Everything's Just Peachy

Oh Dear.  I was a roll there for a hot minute!  When I posted that picture of Joe's beautiful birthday cake the number of hits the blog received went sky high!!  But I left again.  So is life, ya know? Sometimes things are hot... other times, not so much.  The strangest thing about it all is that since I stopped blogging, I really started cooking!  Now that I have so many people around to eat my food every day (including Joe), I cook regular meals like the rest of the world.  Every single day, I've been cooking!  I just didn't blog about it because I didn't think you all would find jarred indian curry sauces and frozen naan interesting.  Tasty! But not interesting.  Oh well, shoulda coulda woulda...  I've got muffins today!!

Wouldn't you know it that it was my home state's fruit which got me inspired again to begin blogging.   Only this Georgia girl's peaches are from Virginia.  I would know,  I picked 'em myself in the 100 degree heat last weekend.   I didn't know that Virginia Peaches existed... which makes me wonder, does that make me a Virginia Peach?  Hmm... something to ponder, I suppose.  Anyways, every single dang peach in these muffins were hand picked by yours truly.  Hand picked, hand cut, hand made.  Doesn't get much better than that.  And judging from the feedback I've received today, it was worth it.

Peach Muffins

2 C Whole Wheat Flour
1 C All Purpose Flour
1 Tbsp Ground Cinnamon
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Salt
3/4 C Unsweetened Applesauce
1/2 C Vegetable oil
3 Eggs, lightly beaten
1 C White Sugar
1 C Light Brown Sugar
2 1/2 C Peeled, Pitted, and Chopped Peaches

Crumb Topping
1 Tbsp Cold Butter
2 Tbsp Flour
1/3 C Light Brown Sugar

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Prepare baking pans with paper liners.
2. In a large bowl, mix flours, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt.
3. In a separate bowl, mix together applesauce, oil, and sugars.
4. Stir the flour mixture into the wet mixture until just combined.  Lightly fold in the peaches and spoon into baking pans.
5. Combine crumb topping ingredients if desired using a fork until butter is roughly mixed into the sugar and flour (similar to corn meal).  Sprinkle over muffins.
6. Bake for 25 minutes.  Cool completely before serving.