Streusel Topped Blueberry Muffins

Streusel Topped Blueberry Muffins

Taken from Allrecipes.com

Tested by DH, DC, and YCGP

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups fresh blueberries
• 1/2 cup butter
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon lemon zest
• 1/2 cup milk

Topping:

• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 5 tablespoons white sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons butter, diced

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375*. Grease 12 muffin cups.
2. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in medium bowl. In a small bowl, sprinkle 1 to 2 tablespoons flour over blueberries, and set aside. (This simple trick will keep you from having "purple" batter)
3. In a large bowl, beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, and stir in vanilla and lemon zest. Fold in dry ingredients alternately with milk. Fold in blueberries. Remember, fold gently, don't stir. Spoon batter into prepared cups.
4. For Topping:  combine flour, sugar ,and cinnamon in a small bowl. Cut inbutter with fork or pastry blender until mixture resembles course crumbs. Sprinkle over batter in muffin cups.
5. Bake in the preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center of a muffin comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire rack.

Guinea Pig Rating:  ***** (5/5)

What I did:  I followed the recipe, except for the lemon zest and salt.
What will I do next time:  Add a 1/4 cup more milk to make the dough a little thinner, but it still tasted AWESOME!!!!

Potato wedges

Potato Wedges

Tested by DH, DC, and YCGP

Ingredients:

3 medium potatoes

olive oil

sea salt

Italian seasoning

garlic powder

Directions:

1.  Preheat oven to 425* (or just use the same oven as the above recipe)

2.  Grease baking pan with olive oil.

3.  Wash potatoes and proceed to cut potatoes in to quarters, and then into slices.

4.  Lay slices onto pan, trying to keep skin in contact with the pan.

5.  Spray slices with olive oil and sprinkle them lightly with:  sea salt, Italian seasoning, and garlic powder.

6.  Cook them for 30 minutes or more (depending on how thick you cut your slices).  Keep checking them until they are cooked all the way through.

Guinea Pig rating:  ***** (5/5)

What I did:  Followed this recipe to the letter!  Wonderful! No ketchup for these potato wedges!

What will I do differently next time:   My daughters didn't care for the spices, so next time I will make some spiced ones for Mommy & Daddy and plain ones for the girls.  My DH did ask me to not put as much sea salt on next time.