This month’s recipe brought back memories for me in such a strange way! (Since we will be out of town for Labor Day Weekend, I had to choose the shorter of the two recipes…which was the blueberry muffins. I will do the Sweet Berry Fougasse and post with the next blog.)
Anyway, the muffins seemed straight forward enough, nothing too out of the ordinary until I read you need to double sift the dry ingredients. I don’t recall any recipes I have made asking for a double sift. As I was patiently sifting in “my little hand held, sorry excuse for a sifter” I was transported back many, many years ago baking with my Grandma…Great Grandma Rose as my children called her. We use to bake all the time, at least it seems like that in my memory…like every time I went to her house. Chocolate chip cookies and Sugar cookies were the “go to” recipes. She taught me all sorts of baking and cooking tricks and procedures….how to level off measuring cups, how to use a garlic press, and my favorite how to taste the cookie batter!! 🙂
One of my favorite parts of mixing the dough was sifting, which I think was in large part because of the handy sifting contraption she had. 
Oh, I just had to chuckle while I was sifting away for these muffins at the flood of memories. She would have LOVED to hear about my baking adventures with this group. It is times like this I miss her most but it is also great to see how her memory lives on. She was brought up at the dinner table that night!
A day swimming at Great Grandmas! 1999
My brother’s wedding. 2003
Well that turned out to be quite a trip down memory lane haha! Good thing I had something to talk about because these muffins just didn’t do it for us. Not bad, but not good either. With all the prep and double sifting and all I would have expected them to taste as good if not better than muffins made from a box, but that was just not the case. I expected them to be light and moist and they weren’t. I am all for a good muffin, but these weren’t worth the calories in my opinion. Not a keeper here. Looking forward to trying out the fougasse…stayed tuned. 🙂
Is this a keeper? 
Yeah, there were a lot of dirty dishes involved with this recipe! I thought they were tasty, but not sure if they’re any better than other recipes I’ve tried.
Sweet pictures! (And can you keep a secret? I did not sift my ingredients. Bwah haha!) So rebellious, I am. 😉
Great post and pics. It is amazing how and when memories come back to ones mind. 🙂
Such a lovely post! Sorry they were not a hit for you. I actually enjoyed this recipe – not too many in this book that I do.
I thought they were ok, but definitely not worth all the work! There are bound to be some better blueberry muffins out there.
Glad to hear this recipe brought back such good memories, even if they weren’t your favourite muffins. Hopefully you will like the sweet fougasse!
Sorry you didn’t like the recipe. I thought the texture was good – really light – but that the flavour could have used a little extra oomph.
I am also looking to try the sweet fougasse.