Happy 4th of July!

Sometimes you have to think of food on the 4th!  A few blueberries, strawberries and whipping cream!  Then we topped it off with blueberry muffins, the Betty Crocker way.

Really easy recipe and I could have put an herb in them, but The Herbal Husband likes his traditional muffins!  He had four, but it is the 4th!

Muffins
1 egg
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 cups all-purpose or whole wheat flour
1/3 cup sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt

Heat oven to 400 degrees.  Grease bottoms of muffin tin only of about 12 medium muffin cups, 2-1/2 x 1-1/4 inches.  Beat egg; stir in milk and oil.  Stir in remaining ingredients all at once just until flour is moistened (batter will be lumpy).  Fill muffin cups about 3/4 full.  Bake unti gold brown, about 20 minutes.  Immediately remove from pan.  About 1 dozen muffins.

For blueberry muffins:  Stir in 1 cup fresh or 3/4 cup frozen blueberries (thawed and well drained) with the milk
For surprise muffins:  Fill muffin cups about half full.  Spoon 1 teaspoon strawberry jam (or jam/jelly of choice) onto batter in each cup; top with enough to fill cups about 3/4 full.

I gave you the standard muffin recipe and you can make it your own.  It is not overly sweet and the muffins are a normal size, not too large.  Hope you have a great 4th!  It is going to be a very hot one today!  I think they call it a firecracker!  Appropriate!  Talk to you later!