rainy+muffins

Its a very rainy Friday here and Ryan and I are both home. This morning I decided to make some muffins. When we were in Auckland last spring we ate breakfast at this coffee shop by our hotel almost every morning. They had the best banana chocolate chip muffins, and we had a few to make sure that they were in fact the best. I tried to make them once before when we got home from the trip, to recreate the experience, but they weren't quite the same.
This morning I thought I would try again. I had three bananas to use up and enough chocolate chips to give it a go. They turned out great. I followed the banana nut muffin recipe in Joy of Cooking. Omitting the walnuts for the chocolate. Maybe its because its been almost a year since we had the New Zealand ones and I've forgotten the caliber I was aiming for or these were just good. The recipe said they are best served warm but I disagree. I am eating one cold right now and I think I like it better than this mornings.
I also have some granola in the oven right now. As some of you know I am on a quest for homemade granola that clusters...so I'm following the same recipe I made before just I'm baking it like its a bar (not stirring it at all and keeping it covered so it doesn't burn) and then I will crumble it when it cools. I hope this works.