Whole wheat vanilla protein muffin

Whole Wheat Vanilla Protein Muffin

What you need:

4 egg whites

1 cup unsweetened almond milk ( or milk of your choice)

2 tbsp olive oil

2 cups of whole wheat flour

1/2 cup vanilla protein powder

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

How to put it together:

Heat oven to 325. In a large bowl beat 4 egg whites with  electric mixer until really nice and foamy. Add in 1 cup of almond milk and 2 tbsp oil. In another bowl sift flour, baking powder and baking soda. Then add that to your egg/milk mixture. Put in your protein powder and mix. Spay muffin pan with olive oil cooking spray and pour in your batter. Cook 18 minutes or until done.

I topped mine with strawberry fig jam that I got from my local farmers market and a tbsp or 2 of glaze. 

Glaze:

 1/2 cup powdered suger

1 tbsp butter

1 tbsp (maybe 2) of unsweetened almond milk

Melt butter and mix with powdered sugar and milk. Spoon over your muffin. 

Instead of glaze you can do greek yogurt, almond butter, pure maple syrup or whatever else you feel like.  The only reason I made a glaze was the were supposed to be donuts. I didn't have a donut pan though so I used a muffin one and they turned out to be delicious muffins!! But I promised my kids donuts so I had to give them a glaze.    Enjoy!!!

  

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We have snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well its actually more like ice but still exciting for all of us! Later on this morning I will get the kids all bundled up and maybe they can go sliding around. The dogs are not excited about it though. Buggy and Tinkerbell refused to go outside and then buggy ran off up to my room and peed on the floor! So thats not really fun for me. You know what is really neat though, it snowed the morning Lindy was born and I know this is the day before her birthday.....(but if we were on German time we would be closer)....its still pretty neat.

TONIGHT WE FEAST LIKE GERMANS!

Oh Germany how I miss you. Chocolate filled crepes, schnitzel at every corner. Sadly, I really did not care for the taste of German food other than the fried meat on stick and the sweets while I lived there. I ate at all the yummy Italian, Greek, and Asian places but I probably only ate a German restaurant maybe a handful of times. I was young I didn't know any better. Over the years I have come to love the taste of good bratwurst soaked in beer, grilled to perfection, then placed in a crusty roll, slathered with mustard, covered with sauteed onions and sauerkraut and then consumed at a rapid pace by myself. Had I known that their food could be so good I would of never came back. Well, actually I don't really get to choose where I live but I would of eaten more of it to make up for the lack of bratwurst now. Oh well I'll just eat a lot more tonight....even Steven.

New years resolutions

So this year I am sticking with tradition and going with losing the baby weight. I am not however going to do any sort of diet, but I have decided to give up fast food and soda. Which means that I will be cooking for my family every night...with the exception of a nice dinner out every once in a while. I will also start exercising. Last night I attempted to do some sit ups as my mortified husband looked on and well I did get one good one. For some reason he was not impressed. Well we shall see what 2010 has in store for me. P.S. Pot roast was delicious!

Not your Nanny's pot roast.

Nothing against my Nanny's pot roast, because hers is pretty delectable. Tonight I am opting for my own mothers recipe....shocking. My mother makes a good lasagna but that is about it..until now. While at home on the Christmas holdiay my mother said she would be making a roast which is not unusual. Growing up in my house you would eat maybe a total of 8 things just rotated to different nights pot roast being one of them. This time however was different, I couldn't stop myself from picking at it. So tonight I will make my mothers pot roast. Nothing to it at all except bascially dump entirley to much season salt and pepper all over both sides and let it cook on low heat all day. I will pair it with some velvety mashed potatoes made with heavy cream, lots of unsalted creamy goodness (also called butter), and freshly grated parmesan cheese. It will be heaven in the form of potato. Alas there will also be carrots but who really cares about the carrots?