I found this recipe on pinterest or stumbleupon or flicker or craftgawker or tumblr or I have no idea! You could spend your entire life going from one social networking site to another looking at blog after blog of things, things that after awhile could make a person feel like an inadequate slob for not being able to transform a thrift store kitchen table into an amazing wall mural that is both elegant and kitschy. But in all honesty, it's a hard addiction for me to avoid. I looorve stumbleupon and pinterest especially and I could spend hours on etsy convincing myself I could make this or that. It's a problem. *sigh* One that I'll just have to live with.
So back to the muffins. I found this recipe
here. I loved the idea of having a snack for the kids for after school or in their lunches that I made out of just two ingredients - and two ingredients I often have in my cupboard. Why I always have an extra can of pumpkin in the back of my pantry is a total mystery to me - but there it always sits among the extra cans of black beans and diced tomatoes. So I went ahead and made these this morning - except I made them in muffin form and added a half of a bag of chocolate chips I needed to find a use for. They're pretty yummy! Mostly they taste like pumpkin muffins, you don't taste a lot of the yellow cake mix in there and I could not make them look pretty - but that's okay (refer back to my suspicion of too pretty food). They have a denser consistency than your typical cake or muffin batter which means it didn't lay in the muffin cups very uniform, even though I used an ice cream scoop like usual. But other than that, easy peasy - you should try them out.
Also this weekend I worked on several projects. A couple I'm not revealing at this juncture - but I had a request for one of my apple cozies and then a friend has asked me to make a little man sweater vest for a baby boy (who is to blame for the sweater vest return? I'm not complaining - I love them myself - even wore a couple in high school, which were not at all cool... but I'm wondering, is it that kid on Glee? Justin Timberlake? Who has pushed this fashion forward? Personally, I'd like to think it was Harry Potter, but I always like to think it's Harry Potter). But do you know, those aren't easy to find! I could not find a pattern anywhere so I made it up. This was my first attempt - however, it's going to need to be in a stretchier yarn (this one I just used in worsted weight since I was practicing - but I rarely ever use plain ol worsted weight yarn, I generally stick to cotton if I can). But as my dear bff pointed out - how exactly are you going to get a baby into that thing? Only baby contortionists can wear it - and I think that's a pretty small demographic. So back to the drawing board....
So back to the muffins. I found this recipe here. I loved the idea of having a snack for the kids for after school or in their lunches that I made out of just two ingredients - and two ingredients I often have in my cupboard. Why I always have an extra can of pumpkin in the back of my pantry is a total mystery to me - but there it always sits among the extra cans of black beans and diced tomatoes. So I went ahead and made these this morning - except I made them in muffin form and added a half of a bag of chocolate chips I needed to find a use for. They're pretty yummy! Mostly they taste like pumpkin muffins, you don't taste a lot of the yellow cake mix in there and I could not make them look pretty - but that's okay (refer back to my suspicion of too pretty food). They have a denser consistency than your typical cake or muffin batter which means it didn't lay in the muffin cups very uniform, even though I used an ice cream scoop like usual. But other than that, easy peasy - you should try them out.
Also this weekend I worked on several projects. A couple I'm not revealing at this juncture - but I had a request for one of my apple cozies and then a friend has asked me to make a little man sweater vest for a baby boy (who is to blame for the sweater vest return? I'm not complaining - I love them myself - even wore a couple in high school, which were not at all cool... but I'm wondering, is it that kid on Glee? Justin Timberlake? Who has pushed this fashion forward? Personally, I'd like to think it was Harry Potter, but I always like to think it's Harry Potter). But do you know, those aren't easy to find! I could not find a pattern anywhere so I made it up. This was my first attempt - however, it's going to need to be in a stretchier yarn (this one I just used in worsted weight since I was practicing - but I rarely ever use plain ol worsted weight yarn, I generally stick to cotton if I can). But as my dear bff pointed out - how exactly are you going to get a baby into that thing? Only baby contortionists can wear it - and I think that's a pretty small demographic. So back to the drawing board....
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