Tonight is one of those nights when I actually don’t feel like cooking. It’s cold and I’ve had a hard day. Right now something simple and easy is exactly what I want.
When I feel like this I often have ‘Breakfast for Dinner’. Some of my favourites are:
Eggs on toast.
Scrambled eggs with cheese and onions and a quick salad.
Boiled eggs and soldiers.
Eggs, chips and baked beans.
Tasty, comforting and easy to make!
I am enjoying your recipes, ideas and musings very much. I am sending you a very good muffin recipe which you may find useful at some point. By the way these are REAL muffins not cupcakes masquerading as muffins! I have adapted these from various recipes I have found on the internet and I call them:
ANYTHING GOES BRAN MUFFINS
2 cups of any “bran flakes with raisins” cereal
1/4 cup wheat bran
1/4 cup high fiber “all bran” type cereal
(This mix can be added to with other fiber sources- oat bran, wheat germ etc, etc- experiment, experiment!)
1 1/2 cups low fat milk (I use skim)
2 tbsp & 2 tsp oil ( I use Canola oil)
1 egg (I use large/extra large)
1 1/4 cup unbleached flour
1/4 cup dark brown sugar (you could use honey instead)
3 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
5 chopped dates
5 chopped apricots
about 10 chopped walnuts
Can also add dried cranberries or other dried fruit
or fresh fruits ( Very good with fresh blueberries)
Heat oven to 400 degrees- for celsius use 205 degrees. Bake for 18-25 minutes- until golden brown so need to test your oven for this.
(I have a fan force oven and use 180 degrees and bake for 15-18 minutes)
Mix “cereals” and milk in bowl in large bowl and let stand for about 5 minutes- you want crisp or hard cereals to soften. I also add my fruit and nuts at this point- dust these lightly with flour before adding.
Beat oil & egg (add a few drops of vanilla if you wish).
Add to milk/cereal mixture.
Mix remaining ingredients ( I add about 1 tsp cinnamon & 1/3 tsp ginger to this but add any spice as you wish)
Add this “dry” mixture to “wet” mixture & stir until moistened- don’t over-stir.
Oil 12 medium size muffin cups and then divide batter evenly amongst these.
These can be frozen.
They are not that large (or overly sweet) & 2 of these make a very healthy and satisfying breakfast.
Cheers and keep up the good work
Hi Carol! Thank you so much for your comments. I am delighted you are enjoying my blog posts. This recipe sounds wonderful and bran muffins happen to be my favourite (with Blueberry coming a close 2nd).
I have found that here in the UK – muffins do tend to be more like cup cakes – which is always a disappointment – and to be honest I don’t think I have even seen a bran muffin over here. Never mind as with your fantastic recipe I am going to make some myself – I don’t think I’ll have many left to freeze though!
I will let you know how I get on and please feel free to share more recipes!
all the best, Luna xx