 Blueberry Muffins and a Rhubarb-jam Muffin  Look! These are the blueberries I harvested from my sunshine blue bush this summer. It’s a big progress from last year’s yield of three and a half berries, don’t you think? Since the end of last month, I had been picking a couple of ripe ones in every few days and storing them in the freezer. And finally today, I defrosted them all and baked these blueberry muffins.The strange-looking one in the back is a rhubarb-jam muffin. (I made the jam a while back but didn’t post about it. It is pretty tart.) I baked 3 of them because the blueberries were not enough for a half-batch of the recipe and I needed to use up the batter somehow.  Of course, I have had better-tasting blueberry muffins before with more berries in each. But I guess you readers understand how special these muffins are to me. Five years ago, baking muffins with home-grown blueberries was a mere dream for me. Then this lovely sunshine blue bush came into my life. It survived the heat and the disease last year, and finally today, I baked blueberry muffins with the berries from my balcony garden! What a fulfilling experience.  Now I’m going to freeze the muffins … after eating one more of them. ;) Then I’ll probably take a shower and enjoy the rest of the night watching “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” which I rented today. No work, no more study tonight (I took a test yesterday) and I can sleep in tomorrow morning.Yay! Categories: Sweets |
Sunday, August 27, 2006
A Dream Come True - Blueberry Muffins -
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sugoii desu!
I can understand your joy! I was also very pleased when making pesto using basils from my balcony garden!
Your blueberry muffins look so good. I wish I have muffin tins! Now that I've set my heart on buying them, I can't find them at all!!! :(
congratulations! these look great!
They look absolutely delicious. Congratulations! And I hope you did well on your test!
I'm so happy for you! The test is over and here you are baking muffins using your very own blueberries. Give yourself a pat on the back!
tabehodai
Arigato gozaimasu! :) You must have had a great time making the pesto.
Hope you find a good muffin tin soon.
k & s
Thank you.
amanda
Thanks. The only thing I regretted is that I forgot to taste one of the berries before baking them into the muffins.
And about the test… I sure don’t know. We’ll find out the result in a month. AHHHHHH!!!!
june
Yeah, I gave myself a reward and had a good time ;)
wow congratulations, looks like u did a great job on the muffins. also on the photos! just by looking at them i can almost taste them.
My mouth waters :D~~
Are blueberries supposed to be sweet or sour? Hmm... have you ever tried pineapple muffins?
I love your blog! I'm going to be a fan! ;)
sel
Oh it’s so nice of you to say that.
lysthea
Blueberries are sweet, maybe with a slight tartness sometime? Some of my blueberries tasted tart in the muffins, so I guess they were not completely ripe. It was kind of hard for me to tell ripe ones from not-very-ripe ones, because their colors looked the same.
Oh, those look very tasty. Right now, I'm eating apricot-and-blueberry muffins, from the local Starbucks ... pretty good, if you zap them in the microwave then slather with butter, but not as good as homemade.
I do enjoy your posts, and your lovely photographs.
God bless, Christine in Los Angeles
Ohmyga...those muffins look sooooooo good...
lysthea
I forgot to add this: no, I haven’t tried pineapple muffins yet. They sound good, though.
Christine in LA
Mmmm… I haven’t tried Starbucks muffins yet, though I did enjoy their coffee a couple of times when I lived in a bigger city. BTW, Starbucks Japan does not seem to have apricot & blueberry muffins, according to their website.
crystal
Thank you. I’m glad about the way they turned out.
Congratulations on the berries! I know that joy of blueberries, as I have found a local blueberry patch this year. Your muffins look beautiful!
Hi lannae,
Thanks. Happy to hear that you are enjoying blueberries over there, too.
Happy berries! :)
When I saw your lushious blueberry muffins, my first thought was that I wished I could mail to you some of my blueberries that I put up in the freezer, so you can make more beautiful bakery goods! Unfortunately, you are too far away. I look fwd to seeing your blueberry crop next year!
Oh lannae, I wish you could, too, but you’re right. I’m a bit too far.
I’m going to use some fertilizer this winter so that I can get more blueberries next year. Progress, progress… ;)
Awwwwwwwwww The muffins look so sweeet ^_________^
And i expect they will be more berryful next year =D
Thanks Miguel.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to making very berryful muffins next year (or pancakes, maybe?)
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