[m i a o w] the cat

The lovely Ellise (who came and stayed with us for two weeks when we had no shower, no inside tap, no mudcrabs and a bucket flushing toilet) is the best person I know at making up awesome food from all the weird crap you have in your cupboard. When she came and stayed she cooked things that had never even crossed my mind. I am very bad at kitchen improvisation. But last night, in post-mudcrab desperation, the tide turned. I invented some banana muffins!! I had to invent them as none of my ingredients matched those in the recipes I frantically googled. For anyone that wants to copy my exciting, revelatory, recipe, here it is:

Miaow! Banana, Passionfruit and Museli Muffins
1/2 cup of untoasted muesli (Lowans Apricot & Almond does it for me)
2 cups of wholemeal s/r flour (that’s what it said in another recipe I read)
1/2 cup of raw brown sugar
1 tbspn of Ellises old bag of nutmeg
3 mashed ripe bananas
3/4 cup (or whatever you have left) of the natural yogurt that M wanted to throw out a week ago but didn’t actually expire until tomorrow - the value of hiding things in the back of the fridge can never be underestimated
Pulp of 3 passionfruit
A handful of sultanas (I can’t believe I had these in the cupboard - they were supposed to be porridge enhancers)

Mix up all the dry stuff. Chuck all the undry stuff on top. Mix it all together. It begins not to look scary after a short while. Use it all to fill the six holes of your muffin tin (the one I forgot to tell you to grease), and then stick it in the oven (the one I forgot to tell you to preheat at about 180 degrees celcius). It should take about half an hour or a little bit more. Yum. Well, the top halves of mine were yum, the bottom halves were black and inedible as I’d put the tray on the lowest shelf of the toaster oven - the one that is about two centimetres away from the heatsource. Put yours in the middle or top of your toaster oven. Voila.