Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Tuesdays with Dorie: Savory Corn & Pepper Muffins

This week's selection comes from Rebecca of Ezra Pound Cake. She has a great blog with gorgeous pictures and excellent recipes. This was a non-dessert-y recipe which was a nice change of pace.
The original recipe calls for jalapeno, chili powder and red bell pepper. The 'Playing Around' part of the recipe omitted those things and increased the sugar for a richer less spicy version, which is what I did. I increased the corn a little but kept the recipe the same otherwise. It was an easy recipe to make and they would have been excellent with chili I think. However, since I married to the pickiest man on earth, I did not serve them with chili. Instead we ate them with buttermilk fried chicken. They were good, crumbly, very much like cornbread. And I think they could have used even more corn (at least I would have liked more corn in them). This was a welcome change from our regular sweet baking selection, thanks again Rebecca!

9 comments:

chocolatechic said...

Looks fabulous.

Anonymous said...

Your pictures are beautiful. I meant to try half plain, but I got too lazy.

Jessica said...

Fried chicken sounds so good. I bet that these muffins were so good with it!

Anonymous said...

I liked this one too. They look great.

Anonymous said...

Fried chicken! I'm so envious. I've been craving it, but Jeff's working late, so we've got to get the timing right. Delish.

Leslie said...

I bet these were amazing with fried chicken. They look yummy!

Cooking for Comfort by Jennifer said...

Lovely!

Who's music is on your blog? I LOVE it!

Anonymous said...

Mmmm buttermilk fried chicken?! Can you believe that I've never had that in my life. I'm going to have to try it one day! And your muffins look delicious!

The Food Librarian said...

Those look great....and the buttermilk fried chicken sounds sooooo good!!!