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Fresh Strawberry Muffins

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I love the sights, sounds, smells and feel of spring.  Everything is fresh and new again.  My old fashioned rose is excited too.  It is blooming more and more every day.  Memorial Day is this weekend, and just like that the heat is on. Here comes summer!

Roses

We are finally getting some good strawberries here in the stores.  So I proceeded to use some of those in some muffins for Sunday morning breakfast.  These little muffins are not real sweet to taste but they are sweet to see.

Strawberry Muffins

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Fresh Strawberry Muffins

These can be served dusted with powdered sugar or served plain.

What You Need:

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1 extra large egg
  • ½ cup milk
  • ¼ cup vegetable oil
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • ½ teaspoon butter flavoring
  • 4-5 drops red food coloring
  • 1 cup diced strawberries + 2 tablespoons sugar

What You Do:

  1. Preheat the oven to 375°. Line a muffin tin with paper liners.
  2. In a medium bowl whisk together the dry ingredients.
  3. In a small bowl lightly beat the egg.
  4. Add the milk, flavorings, oil and food coloring to the egg and combine.
  5. Add the wet to the dry ingredients and mix just to combine.
  6. Fold in the strawberries which have been macerating in the sugar.
  7. Fill the muffins cups abut ¾ full and bake for 15 – 18 minutes.
  8. Allow the muffins to rest in the tin for 5-8 minutes and remove to a rack to cool.
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Easy to Grow-My Garden View

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Easy to Grow

Source: Easy To Grow, Flower Poem www.FamilyFriendPoems.com

I don’t have a lush garden. I live in very dry, West Texas. I do have spots of color and I direct my eyes to those bright spots. I celebrate anything I plant that comes back the next year and usually plant more of that. This year things are about a month behind where they were last year. I think that ground hog really messed up the weather this year..

My Old Fashioned Rose was a 50-cent find in a basket of almost dead plants about 15 years ago. It has grown, survived major freezes, dry, rainless summers and still has a rush of blooms in early May each year.

Mrs. Potter is a piece of garden art I constructed and with a little rehab she surveys her court of flowers in baskets and pots each year from a corner of my patio . This year she got new gloves and a new “flower head” to keep her as bright as the flowers surrounding her head and her feet. Once upon a time she was surrounded by the most beautiful star jasmine. Most of it died back one winter. But it is struggling valiantly to return. There are more blossoms this year. The scent is still wonderful when the breeze blows across the little white blooms.

The Knock Out roses have been prolific this year. So I planted 6 more with hope they will take to the spot I selected for them. I have a new vine with a brilliant pink bloom. A Mandeville. I hope it will cover a bare spot in a nice shady corner of the garden.

The herbs are so nice to have just outside the door. I’m trying thyme and lavender again. I think I will flag them with yellow tape so the yard man won’t pull them up again when he comes to clean.

And I have pots of purple petunias all around. They attract the butterflies and survive the heat of the day all summer. So they are my friends!

In the Garden

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What’d You Do This Weekend? #16

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Welcome to the new week. If you are a regular here thanks for coming back and if this is your first time, welcome! I hope you enjoy the party.

I am settling back from my vacation this weekend (BORING).  So, this is really what I did this week.  I will continue my vacation story from last week.  On Monday after Mother’s Day we went to a fabulous little Amish shopping village near Lancaster, PA called the Kitchen Kettle.  They had lovely quilts, really cute clothespin dolls and the most AWESOME cooking store.  I love gadgets and they had lots of em.  The find of the day, we all agreed, was this silicone bowl cover.  It forms an instant lid.  It is good for the picnic table, refrigerator, the microwave and even the oven up to 450 degrees.  This isn’t an ad, so just Google sunflower silicone bowl cover.

I could go on and on about kitchen and cooking stores.  You’ll see more finds in my upcoming work.  Then we saw the Great Gatsby and I was disappointed.  The movie wasn’t for me, but Leonardo di Caprio is cute.  Now I am home and after I watch my two grand-girls it is time to get back to work!

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Middle Sister Picks

Tumbleweed Contessa’s picks:

Wonderful Wreaths from Mums Make List

Simple Kitchen Quick Tips from Family Home and Life

Grilled Eggplant Caprese Quinoa from I Got This Martha

I Got This Martha: Got Time For A Lunch Quickie?

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