"I brought some muffins!" the VP said as he arrived at the security desk, placing the muffins down.
While enjoyable in their way, both are inferior dishes Making hollandaise strikes the fear of Carême into even the most accomplished home cook, and how often do you have the ingredients (pristine fresh eggs, soft muffins) in, when the mood takes you?
I could no more have estimated the number of calories in my housemate's homemade muffins than I could the population of Copenhagen (now I know the answer to both is 569,557).
There is nothing worse than soggy muffins or a plate swimming in watery dregs because some gormless chef, has chucked wet eggs on the plate.
You know it consists of muffins with ham, poached eggs and hollandaise.
Yet, in their density, robustness and absorbency, semolina-dusted English muffins are quite clearly the most practical base for all that hollandaise and (unless something has gone disastrously wrong), egg yolk.
So, as you seat yourself for breakfast muffins, take the time to broach the subjects of jamming with Jimi Hendrix, working at Epic Records, overseeing the soundtrack for the film Rock Star and having 25 gold and platinum records.
In the last 24 hours alone I have bought muffins, a second-class single to Colchester, two quality newspapers, a dish of luxury nuts and a garage punk CD called Back to the Grave 9. I now live beyond my wildest dreams, although admittedly, until recently, my wildest dreams involved one day owning a table.
("I am eating chocolate muffins at work because they are not too heavy," says another).
And there are those who worry that appointing or electing women to prominent positions will cause extremists and cultural conservatives to feel even more disaffected.At the Minhaj-Ul-Quran mosque, Khadijah Atkinson and others eat chocolate muffins as they discuss the role of women in Islam.
He made sure that all muffins served on his premises had exactly ten blueberries in them.
