April 27
Goalie

Menu
- Wheat Germ Buttermilk Pancakes
- Sausages
- Mango
- French Fries
- Zucchini Muffins [View Recipe]
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Ingredients
- 1 large egg
- .5 cup sugar
- 1 cup zucchini (grated on box grater)
- .25 cup oil
- .25 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1.5 cup flour
- .5 teaspoon baking soda
- 1.5 teaspoons cinnamon
- .125 teaspoons baking powder
- .25 teaspoon salt
- vegetable cooking spray
Instructions
We start by preheating the oven to <temp val="325"/>. Into our batter bowl, we crack the egg and whisk until light and foamy. We add the brown and white sugars and stir well. Next, we add the grated zucchini and stir with a spoon.
Into a small measuring cup, we combine the oil and buttermilk and add the vanilla. We mix into the batter bowl.
We put our fine strainer over the large batter bowl and add the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt and sift into the wet ingredients. We blend with the spoon until just incorporated.
We spray our mini muffin tin (24 count) with the non-stick spray and then fill 16 of the muffin cups with the batter, using two spoons. We want the muffin cups ¾ full. The remaining 8 empty cups are filled with a little water to keep them from burning and the muffin tin is placed in the oven.
We cook the muffins for 15 minutes and check to see if they are done. They are not quite cooked through, so we continue to cook them for 5 minutes. We want a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin to come out clean and the muffins to be lightly browned on top.
The pan is removed from the oven and set aside to cool for a few minutes before removing the muffins to a wire rack to cool completely.
After dinner, Chris and our son played MarioKart while Robin took our daughter to lacrosse. The baby was very tired from her day babysitting with Robin at Sarah's, so she dropped right off to sleep after baths. Chris read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban to our son, making it through another 2½ chapters.
Our daughter had a wonderful time playing lacrosse. She was goalie tonight—and she even caught one shot. She had several more bounce off her, which is what goalies are for, after all. Her teammates certainly appreciated her—they kept patting her on the helmet when the shots would bounce off her head.
Not uncommon for us, dinner did include some leftovers—the french fries were from dinner out at Cheeburger Cheeburger earlier this week (doctor's appointment). Everything else was new, mostly courtesy of the newest Maryland goalie sensation.