The Best Banana Muffin Recipe

This the best banana muffin recipe I have had. Yummy Yummy! These are one of my kid's favorites. I think they like them because they have chocolate chips in them. They will eat anything with chocolate! Here is the recipe:

1/2 cup butter softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar packed
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups mashed banana
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

Mix together butter & sugars. Beat in eggs, banana & vanilla. Combine flour & baking soda. Add to banana mixture, mix until moist. Stir in chocolate chips. Fill muffin cups half full. Bake at 350 for 15- 20 minutes yields about 18 muffins. Hope you like them as much as we do!

Yummy Pancakes

This year for Christmas we gave out homemade pancake mix! This is made up of 6 different grain's. This is a favorite on my husband's side of the family. I got the recipe from my mother in-law and it is quite delicious. We had many of the grains in our food storage. If you have a Winco grocery store you may be able to buy the grain's there.

Six-Grain Pancake Master Mix

6 cups soft wheat kernel

1 cup barley

1 cup rye

1 cup oat groats

1 cup brown rice

1 cup triticale or millet (opt)

4 cups nonfat dry milk

2 tablespoons salt

1 cup baking powder

Grind grains together in wheat grinder. Then add remaining ingredients and mix well.

To make the pancakes you will mix

1 cup of six-grain pancake master mix

1 tablespoon oil

1 egg

1/2 to 3/4 cup water

Mix until ingredients are combined, cook on a nonstick griddle, turning once. Enjoy!

Slow Cooker Chicken Stroganoff

This is a very easy recipe and very delicious. The whole family loves this! It calls for mushrooms, but we make it with out and it is very good. I hope you enjoy it as much as we have.

6 whole boneless skinless chicken breast halves
1 package dry Italian dressing mix
12 ounces of cream cheese
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
12 ounces sliced mushrooms (optional)

Put chicken in slow cooker and sprinkle with dry dressing. Cook on low for 5 hours. Mix together cream cheese and soup (I use my electric mixer). Add to chicken with mushrooms. Cook until warmed through and mushrooms are done to your liking, about 30 minutes. Serve over rice.

Cupcake Disaster

I have never had so much trouble baking cupcakes. It was my son's birthday last month so we were taking cupcakes to school to share with his class to celebrate his 6th birthday! I can't believe he is all ready 6. He wanted chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting, no big deal cupcakes are easy to make! So we made some chocolate cupcakes and put them in the oven. I wasn't sure why, but they burned. We decided to try agian with a yellow cake mix, because I didn't have any more chocolate. This time I set the timer for less time than I thought they needed. This time they looked like volcano's! They cooked around the edges and then started to bubble up in the center like a volcano. These first two batches I had used a different brand than I normally do so I was sure it was something wrong with the batter. We tried one more time! This time I was sure they would come out just fine. I went back to the brand I normally use and set the timer for 10 minutes (they normally take 18 to 22 minutes). The timer went off and I went to take them out of the oven and they were burned. I came to the conclusion that my oven is broken! I think the problem is that it can not regulate its temperature, it just keeps getting hotter and hotter. I was beginning to think that the problem was me! So my son decided he wanted to bring No Bake Cookies (don't need the oven for that!). Here is my recipe for No Bake Cookies:

2 TB butter
1/2 cup milk
2 TB cocoa
2 cups sugar

Place ingredients in a pot mix together and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and add 3/4 cup peanut butter and 1tsp of vanilla. Mix until peanut butter is melted than add 2 cups of quick oats. Mix together and drop by spoonful onto wax's paper or foil.