December 11

I started the morning with my husband, a cup of tea, banana bran chocolate chip muffins and CBS Sunday Morning...ahhhh.

Banana Bran Chocolate Chip Muffins

1 banana, over ripe and squishy
1/2 cup applesauce
1/4 cup oil
1 egg
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 1/4 cups flour
1 cup bran
1/3 cup sugar
1 Tbs. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
handful of semi-sweet chocolate chips

Using a fork, squish up the banana until almost pulverized. Then combine the rest of the wet ingredients in a large mixing bowl with the banana and stir them up a bit. Put all of the dry ingredients into another bowl, stir to mix them and then add them to the wet ingredients. Stir the entire mixture just until all ingredients are moist--over mixing muffin batter will make it tough. Stir in a handful of chocolate chips. Drop batter into a greased muffin tin and bake for 15 to 18 min. Serve with butter and do not feel guilty about it, these tasty muffins use a fraction of the oil of a regular muffin.