Fantastic Food

We went to my in-law's home a year ago or so (no I don't hate them, they just live a 10 hour drive from me!) and my MIL made sausage pot pie.  I'd only ever had chicken pot pie, which, most of the time, I thought was just "okay".  The sausage pot pie was yummy.  My kids thought it was a gift sent from God from His own table.  My son loved it so much he requested it for his birthday dinner (a good 10 months from then).  And then every month he would bring it up again that he still wanted that for his birthday.  Well the pie was  really good, so I asked my MIL for the recipe.  I'll give you the bad news first:  It had canned EVERYTHING, the worst being a can of mushroom soup.  And store-bought pie crusts. First of all, store-bought crust tastes like cardboard.  It just does, so no thank you.  Also, I sorta have a thing against cooking with canned soups.  I'm not 100% sure why, but I think it is a "must cook from scratch" code/obsession that I

I really like muffins, but I rarely feel like making them when I get up in the morning.  Every time I do end up making them, though, I always decide I am going to make them every week because they're so good!  Obviously I am a lazy person (isn't it obvious?!), so that inevitably falls through by the time "next week" comes around...  But I'm here today because I, of course, again loved the muffins I got up and made after not making muffins for several months.  Truth:  I only made them this time because of the riiiipe bananas rotting on my counter and no other ideas on what to make that day.  You should make them though--every week :). I'm going to.  Maybe... Craisin Pecan Banana Muffins with Whole Wheat Ingredients: 1 1/3 cups whole wheat flour 2/3 cup white flour 1/2 cup rolled oats 2 tsp. cinnamon  1 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. coarse salt (or a little less than 1/2 tsp of table salt) 3 mashed bananas (about 1 1/4 cup