Friday Cooking Recap

This week I only had one planned recipe to try. Lemon Blueberry Muffins, from Deceptively Delicious.

I would like to say that they were my least favorite of all the muffins we've tried from that cookbook. But, I can't even give them that much credit. I thought they were pretty gross. I only ate one before I froze them, so I will try at least one more before I toss them out and see if I like it any better.

The recipe called for squash. Maybe that was it. I have never liked squash, but supposedly you aren't supposed to able to taste it anyway. The recipe also called for grated lemon peel, but I also hate that so I just omitted it. I felt there would be enough lemon flavor with the cup of lemon yogurt and the 2 tsp of lemon extract. Maybe it wasn't the squash that made them disgusting, maybe it was the over-lemony taste. I like lemon to a point. I like lemon pudding and yogurt and lemon meringue pie. I always eat lemon candy last, but I'll still eat it. I think 2 teaspoons of lemon extract was just too much. If I even attempt them again I am cutting that in half. Either way, I wouldn't recommend these.

On to next week. I am planning on Baked Egg Puffs. They sound similar to those Egg White Bites, but they have more ingredients and won't be as healthy. This week we picked up a bread knife to match our steak knives, and when I was at the store I grabbed some ramekins to bake the egg puffs in. We'll see how they go. They can't be worse than the muffins.

I also want to make strawberry jam, granola, and yogurt. Those all require ingredients I don't currently have so I might not get to them for a while. I really want to go berry picking this month and if we make it out I'll have to come up with some berry recipes to try.

I miss baking sweets. In the last 5 or 6 weeks (however long I've been on the sweets ban) I have come across 7 recipes that I want to try. And that doesn't include any of the cupcake ones I want to try from all of the cupcake decorating books that are out right now. That would be too much temptation though. Maybe in a different life.