Savory Breakfast Muffins

Wow, so the last update was in January. That's a long time ago. I've been making plenty of things, I've just been too lazy to post any of them. Well, I made these lovely Savory Breakfast Muffins last weekend, and now I'm finally ready to write about it. These guys are colorful, tasty, and make for a good breakfast.  Plus, they've got vegetables, so they must be good for you.

So the recipe's pretty easy to follow, and it tastes good. I made a few changes to the recipe though, based on what I wanted and what I had:

First of all, who keeps whole-wheat flour around?  Probably a few people, and I don't judge them, they're probably healthier than me, but I don't.  Instead, I did a little switch and replace action.  Instead of two cups whole-wheat flower and one cup all-purpose flour, I used two cups all-purpose flour and one cup fine semolina. I would rather use corn meal, but semolina makes a nice stand in when you don't have any (good replacement for making grits, too).

Second; buttermilk: didn't have any.  Yogurt makes a good replacement, so that's what I used.  I don't know who these people are that keep buttermilk lying around for baking, but I've always needed to go to the store for that stuff. Buttermilk only seems useful for baking things, and it doesn't keep long enough between baking projects.  I'm not about to run to the store for some buttermilk when I'm making breakfast, so it's a good thing yogurt works so well.

Finally: I didn't have any Canadian bacon (who does?), so I used some chorizo that had been sitting in my refrigerator for a couple weeks. Chorizo keeps forever, and it's spicy.  I think it's another good substitution.

I also made two tiny mistake, but was able to correct them thanks to the fact that my oven doesn't hold a full-sized muffin tin. I've got to use a little 6-muffin tin, so I was able to spot and correct my mistakes over a couple pan-fulls.  The recipe says it makes 12, but I got 18 out of it.

So the recipe says to add 1 1/3 cups buttermilk.  I don't know what I was smoking, but I read that as one, 1/3 cup measure of buttermilk.  Definitely my mistake, and one I didn't make anywhere else in the recipe.  I did think it looked a little weird when I tried to put the following into the muffin tins:

 Yeah, it shouldn't be that dry.  Well, after basically throwing out that first batch of six, I re-read the recipe and found my mistake.  So I added the extra yogurt (I actually ran out and went with a yogurt-milk mixture), and put the next batch in the oven. It was then that I remembered that the recipe was also supposed to have Cheddar cheese.  Damn, how did I forget that?  So it wasn't until the last batch of six that I actually had everything.  Luckily, the batch without cheese was still pretty good.

 Fin.