November 6th, 2008

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Flax-Apple-Chocolate Chip Muffins

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

These muffins are heavenly!  Yum…

This recipe was modified from a recipe found on a Hodgson Mill Milled Flaxseed box.

Flax, Apple, Chocolate Chip Muffins

  • 1/4 cup Hodgson Mill Milled flax seed
  • 3/4 cup Hodgson Mill whole wheat graham flour
  • 3/4 cup white flour
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 egg whites beaten
  • 1-1/2 cups finely chopped apples
  • 3 TBSP olive oil
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Blend all dry ingredients.  In another bowl add the egg whites, olive oil and milk.  Add the liquid mixture in with the dry ingredients.  Next add the apples, nuts and chocolate chips and mix just until blended.  Fill greased muffin pan.  Makes 12-14 muffins.  Bake at 400 degrees for about 15 minutes or until golden brown.

These were a BIG hit.   

Lynn

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Rituals

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

The sun may be shy today, but we can still take our walk, and talk of happy things, and laugh.

Let’s say hello to our favorite tree.  As you rub your hand across the rough bark are you thinking what I’m thinking?   Thank you for being the same today because I needed you.

There’s a face – or two or three –in this little neighborhood of ours who would want to know that we’re okay. 

Give me eyes to see my own life from a higher plane.

Back at home, we have a gift that cannot be measured:  family and love and a treasured routine of living every day so that we all might be here again another day, together. 

Play and climb and laugh and be of good cheer!  And let my heart enter into all of that with you! 

Enjoy today the sweet rituals of home. 

Home’s not merely
four square walls,
Though with pictures
hung and gilded;
Home is where
Affection calls –
Filled with shrines the
Hearth had builded!

Charles Swain.

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