Banana Nut Muffins with Yogurt Icing

Did you guys know that Banana Nut Cheerios are a thing? They are, and they're amazing. My boyfriend told me about them about a month ago, and my brain has been in banana nut mode ever since. Besides eating big bowls of the Cheerios with him, I've put bananas and peanut butter in my oatmeal, shared a caramelized banana/walnut gelato creation while out for dinner one night, and browsed dozens of banana nut muffin recipes online (I used to be pretty heavily addicted to Tim Horton's banana nut muffins in university). An obsession has been unleashed.


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Carrot, Apple and Pecan Muffins

A couple days after I moved back to Canada, my mom and I drove to my uncle's farm near Sedgewick for Thanksgiving dinner. It was an Albertan crash course - nothing reacquaints you with your homeland quite like a day driving through its countryside. We saw geese and deer and moose, and the coyotes were just starting to howl at each other as we left the farm.


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Baklava Muffins

I don't celebrate Easter at all - I mean, I do in the sense that there are usually Mini Eggs in the house around this time of year, but that's where the festivity ends. I spent the long weekend in Red Deer catching up with my mom (and sister, on the phone) and seeing my friends. There was shopping and dog-walking and Moxie's and beer pong. Classic.


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