Raspberry Cream Muffins (Emlyn)

1 C raspberries (fresh or frozen)

1 C flour

1/2 C sugar

1 tsp baking powder

1 C sour cream

1/4 C canola oil

1 large egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spray or line a 12 cup muffin pan. Set washed raspberries aside. In a medium bowl, stir together flour, sugar and baking powder. In a small bowl, beat together sour cream, oil, vanilla and egg. Pour wet mixture over dry ingredients, stirring to combine with a wooden spoon. Note: dough will be very stiff. Put a little dough in the bottom of each of the muffin cups, then add the rasperries evenly divided, and the remainder of the dough evenly divided on top. Bake for 12-14 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Place pan on a wire rack to cool for 5 minutes. Remove muffins from pan and continue cooling on wire rack.

Homemade Granola (Emlyn)

GRANOLA

Preheat oven to 250 degrees
Prepare two large sheet pans (coat with cooking spray)
Ingredients:8 cups of rolled oats (stay away from the quick oats)
2 cups of barley (time to raid the food storage)
2 cups of wheat germ
1 cup of slivered almonds
1 cup of chopped pecans
1 1/2 cups of dried cranberries
1 cup of flax seed
2 cups of honey
2 cups of olive oil
3-4 teaspoons of cinnamon

Heat the honey for about 15-30 seconds and then mix together with oil. Add honey and oil mixture to large mixing bowl. Add all the other ingredients (minus cranberries and flax seed)Stir well until everything is coated well with honey and oil. Transfer to baking sheets and bake for 60-90 minutes (or until crunchy) stirring occasionally. Add the flax seed the last 30 minutes of baking.
Cool and add dried cranberries.
This is my variation and you can really choose your dried fruit and nut/grain combination. The whole family loved this and it is mighty pretty.

Buttermilk Sryup (Kenni)

1 Cube butter
1/2 Cup Buttermilk
1 Cup of sugar
1/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla

Heat up but do not boil, it is done when it is foamy

I love this sryup better than maple
I hope you like it too.

German Pancakes (Emlyn)

4 large eggs
3/4 cup flour
3/4 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla, optional
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon butter, melted

Bake at 350 until puffy. Makes 6 servings.