Po Girls Mangy Muffins

Zuchinni zuchinni everywhere and nothing else to eat! That was the ditty my darling and I were singing to ourselves the other day as we searched our bare cupboards for a bite to eat. Breakfast was either going to be hot water with lemon or cold water with lemon. We were out of everything! LOL. No bread, no milk, no eggs, no cheese, no meats, no cereal, no oatmeal, nuttin honey! All I had left were two very overripe bananas on the counter (so ripe the skins were black, ew) and a bunch of zuchinni that we inhereted from generous friends, family, and neighbors.

Ya, I should have gotten me arse to the store for a shopping but with the heat and humidity and me being 8 months pregnant with our very active child, I kept putting it off. Something to do with feeling wiped out and having feet that hurt and not getting a good night's rest in the past several weeks... I dunno. ::snickers::

So yes, here we have an AMAZINGLY DELICIOUS and wonderful zuchinni muffin recipe that I threw together - except the extra fun part is this is a poor girl's special! I googled substitutes for nearly everything I would have needed to make this right... well not nearly everything- but most of things we were out of...

No milk- no problem - don't need any!

No eggs- no problem - I googled egg substitute and found out I could use those two over ripe bananas for 2 eggs. I also found out I could substitute 2 tablespoons of corn starch per egg... so that's what I did! Instead of using 4 eggs for this recipe I used 2 bananas and 4 tablespoons of cornstarch. Eggs = done.

No brown sugar - no big whoop- I used a cup of white sugar with my dry stuff and added two tablespoons of molasses to the wet stuff = brown sugar. Done!

No vegeteable oil- nobody cares - I used a cup of olive oil and a half cup of canola oil - good as new. Oil = done!

I was also out of Crisco and Pam (either of which I would have used to grease my muffin tin) So I took a stick of butter wrapped in butter paper and smeared that around the tin to grease it up. Bingo. It worked!

• 3 cups sprouted flour (or plain if you have it)

• 2 cups brown sugar (or make your own like I did)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• Cinnamon to taste ( a few sprinkles maybe a table spoon?)
• 4 eggs (or substitute like I did)
• 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
• Splash o vanilla extract
• 3 zuchinnis grated by hand or in processor whatever works for you
• lots of raisins (a cup or so)
• some walnuts (a half cup or whatever you want)

Dry stuff in one bowl, wet in the other. Blend the two. Add the zuchinni and raisins and walnuts at the end. Spoon into muffin tins. Oven to 350 for 20 minutes. Done and done. And yum yum yum!

To really sweeten the deal - I made a crumble topping from 1/2 cup flour, 1/2 sugar, 1 stick of butter cubed and food processor the whole thing until you get a crumble. Spoon on top of muffins before baking. Delish! Oh and yes- they are the magical muffin to get you going in the morning- Here we go go go!
XOXO <3 Udo