Out of my Comfort Zone

Well it's been a while since I blogged, which could make you feel August is not a month for inventing new flavours, but you'd be wrong. I have had a few challenges thrown at me along the summer - my brother challenged me to create some muffins at his house, just to see if I could make them just as well 'out of my comfort zone'. He didn't have gas, and had a fan oven. I don't know the conversions, so we had to 'internet' the answers. He chucked a couple of large mangos at me and said "bake". His kitchen proved to be a challenge, his baking ingredients were spread out in several cupboards (oh how I love my pantries back home, where everything is in one 'baking' space). His weighing scales weren't digital - I needed a microscope to read the bars! But we ventured on, and despite the lack of a microwave for melting the butter, between us we managed to make a dozen mango and vanilla muffins that tasted just yummy. so we ate them for supper, breakfast and lunch, but did save a couple for my niece when she came to stay too. The recipe was guessed at so I can't even tell you what went in them, but it just goes to show that you can make muffins anywhere, anytime and I succeeded in my challenge! phew!!
This is (obviously) not a picture of the mango muffins, but a giraffe we met at Chester Zoo, who looks like she is eating one of them!