What is there not to love about Sunday, especially when nothing is planned and you have the whole day stretched out before you. It’s even better when Izzy sleeps a little longer than her usual 6am – last week it was 8.30 – awesome!
James & Izzy headed out for a swim and Mummy got a lie in – bliss! A lovely peaceful morning. I started off flicking through my new Jamie Magazine which only arrived yesterday. I really enjoyed Jamie’s America and this edition of the mag follows on from that. There is a really interesting article that goes behind the scenes of the Wild West episode – I didn’t realise quite what goes into making a series like this!
So I made it to page 38 (of 138) and then found the Banana & Coconut Breakfast Muffins – straight down to the kitchen to get these in the oven ready for James and Izzy’s return! Super easy and really really good – perfect Sunday morning muffins!!! Another triumph for Jamie!!
Banana & Coconut Breakfast Muffins (courtesy of Jamie Oliver – Jamie Magazine, Issue 6)
Ingredients:-
100g melted butter
250g self raising flour
1 level tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
100g honey
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 large ripe bananas, chopped
2 large eggs
150g plain yoghurt
4 heaped Tbsp desiccated coconut
Vegetable oil for greasing
Preheat the oven to 190C. Bung the ingredients into a food processor with a pinch of salt and pulse for the minimum amount of time it takes to get a paste. Don’t over mix it or the muffins won’t be light.
If using paper cases, put those into your muffin tin, if not grease the tin with a little oil and spoon in the mixture. If you want, you can top them with a slice of banana, a raspberry or a sprinkle of desiccated coconut.
Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until lovely and golden. Check that the muffins come away from the side of the tin when touched, Let them cool for 10 minutes before scoffing.
These are definitely going to be a more regular feature in our household. Izzy also took a couple over to our lovely neighbour, Sam.
The rest of the day was about left overs and using up what was in the house already. Izzy enjoyed the last of the Celeriac Soup and finished the lot without too much coaxing and then headed off for an afternoon nap (2 days in a row and no grumbles going down – yay!). There was a little bit of bribery of watching Annie and Daddy making popcorn when she woke up – it worked.
Looking in the vege bin we had a build up of odds and ends again and that calls for another batch of Pasta e fagoli. This time made with celeriac, pumpkin (surprise, surprise!), a baby turnip, a few new potatoes, mushrooms, celery, corn and asparagus. Yum yum!!
We still had an abundance of apples left from last week (despite my best intentions of making apple butter) and so James whipped up an apple crumble (no – we do not make desserts every day, or even every week!) and juiced the remaining apples. The crumble was delicious – great way to finish the weekend!