Photo Friday: Bad Muffins
November 20, 2009 by Jenn
Filed under All Posts, Photo Fridays, Photography
Looks and smells can definitely be deceiving at times. While I’ve quite enjoyed exploring Bittman’s vegetarian cooking tome, I do run across a recipe that just doesn’t work for me well.
These muffins are a great example. The first time I tried them they were only okay.
This time was horrible. The biggest problem with Bittman’s book is the amount of options he gives to adjust or modify a recipe. This is one such instance. This time I made these muffins using a bit of cornmeal, a bit of flour, a bit of whole wheat flour. I also threw in a bit of grated Scharffen Berger chocolate. I had hoped to make a delectable blueberry chocolate muffin. It looked good. It smelled good. It tasted like blech.
What was I thinking?! Waste of blueberries and chocolate! The cornmeal was a big culprit in this. Cornmeal just doesn’t make a good muffin for me. At least not in this instance.
I still haven’t found a blueberry muffin recipe that really knocks my socks off. Back to the ol’ drawing board as it were.
Happy Friday everyone! Have a good one.
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ROTFL. That cracked me up. I love that show.
The muffins were bad…
Very bad.
Blueberries – they are such divas! They don’t generally play nice with chocolate. Corn meal is nice for adding texture or highlighting savory flavors, but I can’t imagine it pairs well with the chocolate, either.
I guess this means you need to send me your chocolate. For the sake of your muffin experimentations, of course! No? Well then, cook & bake on!
Liz,
Every time you post here you either have something quite good to say or you crack me up. LOL! I always enjoy your comments.
This one cracked me up. But the chocolate stays with me! B/c I just found this recipe for chocolate vegetarian chili…