Adventures with Butter

This weekend's recipe experiments were unintentionally butter-heavy, but that's almost never a bad thing in my book. First on the menu was a recipe shared by N.'s friend on Google Buzz for Egg-in-a-Hole Grilled Cheese Sandwiches. I was introduced to egg-in-a-hole by my classmate Michael while studying abroad in England, and I was instantly in love. The simplicity! The gratuitous butter! And the best part, cutting holes in bread with a drinking glass! But why oh why had I never thought of combining this masterpiece of breakfastry with a grilled cheese?? Below are photos of our toasty sandwich success. The only things I would change are toasting the bread a bit more before adding the egg, and peppering the egg while cooking. The little circles in the first photo are the bread circles which were made into tiny grilled cheese sandwiches for mid-cooking snacking. Yum.







My other attempted recipe did not go as well. Although it was edible, I'd like to try it again to see if what I think went wrong is what actually went wrong. I found a list of muffins, scones and biscuits on one of my favorite food blogs, The Kitchn, and one particular recipe jumped out at me because it had few ingredients and the steps seemed fairly straightforward. Unfortunately, I was trying to use up some leftover cake flour, and though I followed the box's directions for changing the measurement for use in non-cake flour recipes, something didn't quite work out. When it came time to move my biscuit strips into the pan, the batter was so wet and soupy that all I could was scoop it in as one big blob and try to re-cut strips before it went into the oven. The result was pretty much was I had been going for, basic buttery biscuits, but the texture was a little chewy. I'd like to try this one again with all-purpose flour and see if I can achieve true breadsticks.



Happy Sunday night! I hope you all had pleasant weekends and are ready to face another Monday.