When we moved to Walnut Creek, California, a good friend and neighbor brought over a loaf of pumpkin bread one fall. It was delicious, but I tend to tweak recipes. From that recipe, I created the now famous Pumpkin Muffins with chocolate chips. In the early days, we would grow our own pumpkins. I would bake the pumpkin and use that to make my muffins. Now a day, I use a can of pumpkin from Krogers. But, anyway you bake them, autumn just isn’t same without a batch of pumpkin muffins.As you view the above baking photo, see if you can tell what three ingredients are not in the picture. The first person to comment and tell us what the three missing ingredients are will receive a year’s supply of one and “some” of the others.
Also, enjoy a walk down memory lane of “pumpkin-themed" pictures:
This batch made 71 muffins
Troy and Lisa - 1971
Joel, Troy, Lisa, & Julie - 1975
Joel, Lisa, Brad, Julie, Troy - 1978
Troy's UFO Pumpkin - 1979
Brad, Julie, Lisa, Joel, Troy, & Lori - 1980
Carving pumpkins in our Walnut Creek Home - 1981
Joel, Lori, and Brad - 1987- S. Monticello Home
Brad and Lori - 1989
Lori grooving - 1992
Beloved Pumpkin Muffin (Brad and Mom) - 2004
Andrew - 2008
And so the next generation gathers pumpkins in hopes his parents will make up Grammy's Pumpkin Muffins !
10 comments:
Eggs, salt, chocolate chips. We cook these every fall (sometimes more than once) and it's our favorite fall tradition! this year we mixed it with a drive thru the alpine loop to look at fall mountain colors. Thanks mom for your excellent tweaking so many years ago!
Hmm.. Eggs, water, salt and choc chips make 4. Don't bother sending a year's worth of water...
great pix! too bad lori never got to use the clown costume :-(
Very cute pictures. If I could bake, I would ask for the recipe!
salt, eggs and chocolate chips. I was just thinking of making some next week!
Troy's right, 4 missing ingredients! I just made these Monday with the plan of handing them out to neighbors, but came down with such crummy sickness that afternoon that I decided no one would want them (more for me!). I'm very curious exactly what your tweaks were...how about posting the before and after recipes?
what's the 4th missing ingredient? Troy said something about water but i've never used that.. Am i missing out?
i applaud the military precision with which you marshalled those muffins into columns for inspection and photography.
Julie may know the ingredients...I don't. But I had to ask...was Troy dressed as the Devil every year from 75-80? I guess if you got a killer costume, there is no reason to change!
Allen
Brad -- 1.5 cups of water
joel--and there's one muffin inspecting the troops at the front!
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