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Pumpkin muffins with dark chocolate that are actually healthy? A Leena Eats first!

As the weather here in Northern California slowly starts to grow colder (if you could call 55 F cold–and I do), I find myself craving those traditional, warm, spiced flavors of the winter holidays. And what could be more autumn than pumpkin?

Enter my pumpkin pie muffins with dark chocolate and pistachios. Not only is the recipe healthy (one I borrowed from Food Network’s Elie Krieger), but it tastes like something that will make you fat. The recipe and more food porn after the jump.

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Ain’t no shame in my muffin top!

I’m not ashamed to say that I love me some muffin top. In fact, one could go so far as to say that my muffin tops have saved me from my bad cooking/baking stint–muffin tops to the rescue! Well, in all fairness, the muffin bottoms equally contributed to this victory, but muffin tops are so much more fun to say. Read the rest of this entry »

No muffin tops here! At least until we eat this muffin…then, no promises.

As promised, this is the first annual Monday of Leena Eats, where I will be talking about what I have been cooking lately. I was looking for a quick dessert to bake for a casual dinner party with friends, and I really wanted it to be chocolate, even though the only chocolate I had in the house was organic cocoa powder. That is when I happened upon Alton Brown’s chocolate muffin recipe from his book, I’m Just Here For More Food. All cocoa powder! Score! Read the rest of this entry »

Damn girl, I would love to break me off a piece of that muffin.

One day at the Central Market, I saw a cornbread muffin filled with ricotta and pesto. It stopped me in my tracks. It was like the other 500 people in the market suddenly disappeared, and there was just me and this muffin. Read the rest of this entry »