Today's "baking with vegetables" inspiration: A muffin, a real muffin, and decidedly savory, there's not a speck of sugar, even the spices are just salt and pepper, you know, savory. The best? The muffins are studded with tiny cubes of roasted sweet potato and creamy feta. For Weight Watchers, just 3 points (Old Points) or 4 points (PointsPlus)!
What in the world has happened to muffins? Is it just me or have they taken a turn to the too-too sweet and the too-too cake-like?
And okay, so cupcakes are supposed to be airy and cakey and sweet. But there are two-million-bazillion cupcake recipes, each one competing on the Cute Quotient. (I kid you not. Have you seen the baking blogs lately? Talk about CuteCupcakeOverload.) Cupcakes have their place.
But on the other end, the muffin end, how many muffin recipes are of the savory sort? Once upon a time, I did one of those get-to-know-you corporate team-building exercises. One query after another, virtually all the participants ended up on one side of the room, leaving one or sometimes two people feeling awkward and isolated on the other side, wondering what, exactly, they'd said to warrant the separation. Well, that's the savory muffin, lost and friendless at the far end of the cupcake-to-muffin lineup.
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