Mini pancakes, small omelette, bacon, onion garnish.
Breakfast for lunch is a common bento right now – most mornings I make a mini omelette and put it in Madeleine’s bento. It’s also not uncommon to find one or more of the following: pancakes, bacon, muffins, cereal (Mini Wheats, Cheerios), strawberries (not in season right now), green grapes, mini bagel, nuts (walnuts) granola or homemade granola bars with peanut butter and chocolate chips.
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These savory muffins are inspired by Cheddar, pancetta, and spring onion muffins in the August 2010 Delicious magazine that I picked up when we were in the UK. The concept, combined with the magic of Michael Ruhlman’s book Ratio, has created this new MHC muffin.
I’ve been looking for new options for the lunchboxes / bentos for this coming year, and this may well be part of the rotation, especially because they can be frozen. I like make ahead foods; it makes preparing bentos that much easier.
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This Old Fashioned Banana Muffin recipe is one that has been in our family at least 3 generations and I while I could likely mix these from memory I frequently pull out the recipe -- mostly for the sake of nostalgia. Interestingly, the recipe as I have it written contains no mixing directions, oven temperature or cooking time. It's handwritten (more accurately, scribbled) in short abbreviation style on a crinkled pink envelope sent from a magazine I haven't read since college. There are scrawls and scratches on the right hand side that faintly show the ratio when one has 8 bananas. The envelope/recipe is splattered in 3 places and at the top of the paper is a 2 line Christmas list for my Dad.
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