Food is on my mind since I have to cook tomorrow. I am delivering dinner to a friend who just had a baby tomorrow and we also have a cubscout dinner tomorrow. And as of now I have no clue what to make for the banquet, but I am making Pasta with tomato and black bean sauce for my friend.

We are simple eaters. We are vegetarians- the boys and me- and their favorite dinner, aside from pizza, is what they refer to as the "Easy dinner" which is basically muffins, fruit, cheese/yogurt/PB and some type of vegetable. I am not the only one around that has peanut butter as a side dish am I? My boys love their PB spoons! But  I love making muffins and quick breads. In the summertime we have an overabundance of cucumbers and zucchini so we make breads which I can freeze for later...or eat immediately (the chocolate zucchini bread was gone quickly). I am planning on growing squash this year to take the place of my numerous pumpkin recipes. So here is one of my boys' favorite muffins:

French Breakfast Muffins

2c flour

2/3c sugar

2.5 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp nutmeg

1 large egg

1c + 2T milk

6T melted butter (slightly cooled)

1 tsp vanilla

cinnamon sugar and an aditional 3T melted butter

Heat oven to 375. Beat egg until frothy, add all additional wet ingedients and mix well. Combine the dry ingredients and then add to the wet and combine until blended. FIll 12 muffin cups. Bake 15 min then rotate pan and cook an additional 5-7 min. Cool on a rack for a couple minutes before removing from pan. While cooling melt the extra butter and have the cinnamon sugar ready. Dip the top of each muffin in butter and then in the cinnamon sugar. These are best served warm. Although they are never around long enough for me to judge the leftover appeal.

Not the most HEALTHY recipe, but I do add at least a little whole wheat flour. My mom turned me on to the King Arthur's White Whole Wheat Flour which I can add for over half the flour and my boys won't notice.