Breakfast

This is kind of a goofy success story, but a success story none the less. 

At work we needed to find some way to drum up revenue and we had tried doing one a month buffet lunches, great at first expensive in the end, a lose overall.  so this year i decided to try breakfast instead since eggs are the single most profitable item a restaurant can sell.  so we went out and bought a double belgium waffle maker and a muffin tin that makes 6 oz muffins.  now i am a culinarian, not a baker my assistant is more the baker and worked for years at cracker barrel (a southern breakfst chain).  however 6 weeks ago she had to go on leave becuase she broke a bone in her foot and it died so she had to have surgery on it.  so i was stuck trying to figure out how to make a breakfast menu that would satisfy men and women and be profitable. 

So i found a waffle recipe that is simple and i could make, one down!

I came up with a couple cool omelets, two down!

Then i got to the muffins.  this scared me to death!!!  i found a recipe for an orange cranberry muffin.  I LOVE orange cranberry anything!!!  well i made it and when i was adding the wet ingredients to the dry i realized that i had doubled the flour but nothing else, i was so mad!!!  they turned out to be good scones but crappy muffins.  so a week later i tried again, this time bran muffins.  they turned out ok, but the molasses flavor was way too strong and the recipe did not make nearly as many as i had hoped for.  so a few days later i tried to make blueberry and this time i tripled the recipe to make sure i made a dozen.  well the resulting muffins were INSANELY good!!!  but this time i made way too many.  turns out my bran muffin recipe says it makes a dozen 99g muffins as did the blueberry but the total mass of the bran was like a third of the blueberry, TYPO!!! but the day i made those muffins i made a sweetened vanilla butter to go with them and my boss sent me an email later saying they were the best muffins he had EVER tasted!!!  i was in shock.  then he calls and tells me his parents are flying in from australia today and he wanted 4 for their afternoon tea!! i was thrilled!!! so i guess this culinarian actually can bake a bit, lets hope i can keep it up!!!

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