Aug 29 2009
Saturday Breakfast… with Knitting
I have been looking forward to this moment all week.
Knitting on Kris’s Olympic pullover while the smell of the peach muffins bake in the oven.
Peach and Pecan Muffins, adapted from The Vegan Table
- makes 16-24 muffins
- 3 cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 T ground cinnamon
- 1/4 t nutmeg
- 1 T baking soda
- 1 t salt
- 3/4 c chopped raw pecans
- 1/2 c canola oil
- 6 oz. non-dairy yogurt or non-dairy sour cream
- 1 t vanilla extract
- 2 T distilled white vinegar
- 1/2 c granulated sugar (I used sucanat)
- 1 c brown sugar
- 2 1/2 c peaches, pitted, skinned, and diced
- Extra pecans for sprinkling on top
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly grease muffin tin or fill with cupcake liners. In a large bowl, mix the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and baking soda. Add pecans and stir. In a separate bowl, mix oil, yogurt / sour cream, vanilla, vinegar, granulated sugar, 3/4 c brown sugar (save rest for later) and the peaches. Stir the peaches mixture into the flour mixture slowly until moist. Spoon the mixture into the baking tin and sprinkle the top of the muffins with the extra brown sugar and nuts. Bake for 25 minutes or until the an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes on wire rack and serve!
There are plans to can some of our garden veggies this weekend… but that may wait until tomorrow. I have every intention of working on this sweater and flipping through my library books and enjoying the stillness today.
Oh YUM!
Those muffins look incredible! Enjoy your Saturday!
First off – YUMMY!! Secondly, love the color of that yarn. It’s like the color of the deep deep ocean.
These sound yummy, wish I could pop over and share one, (while knitting with you too)
That looks sooo inviting….can I come over?! lol
Mmmm, muffins and knitting are a favourite way of mine to start a weekend too!
Oh what a lovely way to start off the weekend! I can almost smell them here. My afternoon/evening were in the kitchen canning – thankfully it was a much cooler day so the heat wasn’t overwhelming. Sending you a virtual jar of jam to go with your muffins.
Those muffins must be so good! Thanks for sharing your version of that recipe. I’ve just bought The Joy of Vegan Baking from the same author, and seeing what you said about The Vegan Table, I’m really tempted to get that one too, and soon!
The muffins, the knitting, the quiet, all perfect for Saturday morning!
Ooh, sounds delicious and relaxing
THanks for the recipe!
Mmmm, peach muffins! I might have to take a break from pie cooking to make these. And what a good bunch of books you found at your library. The library here in our little town only has about 12 books total — very slim pickings I’m afraid. I do miss having a good library near by. Oh well, there’s always Amazon
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Blessings,
G
It’s the simple pleasures that are the best!
A good library. That is one of the few things I really miss here in my tiny village.
In my recent member of the lactose intolerance club, I have to say that the idea of peach muffins sounds particularly thrilling. And I am so intrigued by this non-dairy sour cream idea.
Sounds like a perfect, relaxing start to the weekend – exactly what you needed, I’m sure. Thanks for sharing and I hope you enjoyed it. xoxo
Oh yummy! Now I want muffins, but I’m off to bake bunches of Amish Friendship Bread, sweet sourdough goodness! And knit, of course…
Thank you for the recipe Lolly. I am going to try that one this week!
Thank you! This morning I got up and made the muffins and they are yummy! I shared with my neighbors too. I wasn’t able to get the non dairy sour cream or yogurt here, or the pastry flour. I googled the pastry flour and was able to substitute 1/2 white flour and 1/2 wheat, next time I just need to add a little bit of liquid to make up for the difference in the flour.