On English Muffins

 During pregnancy, I generally try to follow the Brewer pregnancy diet, because it's much easier than trying to count grams of protein, calcium and iron!  One of the diet's recommendations is that I eat two eggs each day . . . easy, I love eggs!  Still, five months of only a few different preparations can get a little bit old.  So, I decided that poached eggs on English muffins sounded scrumptious, and set about learning how to make my own English muffins and poach my own eggs!  I've seen my mother do both years ago, but until a few days ago I had never tried either myself.  

So, I found recipes for English muffins in both Joy of Cooking and More With Less Cookbook and ended up following the latter, which was easier to understand.  I did add part whole-wheat flour, though, and I think I was a tad short on yeast.  They came out ok for my first try, but I think I need to keep working on them!  They still don't have all those delightful nooks and crannies like the ones you can buy at the store!

And yesterday morning, I turned to Betty Crocker for help with poaching eggs for the first time.  I thought they were quite delicious (my sweetie thought they were somewhat better than Mushroom Moussaka, but still toward that end of the spectrum!).  Since we have so many homemade English muffins now, I ate poached eggs again today for lunch, and will probably continue doing so for a while!  

While we're talking about muffins, perhaps you'd like a recent picture of our little baking muffin . . . 

22 weeks!