The past and the present collide….

As you know I’m making some dietary changes and this morning when everyone was off and gone to their respective places, I decided to make some healthy muffins. Got out the Prevention cookbook that has some lovely recipes in it and got started.

When I very first started learning to cook from my mom, this was my favorite bowl to use. I love it and have made many wonderful dishes in it over the years….my first oatmeal cookies, meatloaf, baked beans, cakes of all kinds…it was just my go-to favorite.

Recently, I was looking around on ebay and found this lovely smaller version…so I bought it. Mom tells me she used to have one larger, but it got broken somewhere along the way.

So I decided to make new, fond memories of healthy recipes in my favorite bowls.

 

 

  Now this recipe (unlike any recipe ever done in this bowl before) only had two tablespoons of oil, only used one egg white, and only had two tablespoons of honey to sweeten it. I think the bowl was about to revolt and head for the hills. Remember this bowl had made rich, luscious two-stick-butter oatmeal cookies with both white and brown sugar….excuse me while I wipe the drool….but all good things must come to an end. I had to take the upper hand and convince the bowl these things were good for us and that maybe sometimes I’d loan it out to somebody who still could make those wonderful things. Things settled down when I zested the orange and added orange juice…what a lovely aroma…so fresh…so healthy.

They look very close to the picture in the book, but I have to admit I was afraid to try them…I made mom the guinea pig. Seriously…isn’t that sad?

She asked that I heat it and add “a little” butter. She said they were good…different, but good. After all, butter can do a lot to improve anything.

So my old world and my new world are going to collide in places I never imagined. I don’t even want to think about what will happen when I pull out the food processor….