My New Favorite Yummy Muffins

By Jalina Mhyana
 

1. combine 2/3 cup sugar with a stick of melted butter
2. mix together
3. add 1 & 3/4 cup self-rising flour and 3 mashed bananas (the uglier the better)
4. add 1 regular package of dry vanilla pudding and 2 eggs
5. add a handful of chololate chips
6. mix everything together
7. bake at around 325 for about 45 minutes

* top with melted butter and salt for unabashed decadence*
 

Jalina Mhyana is a two-time Pushcart nominee who works as a massage therapist and freelance journalist near Frankfurt, Germany. Her chapbook Spikeseed was published by Bad Moon Books in spring, 2004, and her poetry has been published in Room of One's Own, Slipstream, Margin and others. She was a finalist in Perigee Journal's 2005 poetry contest judged by Judy Jordan. She is editor in chief of Rock Salt Plum Review an online poetry journal in which she has published her interviews with poets Li-Young Lee, Denise Duhamel, Kim Addonizio, Laurie Kuntz, and others. Jalina is an MFA candidate in the creative writing program at Bennington College.