Chocolate Chip Muffins

Good morning!  :-)  Lately I haven't been posting on Sundays, but I wanted to share a recipe with you that I made for my hubby and I this AM!

These chocolate chip muffins are super rich and delicious -- I could barely finish one!  They are moist with the perfect amount of chocolate chips in every bite.  I hope you enjoy them!

Chocolate Chip Muffins

Recipe slightly adapted from Bakerella

Yields 12 regular, 9 large muffins

Ingredients

11/2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 cup sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

3/4 cup sour cream

1/4 cup 2% milk

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon almond extract

1/4 cup melted butter, cooled slightly

6 ounces semisweet chocolate chips

Directions

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Line a muffin tin with 12 baking cups -- the prettier, the better.  ;-)

In a medium bowl, stir the flour, sugar, baking powder, and sea salt together with a whisk until combined.

In another bowl, stir together the sour cream, milk, eggs, vanilla and almond extracts, and melted butter.  Stir until combined.

Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until just combined.

Stir in the chocolate chips, then divide amongst baking cups with an ice cream scoop.

Bake 20 minutes or until done.

Enjoy the chocolatey goodness!  :-)

love,

maria

What We're Up To: Breakfast For Dinner

My hubby came home last night from work to a pretty apartment with candles lit and all the right ambience...and -- wait for it -- no food.

That's right.  In my excitement of getting the apartment all nice and cozy for us, I forgot that we didn't have much food in our pantry or in the refridge -- just some odds and ends.  When we both decided that we were hungry enough to eat, I walking into the kitchen and started to scrounge.

Frozen chicken?  Freezer burnt.  PB&J?  No J, no thank you.  But eggs -- we had eggs!  And goat cheese!  And two gigantic beautiful portobello mushrooms that somehow hadn't gone bad yet.  We decided upon breakfast for dinner, and when I said to Grey, "Do you want me to make it?" he looked at me and sweetly said, "Honey -- you know that I am the Egg Master."

Let me tell you -- he's right.  I make breakfast a lot of the time; but he is always, always, always in charge of the eggs.  He's just great at it -- they taste better than the restaurant-egg variety every time -- no joke.  So while he started on the eggs, I chopped up the mushrooms and then threw them in a pan of browning butter and garlic powder.

Our goal was to have the mushrooms mixed in with the eggs, but it turned out even better -- they became a delicious side dish, one in which we could decide our perfect egg-to-mushroom ratio on our own.

We ate at our dining room table which was covered with magazine tear sheets for a project I am tackling today, but it was delicious nonetheless.

And what would a breakfast-for-dinner scenario be without cozy mismatched pajamas to simply add to the relaxed feel of the meal?

That's right -- now you know something about me.  I don't match my jammies.  Sorry, we're keepin' it real here.

love,

maria