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Brown Sugar Roasted Strawberry & Coconut Popsicles

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Hold onto your sticks everyone, because it’s Popsicle Week!

This is one of my favorite weeks of the (virtual) year, actually, because in addition to getting to make slash eat delicious, frozen treats, we also get to mix and mingle with a huge community of bloggers with popsicles on the brain.  I mean, have you seen this list of genius?!?  So much goodness over there.  We’re going to need more popsicle molds.IMG_5332

 

In previous years I’ve tried to mix it up, tackling everything from Date Shake Pops to Dark Chocolate Pudding Pops to Honeydew Agua Fresca Pops (not to mention the Watermelon Limesicles and Blackberry Root Beer Float popsicles that have shown up around these parts), but this year I wasn’t sure exactly where to go.  Creamy or fruity?  Chocolatey or chock full of coconut?

The answer, dear friends, is all of the above.

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I settled on a creamy, coconut-milk-based, syrupy-roasted-strawberry and handful-of-white-chocolate-chips-for-good-measure-filled popsicle.  They are PRETTY GOOD, if I do say so myself.  They’re just subtly sweet, but packed with intensely strawberry-ish strawberries, creamy coconut flavor and a hint of brown sugar and white chocolate.  Get into it!

I think they’d be Calder-approved, too, if he could, you know, eat things.  He mostly stared at them in confusion, if we’re being honest, but I think I detected a glimmer of pop-citement in those baby blues.  Gotta teach them young, right?

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Happy #PopsicleWeek, everyone!

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Sour Cream Bran Muffins

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HELLO!  Well, wow.  It’s been awhile.  It seems I had a kid (!) and everything else (cooking, writing, showering…) fell by the wayside.  I’m officially one of those people. Yikes.

But!  Lest you think all you’re going to find here is a terrible iPhone picture of a pretty delicious muffin, I’d like to introduce you to someone:

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OH hi there!  This is Calder.  He’s my son and I’m keeping him forever.  Incidentally, he’s also a pretty delicious muffin.

I’m still trying to figure out exactly how much of the little guy I want to put out there on the internet, but let’s start here.  Calder likes: fresh air, hiccups, the sound of the vacuum cleaner, midnight snacks, bouncing.  Dislikes: long car rides, crib naps, wearing socks.

Though I’ve not spent much time in the kitchen, the past three months (three months already! bah.) with this little man have been the most delicious ever – so thanks for bearing with my absence around here.

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Before Calder was born, I loaded up my freezer with a few simple meals and snacks (including this soup and these meatballs) that I knew I’d want around post baby, and these muffins proved an excellent call.  Parading under the guise of good health (I mean, bran muffins), these are light and tender crumbed cakes packed to the gills with sweet fruit and rich molasses flavor.

In the early days when the babe needed to eat every five seconds (or so it seemed), leaving me ravenous at all hours, my nighttime routine included pulling two (or, uh, three) of these muffins from the freezer and setting them by my bedside — they’d thaw just in time for that first, late night nursing session, and I’d descend hungrily on the things after my sweet boy had gotten his fill (of milk, not muffins… little guy didn’t know what he was missing).

I’ve made a few batches since the first to restock the coffers, as it were, and served them, warm from the oven and slathered with butter, to last-minute brunch guests (instead of shoveling them in my mouth at 2am, say), but these muffins will always remind me of those first few amazing, exhausting, terrifying and exhilarating weeks with Calder.

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