I just came out of a crazy 3 week project that was made up of 14-16 hour days. I am not as young as I used to be - what a shocker. So explains the lack of blogging and the effort to press the button on my camera that takes the photo the past weeks. So it's like this, work work work 6 days of 14 hours - rest Sunday. And all I can think of - besides sleeping is baking bread! It's like I needed to do something else and I needed to bake bread. Specifically healthy 3 Seeded bread rolls. All of my favourite seeds: Flax, Sunflower and Poppy. This is so healthy and good for you because of the rich amounts of Omega 3 oils from the Flax, the vitamins and minerals from the Wheat germ, and it's so flavourful! This week's version is a slight variation because I ran out of whole wheat flour - and of course you make a white bread version.

I just found out from Wikipedia why Poppy seeds can't be found here in Singapore. Although it's really very harmless, the drug opium is produced by "milking" latex from the unripe fruits ("seed pods") rather than from the seeds, all parts of the plant can contain or carry the opium alkaloids, especially morphine and codeine. This means that eating foods (e.g., muffins) that contain poppy seeds can result in a false positive for opiates in a drug test. And so the sale of poppy seeds from Papaver somniferum is banned in here due to the morphine content. And if you've had poppy seeds you know you don't feel like you can fall asleep forever and ever.

I've also since discovered the wonderful joy of adding Milk powder instead of Milk to breads - they are much better conditioners! This recipe was one that I found on Allrecipes.com but have since made some variations to it.

I wonder if I will get arrested for eating poppy seeds bread rolls...?

What a week! This week started with a job that will see me through to 3 weeks of intensive late late nights - I just completed week 1 and have 2 more to go. Most of the entries for Muffin Monday flooded in at the same time. I have a mail notifier that goes *Bing!* whenever I get new mail so while I'm working, I'm also sometimes hearing *Bing! Bing! Bing!* in the background and it made me glad to know that I now have a well balanced life and people want to take part in my event! Woo!

Green Tea muffins has been sitting in my head for a long time now and I've finally made it to commemorate the round up of a very successful first Muffin Monday! Also I've been wondering what to make for Zorra's St Pat's Day: Green or Irish, and was curious how green these muffins would turn out. They obviously became a little brown...

Early round up! (Couldn't wait to blog about this!)

43 45 46 muffin recipes from 38>/s> 40 41 bakers around the world! Huge thanks to everyone who participated in Muffin Monday! For those who don't already know, the round up can be found here.

The response of the first ever Muffin Monday was fabulous and I am overwhelmed by everyone's enthusiastic participation. I was initially uncertain if anyone would be interested and was really hoping to have at least 5 people participating. It became really exciting when more and more people filled in my inbox with their great recipes.

How Muffin Monday came about and became a food blog event?

Muffin Monday was something I created at work some months ago - every Monday I would bring in muffins I've baked to treat my colleagues (who I've since spoiled). And quite honestly, I was running out of ideas. At the same time I was having quite a lot of fun participating in other food blog events that other food bloggers have hosted. So I thought - why not make Muffin Monday a food blog event and have other food bloggers make their colleagues and friends very happy people on a Monday morning! Share the love! And then I'll have so many recipes to choose from every week for weeks to come!

It was fantastic to see how everyone got creative in the kitchen, transforming a simple basic recipe into something scrumptious and delightful! Bananas, coconut, chocolate and pineapple were the more popular ingredients used (you really can't go wrong with them). While there are some a little more adventurous bakers who went with more unusual ingredients like sun-dried tomatoes, mars bars and zucchini.

I've had a blast hosting this event, it brought me to wonderful food blogs I've never known and it was fun reading everyone's entries - also it was great knowing people had fun baking their muffins! I'm so glad how well it all turned out because I now have so many more food blogging friends from around the world!

So what's next?! When is MM02 going to happen? Who wants to host the next Muffin Monday MM02? How does this work? I don't know! Leave your comments and I guess we'll find out!