Ecclesiastes 3 says: "For everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven."
Today I added another verse. A time to leave the kitchen.
And you know it's time to leave the kitchen when you decide to make cranberry bran muffins, Heart Healthy muffins. As we age, bran becomes an important staple in our diet, and how better to get our bran than a delicious cranberry bran muffin. You chop up your cranberries and think 'Wow! I could probably double this recipe.' You check your ingredients and sure enough you have enough to double the recipe...just barely enough. You put your bran and milk in the mixer...enough for a double batch... and let it set, like the recipe states, and then you start to mix your dry ingredients. When suddenly it dawned on you that you had only put in enough of the dry ingredients for one recipe. You go back and put in another mixing of ALL the dry ingredients. Then you start to double check the recipe to be sure you didn't leave anything out. It is then that you realize that you put enough sugar in for FOUR recipes... you had already doubled that amount of sugar once and turned around and doubled it again! (moan and groan)
You have to make a choice, do you make some very sweet not so heart healthy muffins, or do you add enough ingredients to quadruple the recipe to match the sugar. That is when you realize you do not have enough cranberries or eggs. Maybe making a triple recipe would keep it from being so high in sugar. Then when you start to triple your recipe, a senior moment sets in. You can't remember what ingredients you have adjusted.....and you start second-guessing yourself on EVERYTHING you put in it!
I don't know if I got it all right or not... except for too much sugar, but maybe there is enough bran in it to balance the bad stuff and still be somewhat heart healthy. Now I need to figure out what I'm going to do with 48 (minus three already consumed) cranberry bran muffins.
Time to leave the kitchen.
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