{"id":1969,"date":"2014-01-27T08:50:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2014-01-26T20:38:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T00:08:39","slug":"mommy-musing-monday-do-you-know-the-muffin-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2014\/01\/27\/mommy-musing-monday-do-you-know-the-muffin-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Mommy Musing Monday &#8211; Do you Know the Muffin Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to try and post more recipes that I&#8217;m cooking\/baking for Missy Moo. Most of the recipes are perfectly fine for us adults to have, the only real difference I&#8217;ve noticed is that they often have less sugar and while there are often some tasty flavours, there isn&#8217;t anything too crazy or spicy.<\/p>\n<p>For the most part, we give little miss some of whatever we&#8217;re eating. But on days when we&#8217;re having spicy Thai curry or something she may not be ready to sample, we&#8217;re trying out some new things. Oh and don&#8217;t for a minute think that I&#8217;m making everything she eats. There are some great pre-made stuff that&#8217;s convenient and not completely terrible (as in, there aren&#8217;t a lot of of preservatives and there are littler or no chemicals). So if you&#8217;re not making things for your little one, don&#8217;t feel bad. I&#8217;m confident it will not traumatize them and leave them full of hostility when they&#8217;re adults.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago I decided to make some <a title=\"Blueberry Mini Muffins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babble.com\/best-recipes\/blueberry-mini-muffins\/\" target=\"_blank\">blueberry mini muffins<\/a> that I found on <a title=\"Babble.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babble.com\" target=\"_blank\">Babble.com<\/a> in this article <em><a title=\"8 delish muffins for LOs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babble.com\/best-recipes\/8-delicious-mini-muffin-recipes-for-little-ones\/\" target=\"_blank\">8 Delicious Mini Muffin Recipes for Little Ones<\/a><\/em>. There are a few other recipes in that article I want to make in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Since we had some local blueberries in our freezer (thanks to my grandfather), I used them for these tasty little muffins.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26814432@N07\/12162406764\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2872\/12162406764_8abfd20e85.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blueberry mini muffins<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Of course muffins are pretty easy and my only regret is that I left them in for a few minutes too long. They ended up being a little dry, but otherwise were pretty tasty.<\/p>\n<p>I do believe they received a passing grade&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3742\/12162387186_fe0d048ba2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inspecting the goods<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26814432@N07\/12161720365\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3723\/12161720365_079593b815.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Time to take a bite<\/p><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3_z-KDHuTZU?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At around the 1:05 mark in that video above, I think Missy Moo was politely trying to let me know the muffins were a little dry. Ha ha.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you have some recipes that you think are fun foods for babies, please feel free to share them in the comments!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to try and post more recipes that I&#8217;m cooking\/baking for Missy Moo. Most of the recipes are perfectly fine for us adults to have, the only real difference I&#8217;ve noticed is that they often have less sugar and while there are often some tasty flavours, there isn&#8217;t anything too crazy or spicy. 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