'Ham' and Egg Muffins

Morning food fans,

In an unexpected twist, rather than being asleep or pretending to be asleep, I've just been up cooking breakfast from scratch. Not for myself as I'm sure you would guess from the list of ingredients, but I did all the cooking, so it still counts.

So lets take a look at the recipe

Okay, alarm bells should be going off straight away here, because this is clearly from the Slimming World website.

Also, if I can draw your attention to the 2 main ingredients. Small chestnut mushrooms and lean smoked ham. We don't have either of these things in the house. We do have field mushrooms though, so I can work with that. However Katie selected this to substitute for the ham:

For those of you fortunate enough to have avoided this monstrosity  I can reveal that this is what Quorn bacon looks like. By sheer coincidence, it is also what used odor eaters look and smell like.

To try and make these muffins a bit more interesting (i.e. to actually taste of something) I added a few more ingredients. Onions, tomatoes and peppers all went in. I already wasn't going to eat them, so I might as well use up as much of the other things I don't like in there as well. If we had any coconut or fish in the house, that would have gone in too!

To be fair, this isn't even slightly complicated, so I just cut it all up and stuck it in a pan

As you can see, I've not quite mastered the art of cutting things finely. But as far as I'm concerned, if it fits in the pan, it's small enough.

Next up was getting it into the muffin tray, and adding the eggs and milk:

I must admit, as this stage I was thinking it was an absolute doddle this cooking lark. Then I tried to pick up this very flimsy plastic case and pissed muffin juice all over myself and the floor.

I managed to rescue most of it, and 30 minutes later, they came out looking like this:

They were more like mini quiches than muffins, but Kate was suitably impressed and I didn't have to eat any, so we are calling that a win/win