TABLETOP TUESDAY - muffins + melamine

i'm a big fan of baked goodies...especially when they are quick + easy to make!

i doctored up the recipe from a box of trader joe's banana bread mix by adding:

~ 1 mashed ripe banana

~ a handful of chopped strawberries 

~ about a teaspoon of penzey's vanilla

~ a few shakes of penzey's vietnamese cinnamon cassia

~ 1/4 cup of bob's red mill flaxseed meal

~ a handful of toasted chopped walnuts (just put them in the oven once preheated for about 7 minutes)

then threw these now "strawberry banana walnut flaxseed muffins" on a picnic-friendly melamine plate and took them outside for breakfast (my three year old is obsessed with dining al fresco!).

my melamine is from target, bought a few years back. but you get these cuties at gracious home:

"jonathan adler acapulco"

"felix"

"sealife"

from counter to table in about 30 minutes flat, now that's what i call fast food!

(photo credits: lissa lowe/muffin and gracious home/tabletop shots)