Carol's famous Blueberry Muffins

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Blueberry Muffins

LOGISTICS: Maddie is finally back from her trip to New Jersey! She brought back with her a pile of recipes and a car load of antiques (of course mostly floral) for her new apartment which we are helping her move into on Wednesday. Maddie had the pleasure of staying with Ben's family for most of her three week vacation. Ben's mother, Carol, is an excellent cook and taught Maddie a ton of neat cooking tricks and shared many delicious recipes. Besides meal after meal of rich Italian food, bagel sandwiches, and more than the occasional cheese burger, Maddie enjoyed Carol's homemade baked goods. One of her favorite: These blueberry muffins.

Since Blueberry season is just starting we had to resort to store-bought ones.. dun dun dun. We plan to pick some this weekend!

Here is the recipe:

- We OREGONIFIED the recipe ( yes, we did just make that word up) by using whole wheat flour.

- Our only difficulty was getting the muffins out of the pan to eat. Make sure that you grease the pan and plan for a messy muffin.

TABLE TALK:

- Ashley and Ali's upcoming trip to San Francisco to see some of Ali's college friends and Ashley's aunt who is expecting the arrival of her new baby while we are on the trip. Yay!

- Ali and Ashley's plan to kidnap Maddie for our road trip down! Shhh

-Maddie's apartment move in tomorrow. We are hoping to cook our first meal and pop open a bottle of 2 buck chuck later this week :)

- Our conflicted sumer schedules and Ali's absence because of work today. We are proud of her scoring the nordys job though!

- Our success yesterday with our crusade to convert everyone into ZUMBA fanatics. We added a new member, Carter to our posse of cha cha chaers

- The rapid disappearing muffins although Ashley and Maddie are the only ones present.