if desired.


Cornmeal-Cranberry Muffins
Ingredients
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup orange juice
3 tablespoons butter, melted
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 cup cranberries
Preparation
1. Stir together first 4 ingredients in a large bowl; make a well in center of mixture. Add buttermilk and next 3 ingredients, and stir just until dry ingredients are moistened. Fold in cranberries. Spoon batter evenly into 12 paper-lined muffin cups, filling two-thirds full.
2. Bake at 425° for 20 minutes or until lightly browned and a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove muffins from pans to wire racks; let cool 15 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.

Orange Honey Butter
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 tablespoon honey
Zest of 1 small orange
Directions
1.In a small bowl, cream butter until light and fluffy. Mix in honey and orange zest.

Hy's Manly Breakfast Burritos'

We would like to introduce our very first cooking guest. He is the the old man of Serving Wench # 2, he is also known as Hy. This is a concoction of his own that he has slowly been mastering over the past ten years. So here he is:

Somehow I have been given the task of being the honorary first post of this blog of culinary delight(not for the weak stomach). I'm not sure why I was asked, perhaps The Jones women have finally realized that I do have some valuable information retained in my mental Rolodex of white trash recipes.

But before I get started and since I have the microphone right now I would like to share my political opinion with you. I really, really, really hate OBAMA and the people that voted for him. Thanks for destroying the country I love. I hope you and the illegal aliens that hit you in your car all die in a fiery crash as you race to the hospital to get your free health care that I'm paying for....

Okay! Now lets get started.

"Hy's Manly Breakfast Burritos"
6 eggs
1 Tbs. milk
1 Cup Colby jack cheese
1 cup Roasted Green Chilies(Very important, Must be from NM)
tortillas(the ones made with lard)
1 tube of ground breakfast sausage(not the cheap stuff w/lots of fat)


Mix eggs and milk. Cook sausage till brown and then add chilies. Cook until most all liquid has burned off. Add eggs. Stir and flip till no uncooked running egg goo can be seen. (If your old and eat most of your food from a blender than I suppose you could keep them runny, but that makes me want to heave). After fully cooking add grated cheese. Now heat you tortillas and start wrapping them up! Makes 1 to 6 burritos depending on how modest you are. Enjoy...you'll thank me tomorrow.

These are some delicious tortillas Wench #3 brought from AZ. They are packed full of lard and almost see through, the best!

Green chilis that Wench #3 brought to Wench #2 in KS also, as they are unavailable in KS.

Green chilis and sausage

Burrito filling

The finished product! Yummmy!