I am known to be something of a workaholic. Driven by the desire to be good at what I do and to improve on that, I am a firm believer in the practice makes perfect adage. As much as I enjoy work I must admit that it does get exhaustive at times.
Being on call often keeps me from having breakfast the usual way. The hospital breakfast menu, while being varied and decent-tasting, never includes a baked item :(. I try to make up for that by baking on the eve as I get my stuff ready for the forthcoming call.
I really need to have something to bite into before the morning ward round. I can expect to get dragged into the opration theatre at any time of the day [or night] and it would do no good to anyone to work in a state of hypoglycaemia.
For my last call, I chose to ‘personalise’ the recipe for Energy Muffins from Taste – Everyday Easy Recipes. This will yield 20 regualr sized incredibly moist and flavourful muffins that should keep your stomach from rumbling while you focus on keeping your hand steady over a 7-0 suture in vascular microsurgery.
APPLE & CARROT MUFFINS
Ingredients:
1/2 cups caster sugar
2 cups self raising flour
1 cup almond meal
2 tsp Alpen Cereal
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 cup raisins, soaked
3 medium carrots, grated
2 large fuji apples, grated
3 eggs, room temperature
3/4 cup vegetable oil
2 tbs maple syrup
1 tsp vanilla extract
- Preheat oven to 180°C. Line muffin pans with paper cases.
- In a large bowl, sift flour. Stir in sugar, Alpen, almond meal and baking powder until well combined.
- Add grated carrots, apples and raisins to flour mixture.
- In a separate bowl, beat eggs, oil, maple syrup and vanilla.
- Add the wet mixture to the dry ingredients.
- Fold until just combined but do not overmix.
- Spoon into muffin pans and bake for 25 minutes.
- Serve dusted with icing sugar or cream cheese frosting.
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July 19, 2010 at 2:22 am
yashvin
Hi!
One question, if I may…
The pics above, are they from the net or you shot them after you baked those great-looking muffins? 😛
btw, I would love to taste some of your recipes haha! Next meeting then!
And yeah, practice makes perfect, but do keep a balanced work-life…
July 20, 2010 at 2:11 pm
prerrnamirchi
Hi Yashvin! I shot these in the doctor’s mess last friday before they got eaten by my colleagues. I think they were more of the great-tasting type rather that great-looking. Hope I get to bake for the next bloggers’ event 🙂