Good muffins
Recipe is an awfully strange word. I always want to put an extra i in before the final e, thus: recipie. I actually went to dictionary.com to check it just now. It's much too phonetically pronounced to be English.
Anyway. I made some new muffins the other day. I'll show you my photo but I'm just going to link out to the recipe, since it was a totally random choice rather than something I made up or adapted. I had ricotta to use up, and felt like humouring Monkey (for some reason) who asked for chocolate muffins (hmm, maybe it was the chocolate), so I did a quick search and came up with these: Chocolate Ricotta Muffins from Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Cafe. The picture didn't look very chocolately, but it was nice and simple and I had everything it called for so I went ahead.
And got these delicious articles. They're almost like brownie muffins, they're so densely chocolatey, and they freeze and reheat perfectly. I would go so far as to say you should procure yourself some ricotta to use up (maybe by making that stuffed-pancake recipe; I think that's where mine was from) just to make them.
Since Mabel was wide awake reading a book to me from 3.14 to 4.15 this morning, and only fell back to sleep at 5.00, by which time a thunderstorm was in full flow, I think I'll leave it at that for today.
posted by Maud @ 1:47 PM
9 Comments
Links to this post
9 Comments:
Your comments form keeps kicking me to a main Blogger page for some reason. I'll try one more time...
You had me at "brownie muffins." Really you had me at "ricotta." Now I shall go research the etymology of "recipe."
I was going to say that maybe my comments were overwhelmed, because I've had three different comments on different posts this afternoon... but it should probably be well able cope with that huge amount of traffic.
Anyway, glad it worked that time. Let me know what you find out about "recipe". (Could do it myself, but when I have flunkies who offer to do it for me.... I mean, lovely, loyal readers.) :)
They sound fabulous. I feel compelled to try them, as with ricotta and chocolate I see nothing not to like..
They are just as yummy as (Not) Maud claims, even reheated after freezing.
these look delicious! but more importantly, hope you get some good sleep soon. I feel your pain. Oscar wasn't up, but I was - for two hours in the middle of the night. Little is crueler than watching your baby sleep. cute at first, and then infuriating. of course as I drifted off he decided it was time for a marathon nursing session. guess all that sleeping made him want to start growing. [groan.] all a very long-winded way of saying, I wish Mabel would enter a deep sleep nap coma for you today.
My grandmother pronounced "recipe" more like "re-seep" to the point that we occasionally thought she was saying "receipt".
I think - maybe Bethany will back me up on this - that "recipe" and "receipt" are etymologically related, in fact. I seem to remember seeing "receipt" in old-fashioned books. So maybe she was saying it.
I think you're right. In fact I believe some of my great-grandmother's handwritten things spell it that way. Certainly a receipt and a recipe area list of things, so perhaps that's the connection. Maybe?
Apparently it's also related to the pharmacist's abbreviation Rx.
Aha! The accent on the final e in the French explains why we pronounce it.
I'd never seen the abbreviation Rx till I came to America. Either pharmacists don't use it at home, or they keep it for their own arcane vocabulary and don't introduce it to the general public.
Post a Comment
Say something!
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home