I have long hankered for just the thing to eat on Thanksgiving morning.  It needs to be quickly and easily whipped up and served to the non-cooks who then need to go for a walk, go watch the parade, or do whatever they want, but most importantly, get out of the kitchen! Serious business is afoot.

Ah, pumpkin muffins.  The thing is, I baked my way through four recipes that I found and didn’t like any of them. First of all, I feel strongly that they need to be really pumpkiny.  Some had applesauce in lieu of some of the pumpkin and then they weren’t appropriately orange and that kind of defeated the whole point as far as I’m concerned.   A couple called for cream cheese frosting on top.  Now to me, that turns them into a cupcake, and I’m really not a proponent of cupcakes for breakfast.  Not that I don’t want a party going on up top…I most assuredly do!   Some of them made mingy little things.  Not good enough.  I want a big, bold muffin….big enough, in fact, to keep them out of my hair until time for THE MEAL.