CORNBREAD MUFFINS & A SURPRISE TWIST

You love Cornbread Muffins? I do, or just Cornbread in general, yup I do. Cornbread Muffins are very tasty, the basic kinds you find in bake shops, or supermarkets are great for breakfast, and great for dipping into stews, or in Hawaii we love cornbread with Portuguese Beans Soup, it's a perfect pairing with the savory flavors coming from the stewed ham hocks, potatoes, tomatoes, herbs and spices, the richness, and oh the Portuguese Sausage chunks that is in there, and that fresh cornbread goes together with it like Simon and Garfunkel, Batman and Robin, Obama and what's his name, Bush and Quayle. You get the picture. So in this bloggy post, I'll give you a different twist on Cornbread Muffins, we'll make a basic recipe and add in some awesome stuff, it'll be a savory muffin for sure, it'll be so Yay Yay that you'll eat this non stop, you'll not eat only one my cornbread junky friends, for certain, I'm telling you, you won't eat just one. Okay here we go, the basic cornbread muffin recipe.

BASIC CORNBREAD MUFFIN MIX

1 1/2 c. of fat free buttermilk
1/4 c. safflower oil
1 egg large organic beaten
1 c. A.P. flour
3/4 c. yellow cornmeal
1 tbsp. raw brown sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. sea salt
1/8 tsp. chili powder
4 oz. chopped Portuguese Sausage
3 tbsp. minced sweet Maui onion
Pam cooking spray

PREP

1. Preheat oven to 400 deg.
2. Combine the first 3 ingredients well
3. Mix the A.P. flour really well with the yellow cornmeal, raw brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, sea salt, chili powder, making a well in the center of the mixture. Stir in the milk mixture until moist.
4. Stir in 1/2 cup of the Portuguese sausage, and 2 tablespoons of minced onions. Spoon into 12 muffin cups, and then sprinkle the remaining Portuguese sausage, and remaining minced onions over every muffin.

Bake for about 12 to 14 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when you stick it in the center of each muffin. Remove, let cool on a wire rack, enjoy it for breakfast or lunch or whenever.