The Nooks and Crannies
I’ve never been a rock star in the kitchen. Most of my cooking is edible but not something to make me famous. Some of my exploits in the kitchen have turned a normal ” What did you make? ” into something of a comedy at our house.
Like the time I made homemade, from scratch English muffins. Yep, this was straight from the Julia Child’s recipe.
While I dislike English muffins, my husband and his family love them and I thought during one of their annual trips to see us I’d make up a batch of these versus buying a package of the nooks and crannies version.
It was kitchen insanity at its best. Instead of grace, a cute British accent, cleverly used rolling pin and handsome apron it was chaos, swear words and flying flour.
Personally, I think an English muffin is a piece bread with an identity crisis.
Is it a muffin, a pita or just an ill formed piece of toast?
Do the English even eat these types of “muffins?”
If so, do they not realize the glory and beauty of a huge fluffy blueberry muffin warm from the oven with melting butter spread in the center? What do they call a real muffin?
Why would I want nooks and crannies in my bread?
Is it even technically a muffin?
Here’s the recipe I used if you’d like to try them
http://oneperfectbite.blogspot.com/2010/03/homemade-english-muffins-julia-child.html
I made a lot of them and froze them for use during the time people would be at our home. To warm, I put them in a warm pan on the stove top and toasted them until lightly brown.