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Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης!
Mother! What can I possibly say about her, that hasn’t been said before me thousands and thousands of times? My grandmother used to say that mother is the child’s golden mattress. It’s true, there is an unbreakable bond between a mother and a child that can be found in no other relationship a person makes in his/her entire life.
Is it the fact that the mother actually gives birth to her child? Or, perhaps that this child grows inside her for nine whole months? Or, maybe that she is the person on whom the child’s entire existence depends for the first five years of its life?
I would say all these are true, plus a very strong genetically driven instinct that makes us long for our mothers and vice versa.
I was watching the other day a TV series on television. It is a lost and found series on which people try to find lost relatives and the cast of the show help them find them. I don’t normally watch it, because I believe they try to exploit human pain and this is something I detest, but that day my son was watching it and so I occasionally watching it as well between cooking and ironing.
The story pretty much a usual one. A mother gave her child for adaption, as she was very young to look after it. The child, the moment he learned that he was adopted, started the search for his mother. There was not a sad story behind it. He lived in a very happy family and his adopted parents gave him all the love in the world, but still he wanted to find his natural mother and create some kind of a relationship. I, then, realized how strong a bond is between a mother and a child, stronger than any other relation anyone makes in a lifetime.
I dedicate this to all the mothers of this world. Judging from my personal experience, I can tell you that raising a child and raising it so as to be a good and useful person in the society is the most difficult task I have ever encountered in my entire life. Every single day I strive to teach him how to survive in this world. Through him I see my own faults and inefficiencies and try to correct them, so as to be a role model for him. I can tell you sometimes this is too difficult for me. But my child is there and I cannot do otherwise than to keep going. My reward is the fact that I watch him grow into a fine person and that makes me really proud.
I made these muffins to show my love and affection to my family and they were just the perfect little thing to accompany a filling and rewarding meal. The original recipe comes from Taste but I changed the heck out of it.
Spinach and Goat Cheese Muffins
Ingredients
25 gr. / 1 tbsp+2 tsp margarine
300 gr. / 11 oz. milk
150 gr. /5 oz. baby spinach, chopped
1 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
70 gr. / 2.5 oz. parmesan
1 egg
160 gr. / 6 oz. goat cheese
50 gr. /2 oz. feta cheese
4 slices of bacon, chopped
1/2 tsp salt and pepper
1 onion, chopped
1 scallion, sliced
3 tbsp fresh dill, chopped
3 tbsp olive oil
8 cherry tomatoes
Instructions
Preheat oven to 175° C/ 350° F.
In a skillet add the olive oil in medium heat.
Throw the onion, the scallion and sauté until they are soft.
Add the spinach and sauté for couple of minutes.
Add the dill and sauté for another one minute.
Pour the milk, add the margarine and whisk until the margarine has melted and the milk is hot.
Add the salt and pepper
Remove from fire.
In a bowl sift all the dry ingredients.
Add the bacon.
Add the parmesan, the egg and the spinach batter.
Crumble the cheese and stir gently to incorporate in the mixture.
Grease an 8-hole muffin pan and fill them with the batter.
Prick several times the cherry tomatoes and place one on the top of each muffin.
Bake for about 20 minutes or until the muffins have risen and cooked through.
Remove from the oven and serve them warm.
- 25 gr. / 1 tbsp+2 tsp margarine
- 300 gr. / 11 oz. milk
- 150 gr. /5 oz. baby spinach, chopped
- 1⅔ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 70 gr. / 2.5 oz. parmesan
- 1 egg
- 160 gr. / 6 oz. goat cheese
- 50 gr. /2 oz. feta cheese
- 4 slices of bacon, chopped
- ½ tsp salt and pepper
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 scallion, sliced
- 3 tbsp fresh dill, chopped
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 8 cherry tomatoes
- Preheat oven to 175° C/ 350° F.
- In a skillet add the olive oil in medium heat.
- Throw the onion, the scallion and sauté until they are soft.
- Add the spinach and sauté for couple of minutes.
- Add the dill and sauté for another one minute.
- Pour the milk, add the margarine and whisk until the margarine has melted and the milk is hot.
- Add salt and pepper.
- Remove from fire.
- In a bowl sift all the dry ingredients.
- Add the bacon.
- Add the parmesan, the egg and the spinach batter.
- Crumble the cheese and stir gently to incorporate in the mixture.
- Grease an 8-hole muffin pan and fill them with the batter.
- Prick several times the cherry tomatoes and place one on the top of each muffin.
- Bake for about 20 minutes or until the muffins have risen and cooked through.
- Remove from the oven and serve them warm.
- 25 γρ. μαργαρίνη
- 300 γρ. γάλα
- 150 γρ. σπανάκι, ψιλοκομμένο
- 1⅔ φλ. αλεύρι για όλες τις χρήσεις
- 1 κ.σ. μπέικιν πάουντερ
- 1 κ.γ. μαγειρική σόδα
- 70 γρ. Παρμεζάνα τριμμένη
- 1 αυγό
- 160 γρ. κατσικίσιο τυρί
- 50 γρ. τυρί φέτα
- 4 φέτες μπέικον, ψιλοκομμένες
- ½ κ.γ. αλάτι και πιπέρι
- 1 κρεμμύδι, ψιλοκομμένο
- 1 κρεμμυδάκι φρέσκο, κομμένο σε φέτες
- 3 κ.σ. άνηθο φρέσκο, ψιλοκομμένο
- 3 κ.σ. ελαιόλαδο
- 8 ντοματίνια
- Προθερμένετε το φούρνο στους 175° C.
- Σε μια κατσαρόλα βάλτε το ελαιόλαδο σε μέτρια φωτιά.
- Ρίξτε το κρεμμύδι, το κρεμμυδάκι και σοτάρετε μέχρι να μαλακώσουν.
- Προσθέστε το σπανάκι και σωτάρετε για μερικά λεπτά.
- Προσθέστε τον άνηθο και σοτάρετε για άλλο ένα λεπτό.
- Ρίξτε το γάλα, προσθέστε τη μαργαρίνη και ανακατέψτε μέχρι η μαργαρίνη να λιώσει και το γάλα να ζεσταθεί καλά.
- Προσθέστε το αλάτι και το πιπέρι.
- Βγάλτε από τη φωτιά.
- Σε ένα μπολ, κοσκινίστε όλα τα στεγνά συστατικά.
- Προσθέστε το μπέικον.
- Προσθέστε την παρμεζάνα, το αυγό και το σπανάκι και ανακατέψτε.
- Τρίψτε το τυρί με τα χέρια και ανακατέψτε απαλά να ενσωματωθεί στο μίγμα.
- Λαδώστε ένα ταψί για 8 μάφινς και γεμίστε τις με το μείγμα.
- Τρυπήστε αρκετές φορές τα τοματίνια και τοποθετήστε ένα στην κορυφή κάθε μάφιν.
- Ψήστε για περίπου 20 λεπτά ή μέχρις ότου τα μάφινς να έχουν πάρει όγκο και να έχουν ψηθεί.
- Βγάλτε από το φούρνο και σερβίρετέ τα ζεστά.