Lemon Blueberry Muffins
Run – don’t walk – to the nearest blueberry patch because you gotta make these muffins and nothing beats fresh blueberries! Man I LOVE blueberry season. My grandparents had a very small farm growing up, including a couple of blueberry bushes. I would always sneak into the netting and stuff myself full of as many blueberries as possible. What a healthy habit for a six year hold to have. A few years after that, my mom had a coworker who lived about a mile down the road from us up on a hill and her entire front yard was just blueberry bushes as far as the eye could see. She had more blueberries than she possibly knew what to do with, so she always invited us up to pick however many we could carry out. Man I miss those days.
So I’ve finished up the second season of Selling Sunset on Netflix. I’m pretty addicted and now I can’t wait until season three comes out on August 7th. What will I do with myself for the next three weeks? I watched the first episode of Unsolved Mysteries, was not impressed, and then got sucked into Selling Sunset HARD. Now that I’m done with Selling Sunset, I’ve crawled back to Unsolved Mysteries out of boredom and the second episode is a little bit better. I’ll continue watching it since I’ve got nothing else going on. but I can’t help but experience feelings of nostalgia for Robert Stack. Growing up, my mom would leave for work during the week at 11:45 am. My sister and I would immediately turn the TV to Unsolved Mysteries and scare the crap out of ourselves by whatever crimes from decades past Robert Stack was delivering to our brains that day. I LOVED IT. So it’s not exactly shocking that I’m let down by Netflix’s version. Hopefully it gets better, but it is 2020 after all and if we’ve learned anything this year, it’s that that’s not a common theme.
I’ve got my tin foil hat on, but hear me out for a second. Is it just me or have you also noticed that they “predict” terrible weather pretty much every weekend? The weather during the week is fine for the most part, but on the weekend we have insane heat (this weekend; yes I realize it’s summer but 95 is pretty hot for the mountains of northern New Hampshire) and tropical storms (last weekend). Last weekend we sat at home because horrible weather was predicted everywhere somehow. Usually when bad weather is predicted in the Whites we can find some other place to hike without issue. But this past weekend, terrible weather was predicted across the entire country (or so it seemed). I was going over this with a fellow tin hat donning colleague and we can’t decide if they really do think bad weather is coming, OR if the powers that be just want us all to stay home and eat and spend money by shopping online. The jury is still out on this. I know it sounds crazy, but again, I’ll remind you that it IS 2020. Isn’t anything possible at this point?
Ingredients
Equipment
Method
- Preheat the oven to 350° F and line a muffin tin with 12 silicone or parchment paper liners.
- Place the butter and the coconut sugar in a large bowl and beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until whipped and combined completely. Add in the eggs, vanilla, lemon juice, and lemon zest and beat on medium until combined. Use a spoon to slowly stir in the almond flour, coconut flour, tapioca flour, sea salt, and baking soda. Gently fold in the blueberries.
- Distribute the batter among the 12 cups; cups will be almost full. Sprinkle a little coconut sugar on the tops of each muffin. Bake at 350° F for 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the muffin comes out dry. Remove the muffins from the tin to let cool completely on a wire rack. Store leftovers covered in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
