Pumpkin Spice Muffins

Pumpkin Spice Muffins

As I sit here procrastinating another night of homework, I thought it would be my duty to show you the tasty muffins that yesterday's procrastination of Pumpkin Pie Spice DIY, was able to produce. I loved how simple this recipe was and how delicious they turned out. Even Derek who fears the fall because of my need to bake everything pumpkin, said that the muffins were good, so that means something, right? These muffins look like Plain Jane's but they are very flavorful!



Ingredients: 
3 cups flour
2 tbsp + 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice (make your own here)
2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
3 cups sugar
1 14oz can pumpkin
4 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup orange juice or water (I did water, orange juice would probably be divine)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350°. Mix together in a large bowl, flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, and salt. In the bowl of your mixer, beat together sugar, pumpkin, eggs, oil, and water until well mixed. Then pour the flour mixture into the wet mixture and mix until just combined, don't over mix. Bake for 25-30 minutes.
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DIY: Pumpkin Pie Spice

DIY: Pumpkin Pie Spice

Clearly there is a direct proportion to the amount of homework that I have to do, and the amount of blog posts being written. As homework level increases, procrastination increases, and blogging happens in full force. This afternoon I wanted to make some pumpkin muffins (another attempt at procrastination), but I realized that I didn't have any pumpkin pie spice. I don't know about you, but it urks me to no end when I can't make something because I don't have a spice, and then I have to go to the store and pay $4+ for a .85g container of said spice. So I looked up how to make pumpkin pie spice and was relieved to know I had all the fixings for it!

On an unrelated note. That massive thing of cinnamon shown above was a wedding gift. 1 pound of cinnamon to be exact, and we've used over half of it in two years. That's a lot of cinnamon. We need to lay off the weekly french toast night I think.

Ingredients: 
4 tbsp cinnamon
4 tsp nutmeg
4 tsp ginger
3 tsp all spice

Directions:
Whisk together until well mixed and store in an airtight container. Yields about 8 tbsp worth of pumpkin pie spice. 
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Homemade BBQ Sauce

Homemade BBQ Sauce

Yesterday was one of those nights where I didn't have a clue what was for dinner until around 5pm. I decided that barbecue chicken pizza would be a great choice, and then found myself without enough BBQ sauce. This problem was solved easily when I found this recipe online after a quick google search and saw that I had all the ingredients ready to go!

However, I'm having a bit of a moral dilemma. The recipe calls for red wine vinegar, and I had some in my cabinet, (although I did not buy it and don't know where it came from), and it's followed us from Provo, UT, all the way to Cary, NC, and the recipe called for it, so I put it in there. But, are Mormons allowed to use red wine vinegar? Did I just lead my family to eternal destruction? I guess Derek and Jay didn't know it was in there, but I did, so I think they're in the clear. Does anyone else cook with red wine vinegar? Or am I just a little rebellious?

Well, if you're feeling rebellious too, here is the recipe for this wonderful BBQ sauce. It was delicious, and quite possibly the best I ever had. Sweet Baby Ray's is a thing in the past for me. Unless of course, using red wine vinegar is a sin, then of course I'll never make this again and pretend it never happened.
homemade BBQ sauce

Recipe adapted slightly from Simply Scratch
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups dark brown sugar
1 1/4 cup ketchup
1/2 cup red wine vinegar
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
2 1/2 tsp ground mustard
2 tsp paprika
3/4 tsp salt
 1 tsp black pepper

Directions:
Mix all ingredients together in a bowl until sugar is dissolved. Then pour into a jar and store in the fridge for up to 1 week.
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COUPONING!

COUPONING!



So many of you have asked (and yes I literally mean more than one person...), and so I finally did a video on how I score all my awesome couponing deals to show you how it's done! If you have any more questions feel free to message me, email me (paigeflamm@gmail.com), or leave a question in the comment section and I'll try to answer it for you.




LINKS:
Southern Savers (for southern state couponers Harris Teeter, Kroger, Food Lion, Walmart, Target)
The Stock Up Price List
Macey's Provo Shoppers
Smith's Utah Shoppers
Price Chopper NY Shoppers (Looks like Price Chopper lets you make money off deals, and they look like they have lots of good deals, consider me real jealous of all of you)
Hannaford NY Shoppers

If you don't see your store you can probably google for example, "price chopper NY coupon matchups" obviously put in your store and state, and then a few blog should show up for you that do all the dirty work for you!

Also not stated in the video, printable coupons can print twice per computer. So click the link, print it once, and then close the window where the coupon came from, and then click the same link again and print the coupon again. We have three laptops at our house which means I get 6 of every printable coupon. Don't judge, that probably just made me sound like a crazy person.

Also, office supply stores also have great coupon deals! We score free packs of printer paper all the time using in store rebates and everything so definitely check those out too!

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