Favorite Muffins

You can do this as muffins or coffee cake, I usually do coffee cake and double place in 9x13 pan.

1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup salad oil
1 1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon (optional)

Beat egg-stir in milk and oil. Mix in remaining ingredients; just until flour is moistened. batter should be lumpy. Fill muffin cups 2/3 full. Bake at 400 for 20-25 minutes. Makes 12 muffins.

OPTIONS: You can add blueberries, or other fruit, or jelly to the middle of muffin then add more batter on top. We like to make a cinnamon crumb to put on top and double the recipe.

Cinnamon crumb top: (for one batch)
1/2-3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup butter
1/8-1/4 cup flour
cut together to make crumbly and place on top of coffee cake before baking.

Easy Breakfast Casserole (Alison Pantry)

4 slices bread
6-8 sausage patties, cooked and drained. Crumble.
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
6 eggs, beaten
2 cups milk
1 tsp dry mustard

Grease the bottom of a 9x13 pan. Tear up 4 slices of bread and place in the bottom of the pan. Sprinkle cooked, crumbled sausage over bread pieces. Sprinkle cheddar cheese over the sausage. Mix eggs, milk and mustard together; pour over casserole.

Bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes.

Crunchy Granola (Alison Pantry)

3 cups rolled or old-fashioned oats
1/2 cup wheat germ
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 cup water
1 cup Turkish Apricots
3/4 cup Sliced Almonds
1/2 cup ground flaxseed
pinch salt
1/4 cup canola oil
2 tsp Sweet Vanilla Powder

Preheat oven to 300. In a large bowl, combine the oats, almonds, wheat germ, flaxseed, cinnamon and salt. In a small pot, heat the honey, oil, water and vanilla over medium heat, whisking and cooking just enough to combine it well, about 1 minute. Drizzle half of the honey mixture over the dry ingredients and mix well. Add the remaining half and mix until thoroughly combined. Arrange the granola over 2 baking sheets in an even layer. Bake for 30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes. Allow to cool. Add apricots. Store in an airtight container at room temperature.

Makes 5 1/2 cups or 11 half-cup servings.