{"id":359,"date":"2012-10-26T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/26\/i-stand-by-my-assessment"},"modified":"2015-12-16T18:14:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T23:14:48","slug":"i-stand-by-my-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangette.net\/2012\/10\/i-stand-by-my-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"I stand by my assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know. The universe does not need another recipe for a banana baked something. And yet.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a rainy Friday afternoon, and I have a couple of hours(!) home alone(!) to do whatever(!) I want(!), which is mostly to eat H\u00e4agen-Dazs coffee ice cream and stare at the wall. Brandon and June are out on the town, having a lunch date at a friend\u2019s new restaurant. I hope June is polite and doesn\u2019t spit up at the table or get totally milk-drunk and harass the server – or that, if she does, she at least tips well. Baby jokes! It\u2019s come to this! God, I am so, so sorry.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been wanting to tell you about this recipe for several weeks now. I first made it on September 7, a Friday. \u00a0I remember the date because I was in very early labor that day, though I wasn\u2019t entirely sure of it yet. My mother was in town, and we were trying to keep ourselves occupied. There were three overripe bananas on the countertop, and I felt like baking. But I had already made two banana breads and stashed them the freezer, so for the first time in recorded history, banana bread seemed like a bad idea. Instead, I got out Kim Boyce\u2019s excellent book<\/a>\u00a0and thumbed through it until I came to a recipe for Banana Cereal Muffins.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have a picture of said muffins for you. But I\u2019ll go ahead and let you in on a secret: they\u2019re not especially beautiful. They look like muffins, muffins that might even be good for you. They\u2019re brown and lumpy on top. But they are<\/i>\u00a0very, very delicious: tender and with a hearty crumb, faintly buttery, intensely perfumed with banana. They were the first thing I ate after June was born, and though I\u2019m sure the astonishment of that moment has biased my opinion somewhat, I stand by my assessment of the muffin. I can\u2019t remember why, but Brandon had to feed it to me – maybe I was holding the baby? – and rather than putting the whole thing up to my face, he broke off bites and put them in my mouth. It was a very sweet gesture, except that the bites he gave me were tiny, as though he were feeding an injured bird, and he kept getting distracted by something – it must have been the baby, who, yes, I must have been holding – and soon I was barking, “MORE MUFFIN. THE MUFFIN. GIVE ME THE MUFFIN.” Which, of course, is nothing new.<\/p>\n\n

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Banana Cereal Muffins<\/h2>\n

Adapted from Good to the Grain<\/a><\/i>, by Kim Boyce<\/h3> \n \n <\/header>\n\n
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