...when a fork is able to pentrate the rock? This would make a great diet dish. 
For some reason, my beloved and I have frequently reverted back to Sunday breakfast rituals. When we first got married, a bachelor friend of his left him with a recipe for waffles, which he made for us for a while. We got a waffle iron and that was fun. The next few years, we found a little man-and-wife restaurant called "Hearts" and he loved their heart-shaped pancakes (I always went for the French Toast). Then one New Years Day, I made Banana-Blueberry Muffins for him, and that was "all she wrote". My man fell deeply and irrevocably in love with my muffins. Ever since then, I have made a batch of 12 jumbo's each week, and he heats a couple of them up in the microwave for himself each morning with his coffee.
As a sidebar, one summer, we had a little joke which I shared with friends and neighbors. If you did your math above, you can see that a batch does not quite last through the week, as he gets 12 each batch, and eats 2 each day. Sometimes during a week, I won't have time to do another batch, and he goes a day without. Inevitably, the next day that he had muffins, he would say, "MMMMMH!!! Did you do something different?? They taste especially good this morning." So, knowing that they only tasted extra good because he had gone without them an extra day, I teasingly made up a "secret ingredient" that I couldn't tell him about. He was dying to know the secret ingredient, and looked high and low for something in the pantry or refrigerator that he thought might be it. Eventually, I finally told him that the secret ingredient was only the waiting and anticipation. Heck, I get to enjoy some fun for being the baker!
He brags about these muffins, and how I make them for him, frequently and often to his friends and family. For me, that is the reward. I take a lot of pride in them now. Any "effort" preparing them each week, when I might be tired of being on my feet, is amply offset by the pleasure that I get, thinking of them as my unselfish gift of love to my sweetie. His enjoyment of them and the gratitude he expresses more than compensate:
SOOZ' MUFFINS OF LOVE
This recipe uses two JUMBO muffin pans, and makes 12 jumbo muffins.
A few days before, set aside two good and ripe bananas.
The morning of cooking, put out two sticks of margarine, to soften to room temperature.
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour --- 1-1/2 cups whole-wheat flour ----- 1-½ tsp salt ----- 1 tsp baking soda ----- 4 tsp baking powder ----- 2 sticks (1 cup) margarine ----- 2 very ripe, soft bananas ----- 1-½ good quality maple syrup ----- ½ cup egg substitute or 2 eggs ----- 1-½ cup soymilk ----- 1 tsp vanilla ----- 1-½ cups frozen blueberries
Preheat oven to 400°. Prepare muffin pans either with cooking spray or Jumbo muffin liners. In a large mixing bowl, combine all dry ingredients. Stir to blend. Add soymilk, egg, maple syrup, and vanilla. Stir with spoon. Add softened margarine and bananas to the bowl. Use a dinner knife to cut into chunks, then use mixer to blend entire mix. Do not make completely smooth; leave the consistency of chunky peanut butter. Add blueberries and stir with spoon only, to distribute evenly. Spoon batter into muffin pans. Bake 24-29 minutes. Let cool completely. Refrigerate to keep fresh.
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