Here’s what I think: Screw that chicken-egg question. Instead, try asking:
How can a chicken be made outside of an (egg) shell?
Huh?! You must be thinking that I have completely lost my marbles. But before you judge, I implore you to watch this 3:17 minute YouTube video. I bet that this will blow your mind!
Then again, perhaps you already knew that already! Still. Freaky, cool eh!
Not that Spud has not been asking about the chicken-egg question already and she really has been mulling over this question for several months now (off and on). When she does ask again, she’s got this look on her face as if she’s been painstakingly thinking about it, wanting a clear and definite answer.
Unfortunately, there are some things in life that just don’t have any concrete answers. I think I’m going to show her this video and go confuse the crap out of her.
How is this even possible – cheeseburgers and muffins? Or rather, cheeseburgers in the form of muffins; in mini, bite-sized forms at that.
You know how eating whopper-sized burgers would always end up in a messy affair, yes? But with these mini cheeseburger muffins, I assure you making a mess is the last thing you’d have to worry about.
No messy assembled vegetables, no rogue slices of onions and no dripping sauces.
Each piece fits in your hand perfectly with hardly any greaseHmmm…there should be more gooey cheese in there!
Nothing too difficult too. Just ground meat drenched in chipotle peppers, gooey cheese and a few other condiments to go along with it. Mix them all together, put them in muffin trays and pop them in the oven.
So here we go. Only gorgeous goodness for this week’s madness!
Chipotle Peppers Mini Cheeseburger Muffins
2016-07-28 22:41:51
Serves 4
Easy to make mini cheeseburger muffins for snacking or served for parties at home.
Enough cheddar & mozzarella cheese for fillings, cubed
Pickles (optional)
Chilli Sauce orTomato Ketchup
Instructions
Pre-heat oven to 180 degree celsius. Spray the muffin trays with baking spray
Heat up a pan with 1-2 tspn of butter. Saute the onions till translucent and then brown the minced beef
Add in the chipotle peppers. Stir well. Cook on low till the liquid from the beef in the pan dries up. Turn off the fire and set aside to cool
In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and cumin powder.
Then add in milk, egg, fried shallots, parsely and spring onions into the dry ingredients in (5).
Stir in the shredded cheese and the cooked meat in chipotle peppers. Mix well. You'll get a nice, thick, liquidy batter filled with meat.
Pour the liquid into the muffin trays, just enough to cover half of each well
Top with the cubed cheeses on top of that, then cover with the more batter.
Repeat till all the batter and cheeses are used up.
Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes.
Serve with pickles, Chilli Sauce or Tomato Ketchup
Notes
The use of fried shallots was my addition to give the recipe a little twist. Feel free to omit it if you can't find any but I do find that it adds on to the overall flavour.
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They make pretty darn good snacks, too!
Plus, if you are like me who generally does not like to eat burgers and I know some kids like that as well (both our kids don’t fancy burgers), this is a good way to convert them.
For those at home, enjoy! For the foodies who are about to party, I’m bringing these over to #FiestaFriday and #FoodieFriday
When I read the title of the post from A Momma’s View, I thought she was going to touch upon trees, nature and/or something along the line of global warming. Complemented by the image below, it could easily be that, but it wasn’t any of those.
Instead, Sandra touched upon something that’s a little closer to my state of being: Sometimes not being able to see any real solutions and feeling numb, having been so caught up in issues such that “you can’t’ see the forest for the trees”
As I stared at the image before continuing to read the rest of the post, 2 perspectives conjured up in my head:
Perspective #1:
Breathing in waves and waves of fresh air, and each breath gives me a new vision of the possibilities that could emerge from the narrow gaps in between the trees.
Outcome: Uplifted, refreshing, purposeful.
Perspective #2:
Getting so low with each and every barren-looking woods, fearful by the vastness of the forest and utterly lost from the many directional gaps in between the trees of which way to go.
Outcome: Fearful, dejected, insecure
Reading on, she quoted a feeling that had stirred within me in the last few days :
“I know how it feels. I know how it feels when you are well, when life is good, when you are happy, when everything goes according to your plans.I also know how it can make you feel when things don’t go smoothly.
One other quote accompanied the prose at the end of it; as if reading my mind of what I thought earlier about perspectives.
For most times, things have mainly gone according to plan, albeit in a haphazard way sometimes. Yet, despite the swirls, bumps and humps, we got to the general direction where wanted to be. And, when life is generally good and happy, Perspective #1 comes into play.
Credit: Google Image
On the other, when everything seemingly almost going to shites, Perspective #2 presents itself quite gallantly. Then you feel like things which you have built and hope for just came crashing down, with no solutions or end in sight: That was me two weeks ago.
Until earlier this week, I did nothing about it except letting that uneasy feeling eat me up after a couple of emails that were completely ignored. I figured I got nothing to lose this time – I emailed (again), I called, I dropped a Watsapp message.
With my last text message, I immediately reframed my perspectives of gloom and doom and thinking that everything was about me to: if the contacts in question continue to ignore all the possible means of me getting in touch as I was expected to, then the action (or non-action) reflected more about the individuals than about me.
Just like that, the things I was looking at changed. I relaxed, I let go.
A day and a half later, the response of simple acknowledgement I have been waiting for came through.
Naturally, it was not all the gloom and doom paranoia I had in my head and even if it was, the reframing I did was probably the most powerful exercise I could have done to save myself from my own toxicity.
The reframing of the mind is a powerful thing. What have you reframed recently?
