Our Blueberry Muffin Recipe – Makes Up to 36
May 12, 2025
Our Own Fruit Muffin Recipe

UPDATE! For variety, try this with summer peaches and add a tablespoon of nutmeg and a tablespoon of cinnamon!
These are great for special occasions or just to have on hand for morning breakfast and coffee. They keep well in the freezer and re-heat in just seconds. The recipe is forgiving if you have just a tad more or less of the large bulk ingredients, but you may produce fewer or more than the 36 “standard” muffins that we usually make.
Our starting point was this recipe: Blueberry Oatmeal Flax Muffins — Dr. Karen Wallace, ND | Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (drkarenwallace.com)
Then we made our own improvements as we experimented. Finally, we doubled the recipe to make up to 36 muffins at a time. After eating a couple of these delicious muffins right out of the oven, we then placed the rest on parchment paper, freeze and then store in a resealable freezer bag.
To reheat, we just place on a microwave-safe plate with a damp paper towel on top and select “HIGH” for thirty seconds. Perfect! (Click the “paid ad” ingredient links below to see EXACTLY what brands we buy.)
What’s next? experimenting with other fruits and flavored extracts for the batter. If you like these muffins as much as our family does, please bookmark this page and share it! (Also, check out our recipe for Cornbread Muffins.)
#1: Assemble these utensils.
Utensils:
- 4 quart/16 Cup (or larger) mixing Bowl (For Dry Ingredients)
- 4 Cup (or larger) Measuring Cup (For Wet Ingredients)
- 2 Cup Measuring Cup (For Water or Buttermilk – your choice!)
- ¼ Cup Measuring Cup (Optional: 4 Tbsp = ¼ Cup)
- 1 Tbsp. (tablespoon) Measuring Spoon
- ½ tsp. (teaspoon) Measuring Spoon
- 1 tsp. (teaspoon) Measuring Spoon (Optional: 2 x ½ tsp = 1 tsp)
- 1 Large Mixing Spoon (For Final Mixture and Measuring batter into muffin cups)
- Muffin Pans for up to 36 Muffins and these (Paid Ad) reusable silicon muffin cups!
#2: Add one dry ingredient at a time in this order to the mixing bowl, and thoroughly mix with whisk each time an ingredient is added.

Dry Ingredients:
- 1 tsp. salt (can be omitted)
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/4 cup (4 Tbsp.) buttermilk powder (Paid Ad)
- 1 cup Xylitol Sweetener (Paid Ad)
- 1 cup ground flax seed meal (Paid Ad)
- 2 cups gluten free flour (Paid Ad)
- 2 cups rolled oats (Paid Ad)
(Approximately 6 ¼ Cups Dry Ingredients)
Fruit Ingredient:
- 2 pints of whole blueberries, diced peaches, cherries, cranberries, apples, or other fruit (Preferably frozen – sized like whole blueberries)
(Approximately 4 Cups Fruit)
#3: Melt Butter in microwave. Do not Overheat.
#4: Add and mix one wet Ingredient at a time in order to the 4-cup measuring cup in this order.
#5: Confirm mixture temperature has cooled before adding eggs.
Wet Ingredients:
- 2/3 cup melted butter (11 Tbsp.)
- 1 3/4 cup cold water
- 1 cup unsweetened refrigerated applesauce (Paid Ad)
- 2 eggs
- 2 Tbsp. Lemon Extract (Paid Ad)
(Use Lemon Extract with blueberries. Other extracts to compliment other fruit fillings)
(Approximately 4 Cups Liquid Ingredients)
#6: Combine and thoroughly mix the wet and dry ingredients.
*** You Can Use an electric mixer to get a thoroughly mixed muffin batter! ***

#7: Fold the fruit into the mixed wet and dry ingredients with a large mixing spoon.
#8: Scoop into reusable muffin pans lined with the reusable silicon baking cups (above). Makes 24-36 muffins, depending on your “generosity” with the batter to each muffin cup.
#9: Bake at 350 degrees convection (375 Conventional) for 20 minutes.
#10: Remove One Muffin and Enjoy!

Red Light Therapy For Ears (and Nose?)
February 7, 2025
Mom is one hundred years young and struggled for a year with an ear drum injury that would not heal. We communicated in writing with an iPad – just to be certain that she understood a few words.
After a month with this device, (once a day for thirty minutes on the default setting) we all noticed that her hearing had improved to the point where we could have conversations again.
Will it work for you if you have problems healing an ear or similar injury? Don’t know – but we have been recommending them to friends. It worked in our family, and it’s worth a try if you have a similar condition.
Red light therapy is claimed to be an aid to healing, inflammation reduction and recovery from infection.
If you want to know about Red Light Therapy for head and scalp, click here.
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The Red Light Hat
February 7, 2025
In the evening, with a favorite show or daily news, is a perfect time for me. I look forward to a thirty-minute session with this warm and comforting Red Light Therapy Hat every day. The manufacturer wants to tell you about hair growth benefits, but I have found other benefits for myself.
For me, this Red Light Therapy Hat is another tool to reduce inflammation and promote healing and health. My sister claims that it shortened her bout of winter flu this year.
If you haven’t tried Red Light Therapy, click the “hat” picture above and take a look around Amazon. You will find many Red Light products designed for different therapies. You could consider starting with one to see if you personally benefit from red light on your back, your scalp or your ears.
If you are interested in Red Light Therapy for Ears/Nose, look here.
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Portable Book Scanner
February 7, 2025
For a long time, I could not bring myself to discard or store my Dad’s awards and recognitions of service over his sixty-year career. Four years after his passing, I found this unique scanner design. Since Plaques and trophies are three dimensional – they are not reliably scanned in a traditional flatbed scanner.
Using this scanner, I was able to preserve a high-resolution image of each memento and share them through the Ancestry family tree web site.
The scanner is essentially a camera system. It is fast and easy to use. If you need to scan anything of reasonable size that will not work on a flatbed scanner, give this a try.
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Wireless Solar Powered Security Camera
November 1, 2024
Don’t take my word for it. Do your own research before you attach any of the latest “Internet of Things” gadget to your home network. Cameras, smart switches, robo-vacs, WIFI refrigerators, and more can all potentially be hacked.
There are no fool-proof protections from these “inside the firewall” devices if they do go rogue; but there are a few things you can do to reduce the risks. First: recognize that these are “do it yourself” consumer products and may not be suited for a commercial or industrial environment unless vetted by professionals and continually monitored by “enterprise grade” network surveillance.
If you install one of these many devices on a home network, don’t leave computer file sharing, computers, and other devices “open” on your home network with either no password protection or factory default passwords that have never been changed. Get expert help if necessary to make sure that all the devices on your home network have some protection from each other in the event that a gadget, your computer or even a printer becomes infected with malware. I always use “httpS:” links when browsing and sometimes even a VPN service from my computer or phone, but as I said – nothing is foolproof.
If you have special security needs, please consult a professional.
Now that we are all properly cautioned and half-thinking about returning to a pre-technology era when fire was a novelty – let me tell you how eufy persuaded me to buy and use seven of these reasonably priced high-resolution cameras.
I first did what you should do; I searched the web and news for the latest information on eufy and digital security. There were stories that were critical of the product and stories that the company had responded by incorporating encryption. (More about that later.)
Then I saw that eufy cameras offered a “cloud storage” feature, but it was entirely optional. The eufy app communicates directly with both live and recorded video stored inside the camera. eufy claims that connections from your phone to the camera are encrypted.
Every eufy camera customer will have the smartphone/tablet eufy “Security” app and a eufy account secured with a username and password. The eufy account useraname and password is your “key” to access the encrypted camera.
Each camera is paired with the home Wi-Fi connection and the password-secured app when you first install it. (The instructions are simple, but you may have to attempt the pairing ritual twice.) I found it works best when the camera, the smartphone and the Wi-Fi access point are all in close proximity.
Once paired, the camera’s stored video or live feed is accessible with your smartphone or tablet from any location with reasonably fast internet. A live feed typically “clocks in” at 100Kb – 300Kb per second. Even an old DSL internet connection should be able to handle that.
The most useful feature for me is the smart notification. The camera is sensitive to motion and even has the ability to distinguish simple motion from what appear to be human figures. You customize every feature of the camera with the app and receive notifications any time the camera detects some movement.
I am very pleased with the performance of the camera at night. It’s black and white nighttime mode is sensitive to Infrared light and images are captured on all but the blackest of nights without additional lighting.
It is best to fully charge the camera with a USB cable before installation. Once charged, my cameras have reliably held enough power to carry it through a couple of cloudy and rainy days – even with partial sun!
eufy is continually introducing variations on this product – so shop around at Amazon for the best price/resolution for your needs.