In my new role of domestic house-person i thought the least i could do was tie an apron on and get baking (in between naps and watching Mad Men).
Motivated by fresh rhubarb from our trips to Flemington markets and a never ending stash of mini italian style baking cups it was time for muffins (i scored mine when working at a food magazine but i believe Essential Ingredient has something similar).
I dont really have many cookbooks with baking recipes and tend to turn to the interwebs, finding this Rhubarb Muffin recipe from cuisine.com.au the best fit for what i had.
I don't know how you'd get 15 muffins out of this, i got a dozen and they were a nice size. I guess 15 would be rather tiny.
The cinnamon sugar worked a treat and i think i will do something similar on all muffin like things i bake in the future.
I also tossed the chopped rhubarb in a bit of caster sugar before mixing it in as it was kind of sticking together.
Apologies for the pic not being of the usual food-blog standard, my photographer was at work and i revert to lo-tech iPhone snaps when he isn't about to wield the Canon 4D.

Every month or so Mr Blue-eyes gets the urge to bust out the yeast and whip up a batch of pizzas for dinner.

A nice puffy dough from the right flour with yeast for the right amount of time to rise.

Aint it cute, all the toppings prepped in little bowls just like on the telly. The bowl on the far right is one of our home made sausages cooked and unskinned.

All topped ready for the oven.

And now ready for slicing, although tempting to tuck straight in one has to wait for the molten tomato bits to cool slightly so you don't burn the roof of the mouth and leave that flappy bit of skin.

One of the projects on the list for the new house will be the construction of a proper woodfired pizza oven, but there are just a few things ahead of it on the list. Like putting doors back on the bedrooms after the floors were sanded.