banana & yomogi muffins.

So my college friend Sher was in NYC last week, and she apparently told the hubs that I would throw fits when our roommates tried to throw out “old” bananas.  She also claims that I made banana bread every other week.  I would like to say that she was making up stories, but I got all excited yesterday when I found some dying bananas in my kitchen…

BANANA & YOMOGI (MUGWORT) MUFFINS.

I don’t feel great about the recipe (too sweet?), but ingredients include over-ripe (read: black) bananas, yomogi (mugwort), millet flour, whole wheat flour, brown sugar, butter, and eggs.

From Wikipedia-

In the Middle Ages, mugwort was used as a magical protective herb. Mugwort was used to repel insects, especially moths, from gardens. Mugwort has also been used from ancient times as a remedy against fatigue and to protect travelers against evil spirits and wild animals. Roman soldiers put mugwort in their sandals to protect their feet against fatigue.

Much used in witchcraft, mugwort is said to be useful in inducing lucid dreaming and astral travel, perhaps proof once again of the hallucinogenic potency of its chemicals.

…Mugwort was used as part of a herbal mixture called gruit, used in the flavoring of beer before the widespread introduction of hops. Once again, it is possible that drinkers of the beer were not only intoxicated from the beer, but also from the hallucinogenic properties of the plant.

Once cooked, the plant’s hallucinogenic chemicals are neutralized.

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