{"id":28135,"date":"2012-12-07T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=28135"},"modified":"2018-03-28T23:57:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T03:57:18","slug":"ill-make-it-myself-whole-wheat-ginger-squash-muffins-with-chocolate-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/07\/ill-make-it-myself-whole-wheat-ginger-squash-muffins-with-chocolate-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Make It Myself!: Whole-Wheat Ginger-Squash Muffins with Chocolate Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>L.M. Zoller <\/strong>(CIR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hot-ishikawa.jp\/f-lang\/english\/index.html\">Ishikawa<\/a>-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of <\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ishikawajet.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/07\/master-cooking-in-japan-with-the-ishikawa-kitchen\/\">The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight<\/a><\/strong>.<em> A writer and web administrator for <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/theartoftravel.net\/\"><strong>The Art of Travel<\/strong><\/a><em>, ze also writes <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.net\"><strong>I\u2019ll Make It Myself!<\/strong><\/a>,<em> a blog about food culture in Japan, and curates <em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/category\/category\/category\/2012\/03\/18\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/rice-cooker-chronicles\/\"><strong>Rice Cooker Chronicles<\/strong><\/a>, a series of essays by JETs and JET alumni on the theme of cooking\/eating and being alone in Japan. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>New Rice Cooker Chronicles submissions always welcome. Just e-mail it to <strong>jetwit [at] jetwit.com<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One last(?) squash pur\u00e9e recipe for the season!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.illmakeitmyself.net\/2012\/12\/04\/whole-wheat-ginger-squash-muffins-with-chocolate-chips\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.illmakeitmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_3979-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I live in a country where the only cold cereals available at regular grocery stores (Tokyo Metro, you don\u2019t count) are frosted flakes and cocoa puffs.*\u00a0 As a result, I\u2019ve learned to make a variety of breakfast foods. I\u2019m actually not sure how I only ended up with <a title=\"Healthy Comfort Food: Whole-Wheat Strawberry-Orange Muffins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.illmakeitmyself.net\/2011\/03\/23\/healthy-comfort-food-whole-wheat-strawberry-orange-muffins\/\">one muffin recipe<\/a> on the blog onsidering the frequency with which we eat them at home. Muffins are the ideal food for the Japanese kitchen: their size means they cook through easily, unlike some quick breads; silicone muffin cups are easy to find; and the infinite variations you can make means you can adapt them to whatever flours (including gluten-free), milk, or seasonal fruit you can find in your area. Plus, they\u2019re just fun to eat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.illmakeitmyself.net\/2012\/12\/04\/whole-wheat-ginger-squash-muffins-with-chocolate-chips\/\"><em><strong>Click HERE to read more.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L.M. Zoller (CIR Ishikawa-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight. A writer and web administrator for The Art of Travel, ze also writes I\u2019ll Make It Myself!, a blog about food culture in Japan, and curates The Rice Cooker Chronicles, a series of essays by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,70,396,6],"tags":[755,401,392,134,824,1397,822,778,460,823],"class_list":["post-28135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-food-drink","category-ill-make-it-myself","category-writers","tag-baking-in-japan","tag-chocolate","tag-cooking-in-japan","tag-food","tag-ginger","tag-ill-make-it-myself","tag-muffins","tag-pumpkin","tag-recipe","tag-squash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-7jN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42803,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28135\/revisions\/42803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}