Out Breath and Sweet Potato Muffins

It has been so long since I have written!

My apologies. My life has been filled with twists and turns, cooking and baking, loving and fighting, and lots of driving.

We are settling into our house in Oakland and I am finishing my year at LEAPNOW. I am learning and loving and trying to be human in all of it.

Regular posts will follow as my life takes a quick out-breath, before another 8-day retreat as students return from all over the world.

It is a time for harvest as I look back to September, but for today I simply write with a poem and recipe. The muffins don't have any sugar in them and break open with steam fresh out of the oven. I hope they warm your heart and soul.

Do you also Run

Do you also run

Hands heaping

overflowing with gasping muffins

To your neighbors door.

Begging for a sigh,

one simple steaming bite

Do you also plead with the Universe

For a slap-your-face sign

Dripping wet

Asking Why

Do you also yell

I will never be good enough

At anything.

The only hope I have

For this dance of no hope

Is that I might be good enough at being human

I might be good enough at being human

Summer's Sweet Potato Muffins

Adapted from “Good to the Grain”

1 medium sweet potato--baked and peeled

1 cup whole wheat flour

1 cup unbleached flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 tbl cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp allspice

1 cup oats

2 oz butter

2 eggs

1 cup buttermilk

1/2 cup yogurt

8 dates--pitted and diced 

Preheat oven to 350. Combine dry ingredients in a bowl. Mix together butter, eggs, buttermilk, and yogurt, and add half the sweet potato. Combine with dry ingredients, then mix in the rest of the sweet potato and dates. Mix until just combined, and then spoon into muffin tins.

Bake at 350 for 20 min.