Musical pairing – Save Me, San Francisco by Train
Since I’m getting ready to head to San Francisco for the weekend, and since I’m waayyyyy behind on my writing, photo editing and overall blogging schedule, this post is going to be down and dirty quick! So hold on to your hats, Nellie, here we go . . .
A couple months back, some good friends of ours, Chris and Karen of the fabulous food blog The Peche, had mentioned on Twitter that they were baking up a batch of Banana Espresso Muffins. Now I must confess that anything with the word ‘espresso’ in it, gets my attention – pronto. So I tweeted back, ‘recipe please’ and Chris was kind enough to send the link my direction. And lickety-split, I was in the kitchen slapping these babies together; within the hour, The Professor was singing the praises of Chris and Karen with a mouth full of fabulous muffin . . . it’s ok, The Professor loves me more . . . of that I am somewhat confident . . .
The recipe comes from the two geniuses of Baked fame which makes me even more excited because on our trip to Charleston this past spring, we had the pleasure of visiting their store more than once during our stay. If you’re lucky enough to live in New York and you haven’t visited, shame on you! If you live in Charleston and haven’t visited that location, shame on you! The rest of you visiting either location – they are a ‘must stop by!’ or you get a shame on you too!
By the way, Chris and Karen are also the creative geniuses behind BHF10PP (BlogHer Food 10 PITY PARTY) that has taken the food blogging world by storm; follow along with them this weekend on Twitter (#BHF10PP) when about 350 food bloggers will descend on San Francisco – are you ready San Francisco? ‘Cuz the city won’t ever be the same! Chris & Karen have some really terrific swag to be given away throughout the weekend and The Professor and I will be doing a Red Carpet segment via U-Stream on Friday evening – we’ll be live 9-10pm PACIFIC TIME (time approx). Who knows, we might be lucky enough to score an interview with the fabulous Jaden Hair of Steamy Kitchen, Ethel Merman, I mean, Ree Drummond of Pioneer Woman and the ever-so-uber Elise Bauer of Simply Recipes plus sooooooo many other fun, food-loving and equally fabulous food bloggers!
So without further ado . . .
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Hope you had a great time on your trip and looking forward to hearing about it soon. I read about the BHF10PP on BlogHer and tried to sign up then, but for some reason I couldn’t get to the registration page. That’s not a good sign, is it? Does that make one doubly pitiful if you can’t even make the pity party?
Making these this morning. Thank you for the kind words and your friendship. (These really are great!)
Banana espresso is an unlikely yet intriguing combo and they do look fabulous! And I missed having you on twitter this weekend! Get home fast!
There must be something in the air this week, I’m seeing banana recipes all over the place. But these look like the tastiest of the bunch (pun intended) that I’ve found.
Wow. Those are the way to wake up in the morning! Delish!
Hope you have a lovely time in SF…tell us all about it!
How much fun will it be to be living vicariously through your eyes…, I’m going to check you guys out on U-Stream too.
Save travels to SanFran! I’ll be wallowing first at work, then on the couch, then on the train to PA this weekend for the Pity Party!
Lovely muffins!
These look amazing! I’m bookmarking that U-Stream link for later so that I can live vicariously through you. 😉
What a delicious recipe! And I hope you have an amazing weekend. It sounds just fabulous. I’m super tired from graduate class tonight, so my comment will be brief, but as always I enjoyed your post!
Shame on me for not living in the right area!!
Would it be terrible to purposefully let bananas “go black” just so I could make this recipe?!?!
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Oh I hear you on the Espresso…what is with that? I mean it’s not like I never get to drink it or anything! These sound delish…maybe too much so for a Pity Party so I’ll wait but soon, very soon.
I love muffins, espresso and bananas. These seem like the perfect combination. Thanks for posting the recipe.
OMG! These look amazing!
Whoa, these look good! Although my laser-like focus is always on coffee at breakfast time, to the exclusion of all else, I’d love to have one of these with lunch or for an afternoon snack. Nice!
Aww Debra, I now have images of you and the professor on the red carpet burnt in my mind. You are wearing a a beautiful long gown in that image! You would have totally rocked it!! 🙂 You know my achilles heel is muffins, just love them, just in time to try your receipe, never combined espresso and bananas in a muffin. Love how your write with ease and pay such special tributes to some wonderful people.
Have a great time and tip a glass (or two!) for me! I so wish I could be there, but it wasn’t in the stars (bad, bad airlines!!). I will be a partying (cryin’!) soul back here at the Pity Party!!
Oh wow! These look great!
Can’t wait to see you on the red carpet! I’ll be at home in my jammies! 😉
Delicious Banana Espresso Muffins recipe! Have fun in San Fran! 🙂
I could use a couple of these for on the drive to San Francisco tomorrow. I hope we get a chance to meet!