Banana oatmeal chocolate chip almond muffins

Can i put more things into these?!?! Anyway, like I said, I am moving Saturday so I was going through my food and realized I had too many bananas and leftover oatmeal and almonds plus a bag of chocolate chips. So I had to figure out how to put them all together and this is what the outcome was! I am SURE these are to be a hit with friends and family!! Great breakfast item!

Recipe:

1.5 cups of oats (toast them in oven at 375* for about 10 min or fragrant)

1 cup all purpose flour

1.5 cups whole wheat pastry flour

1T baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp allspice

1/8 tsp cloves

1 stick of butter melted

3 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1/4 cup canola oil

3/4 cup milk

3 ripe bananas mashed

1 cup chocolate chips

1 cup chopped almonds

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375*

Combine first 8 ingredients (all dry) (minus choc chips and almonds). Combine butter through bananas (all wet ingredients). Pour wet into dry just until incorporated. Fold in chocolate chips and almonds. Scoop into muffin tins with liners. These don't rise too much so you can fill them full. Bake until golden brown on top...could be 30 minutes. They are delicious directly out of the oven. So warm and fluffy! Happy breakfast eating :)

Apology!

Hey friends. I have no clue how many people are reading this blog or not...but for those of you who do, I have to apologize for this upcoming week. I am working M-F from 6-2 in waukegan and then packing because I am moving on Saturday! WOOHOO! Which not only means that I am busy packing, but all of my kitchen will be packed :( trust me, this is sadder for me than you can even imagine! I will TRY to bake at least once because I don't know if I can go the whole week without it!!! In any case, instead, I am reading a great book about facts that you would never know about food! So I am going to post a tidbit daily that HOPEFULLY you didn't know about! Maybe we can all learn together! Here is todays:

Is there a nutritional difference between dark meat and light meat on a chicken?

Dark meat (the leg, thigh, and back) has two to ten percent more calories than does the light meat (the breast), depending on the bird; fryers are more caloric than roasters. (fyi- fryer is a chicken between 6-8 wks old and weigh between 3-4.5 lbs. roasters are between 2-6 months and can reach up to 8 lbs). Dark meat also has slightly less protein and about 1/3 more fat. Both are low in cholesterol and supply comparable amounts of A and B vitamins and calcium!

Have a great sunday!!!