Applesauce Muffins

I saw the recipe for these this morning on The Gluten-Free Homemaker, and tried them out right away. I need some muffins in my life. They are really good! So good that my whole family likes them. I followed the original recipe exactly, with the exception of the nuts (I don't really care for nuts in my baked goods), so I left them out here.

Ingredients
1 1/2 c. applesauce
4 eggs
3/4 c. sugar
1/3 c. canola or coconut oil
1 c. brown rice flour
1/4 c. sorghum flour
1/2 c. potato starch
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven 325°.
2. Generously grease 18 muffin cups.
3. In a large bowl, combine the applesauce, eggs, sugar, and oil with a spatula or wooden spoon.
4. In a smaller bowl, whisk together the flours, potato starch, salt, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg.
5. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir just until moistened.
6. Spoon the batter into the muffin tins. 
7. Bake for 15 – 20 minutes or until the tops of the muffins spring back when touched lightly.
8. Cool for several minutes in the muffin pan, then move to a wire rack to finish cooling.

Allison's notes:

I only have one muffin tin, so I filled my mini-muffin tin with the remaining batter. For me, the regular muffins baked for 20 minutes, while the mini muffins baked for 16.

Calabacitas

Our mom acquired this recipe from somewhere - I think from a co-worker of our dad's years ago.  The co-worker actually titled the dish "Calavasitas," but when I checked around on the internet the most common spelling listed was "Calabacitas," meaning "little squash" in Spanish.  I don't know why the different spellings (since I don't know the first thing about any other language except my own).  Either way, it's a yummy way to use that extra zucchini from the garden, or (if you live in Arizona and your zucchini died many months ago) from the grocery store.

Ingredients:

4 medium green zucchini, sliced
1/2 onion, chopped
2 small tomatoes, chopped
1 cup corn (canned, frozen, or even better, fresh!)
Cheddar cheese
Salt and pepper

Directions:

1. Saute onion and tomato with a little butter.  
2. Add zucchini, corn, salt, and pepper and cook until soft.  
3. Top with cheese and serve.