I’m really into eating today. How does that time of the month change a woman’s eating habits? It really makes no sense. I think it’s the placebo effect. We just think that we want more food during that time of the month because that’s what we have been told all of our lives. Period = chocolate. Chocolate = bloating. Bloating = Omg, periods are the worst. When really, it’s just the 18 pounds of M&M’s we consumed that are actually the worst. Maybe I’m making all of this up. I don’t think that can really be considered a placebo effect. Damnit. Are you as lost as I am? Moving on.
I just put brownies in the oven. What a beautiful day.
So this weekend was pretty damn uneventful. I did get a bit too drunk one night and found myself awake at 6:15am with a stomach ache that could kill a small child. Thankfully, I had some leftover pumpkin cream donuts in the fridge along with leftover sweet potatoes. So this is what I did. I put 2 strips of bacon in a pan, then added the sweet potatoes, then eggs on top and fried the eggs. All while eating the stuffed donuts. Alcohol makes you crave carbs. I don’t know if that’s a fact, but I’m going to say it is since it’s sugar. Sugar makes you crave more sugar. Which I craved all weekend. Alcohol AND that time of the month, oh hells no. Kill me now. It’s like the atomic bomb of sweet cravings in one weekend. That was a poor analogy. Back to the point. After stuffing my face with food and watching Spongebob Squarepants while shivering in our 60 degree house, I went back to bed until 9am. Then you know what I did? I went to the gym. And had a pretty great workout. All it did was offset all the food I ate, but whatevs. Have you ever done the ‘Bring Sally Up‘ workout thingy? I can’t squat nowadays, so I did it with a press. It was delightfully miserable.
I’m not really sure how many movies I watched this weekend, but too many. I have no idea how people spend their weekends inside, on the couch. My back actually hurts from sitting too much. But there are movies out there to be seen, and sometimes you just have waste your money and body to be hip with the times. I finally watched the entire movie The Great Gatsby. I don’t know if I ever actually read that book in high school. Guessing no because I used to only read the clif notes to everything when I was in high school. I was a rebel. And hated following the rules. And listening. And doing what I was told. Anywho, I wasn’t impressed with the movie. It was a bit of a downer. I understand movies not having super happy endings, but I’d like to be warned ahead of time. I like paying for movies that are going to give me an ending worth watching. That make me think all relationships turn out perfect. And give me a skewed perception of happiness. Now that’s my kind of movie.
Does it make anyone else uncomfortable when people talk about their divorce via Facebook status? Hand raised over here.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
- Yield: 5 1x
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
- 3 eggs, whisked
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup coconut flour
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/8 teaspoon powdered ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 1/2 cup Enjoy Life Mini Chocolate Chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix together wet ingredients in a bowl: pumpkin puree, maple syrup, coconut oil, eggs, and vanilla extract.
- In another bowl, whisk together coconut flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves, powdered ginger, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- Pour dry ingredients into wet ingredients and mix well.
- Fold in chocolate chips.
- Use an ice cream scoop to scoop batter into silicone muffin liners.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes
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I’ve been looking for a grain-free pumpkin muffin and this looks great! Can’t wait to give it a try.
Doing the Whole30 during that time of month is excruciating! Without chocolate I seriously thought I was going to punch someone in the face!
Would I need to adjust the ingredients at all if I wanted to make this as a loaf instead? Can’t wait to try!
i don’t think so but it would probably have to bake for a while longer
Oh my gosh I am trying this tonight! I’m brand new to the Paleo world (as in, yesterday was my first day of transition) so this will be wonderful to start out with! Question, do you think flaxseed meal would be a good substitute for eggs? My son is allergic and if I’m making these I want him to have some too 🙂
no clue. i’m sorry!
Looks so scrummy i need to try this, but how do you make Pumpkin Purée? I don’t think we can buy it over in England or I’m yet to find somewhere!!!
you can find it in a can in the baking isle usually.
You won’t find canned pumpkin on this side of the Atlantic. To make purée, buy a smallish pumpkin, chop off the top, cut it in 1/4’s. Scoop out seeds. Place on a baking tray. Bake it at 375F until you can easily pierce it with a fork (45mins to an hour). Remove from oven, let cool, peel off skin, run meat through a food processor until puréed. Some pumpkins will need a bit of water added during the purée, some won’t. Extra can be canned and stored for later use or ziploc’d and stored in the freezer.
I’m sorry you have to go to so much work!! Wow, we are spoiled…open a can and dump…lol I’m sure the taste is very fresh tho!
Yeah, it’s a pain. I use butternut and hokkaido, and roast them when I have beets or sweet potatoes or whole heads of garlic – something that needs a good long unsupervised roast anyway. Fortunately squash keeps well in a cool pantry, otherwise you’ve got to sacrifice large portions of the freezer (European freezers can hold one block of American ice cream) which would otherwise go to venison, duck and goose before the holiday price jump, for the puree. I find that I have to squeeze the bejeebers out of the pureed flesh or it’s too wet and tastes of nothing and messes up the recipe.
A crockpot is a great way to cook a pumpkin unsupervised.
I live in Scotland, so I’m not sure how huge of a difference that makes, but I can find canned pumpkin easily. I get mine from realfoods, but I’ve seen it in little niche shops (think hole-in-the-wall stores) and even at Waitrose during this time of year. If you still have no luck, Realfoods delivers everywhere in the UK. 🙂
They’re in the oven!
I don’t have all of the spices such as cloves & powdered ginger. However I do have pumpkin pie spice which has several of those spices in them. Would I be able to sub that for the nutmeg, cloves, & ginger? If so about how much? I love all your recipes!!!! You’re my favorite blog by far!
yep!!
Oh NOW you post these, I just made pumpkin chocolate chip muffins last week and they turned out disastrous. Could I use raw honey instead of the syrup?
yep
OK they turned out awesome! Next time I’m gonna throw a banana in there and see what happens!