Muffin recipe #1

I did promise this at some point. And just to keep those who probably have been salivating at the mere thought of a good muffin recipe from um...drooling too much, here it is:

1 stick of butter
3/4 c sugar
2 bananas
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1 3/4c flour
1/2 c vanilla yogurt
2 tsp lemon zest
1 tsp orange zest
1 tbsp lemon juice

These measurements are very rough. I usually just eyeball the consistency. Which might say more about how many times in my life I've made muffins more than anything else.

Anyhow: melt the butter, cream the sugar, crush the bananas as much as possible and combine it all in a bowl. Mix well. Add the vanilla, yogurt, baking soda. Mix. Add the flour. Mix some more. Add the zest. Keep on mixing. Add the juice. Use the yogurt to thin the batter if it seems to thick, or add more flour if it seems too runny. It should be like a porridge consistency.

Dollop equally into a greased muffin tin. Bake for almost 30 minutes at 350 until the tops brown a bit and a knife comes out clean. Voila!

Yep, no eggs in this recipe. The muffins will mostly taste lemony, with a hint of banana. The bananas act as a binder instead of the eggs. The best thing I've learned about these muffins is that they remain good the following day...in fact, you can even freeze them and then thaw them out gradually as you want them and they remain pretty good. But maybe that's just for me. They are best served warm out of the oven, of course.