Treat yourself to some delicious and easy to bake Blueberry and Polenta muffins this weekend. You will be so pleased you did. Blueberries are the perfect fruit to add to a muffin batter because of their colour, flavour and size, and even though blueberries aren't grown around here in North Queensland, except for a few native bushes that people might grow, I used frozen ones, and they worked perfectly.
Hello, I'm Pauline, a passionate home cook with over 40 years of recipe development experience and over 12 years of food blogging. I live in Tropical North Queensland. What began as a simple way to document family recipes has grown into Happy Retiree's Kitchen, a trustworthy source for achievable, delicious recipes. I'm a self-taught cook and food and travel blogger, and have spent over a decade perfecting how to make home cooking achievable, flavoursome, and very accessible. Let's cook.
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Slow-cooked Italian Lamb Shanks
Italian lamb shanks are one of my favourite meals, and is often what I order when we are dining out. This recipe had a lot to live up to, however it is as delicious, even more so, than any Italian Lamb Shank meal I have ever eaten. It's made from scratch, without the use of any packets of supermarket branded products, such as a packet of red wine jus. There's just no need.
Monday, September 19, 2016
Blueberry and Polenta Muffins and life in the slow lane that they call retirement
As I sit here typing on my computer, it is occurring to me how many other things I have on the go at the same time, and that my brain is processing in the background. Whilst I suppose that my main focus is typing up this recipe and thinking about how delicious these muffins are and when I can justify having another one, I am thinking about the sour dough bread I need to start preparing which I always try to bake on Mondays.


