Heather Honey Muffins

I used to bake all the time when my boys were children. I’d make cookies and muffins for their school lunches every week. Even at a young age, they seemed to appreciate my efforts. And, yes, I did enjoy some of the ‘fruits of my labour’ too.

I recently found my favourite muffin recipe in a pile of old papers. It is something that I used to make all the time. I originally found this recipe many, many years ago in a magazine, not even sure which one at this point. It may have been Canadian Living. The last bit of the instructions are long gone but I'm sure most of you can figure it out.

What I particularly liked about this one was the fact that I could finely grate carrots to put in the mixture and the boys never knew. You had to get vegetables in them anyway you could. As a side note, I shredded carrots to put in my homemade spaghetti sauce too and they never realized it. I eliminated the raisins in the recipe because I dislike raisins in anything: cookies, muffins, rice pudding, etc. I do like eating raisins on their own though. Weird, I know.

I don’t bake anymore for a number of reasons. The boys have grown up and moved out, the lack of time or energy while working full-time, and the fact that I came to realize in my late 30’s that I have an intolerance to wheat. That is the biggest single reason I stopped baking. I don’t even have all-purpose flour in the house now.

If I eat wheat, I have an asthma attack. If I don’t eat wheat, I don’t have an asthma attack. I decided that I like breathing more than I like wheat. Not a difficult choice but a difficult transition. At the time, there were not many alternatives, like there are these days.

I hope some of you give this recipe a try. Let me know how it goes. Do you like them as much as I used to?