I Love You Grandma!

I apologize for not posting any new recipes lately. My amazing, sweet and beautiful Grandma passed away recently. Although I miss her so much, I'm happy that we have such a wonderful angel watching over us!

It's only fitting that I post a recipe from my Grandma. There's only one problem. She never wrote anything down! If we wanted to know how she made something, we had to write it down while she made it. Trust me, my Grandma was an awesome cook! Tortillas, mole, cornbread dressing, scones, beans, rice, hot sauce. You name it, she made it...and it was good!! I have no idea what to make of hers. I've tried to make her rice many times and still haven't been able to get it right. Even with her standing next to me, I managed to mess it up. The tortillas didn't taste bad but they looked like anything BUT a tortilla! Back in April, I tried to make her dressing. I made the mistake of using sweet cornbread. Oops! The one time I tried making her mole (years ago), the bottom of the blender came off and most of it ended up on the kitchen floor. The little bit that made it into the pot wasn't bad though. What to make? What to make?

I'm sure I'll think of something of hers to make and share on here. Hopefully she'll be watching over me and guiding me so I don't screw it up. Either that or she'll be laughing her head off watching me try to recreate something that came so easy to her.

Whatever I decide to make, no matter how good it might turn out, it won't have that special "Grandma's touch" to it. Anthony says I make a pretty good pot of pinto beans and can re-fry them pretty well, but they're just "not Grandma's" beans.

What can I say? All I can do is try :)

Yo te quiero mucho Grandma! You behave up there in Heaven! :)

Bacon Muffins

Anthony decided that he wanted some bacon this morning for breakfast. I remembered that I had run across an interesting sounding recipe for bacon muffins. Not the healthiest sounding, I know, but I've never had a bacon muffin. So I thought, what the heck. Now, you would think that there's actual bacon in the recipe. There's not. It uses the bacon grease. Oh healthy police, please don't arrest me!

Anthony cooked the entire package of bacon and I used ALL of the grease from it. The dough was kinda thick and stretchy, if that makes sense. To be honest, I wouldn't call these muffins. Yes, I made them in a muffin tin but they're more like biscuits. Very dry and actually kind of hard. They would be perfect smothered in white gravy served with eggs and hashbrowns :) HAHA!

My interpretation of the recipe:

Bacon Muffins

From: Janie or Jamie

2 c. sifted flour

2 Tbs sugar

4 Tbs baking powder

½ tsp salt

⅓ c bacon juice

1 egg, beaten

1 c. milk

Sift into bowl: flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.

Stir into dry ingredients, egg and milk. Add ¼ c. bacon fat melted. Just before completely blended stir in grease (just enough) to mix.

Spoon into greased muffin tin ⅔ full. 

Bake 20-25 min. at 400°

* I was able to get 12 muffins out of this recipe.

* I didn't spray the muffin tin. I just used muffin liners and they worked fine.

* I baked them for 23 minutes. The toothpick came out clean :)

I hope you enjoy and give this recipe a second chance in your kitchen too.