Nun's Puffs and the migraine that wouldn't die!

i wanted to have some history or trivia about the name of the puffs that i made, but instead i spent last night enjoying a glass of wine while watching some tv and then this morning, i spent several hours in bed trying to sleep off my migraine. the sleeping 4 additional hours after taking stephen to school really did seem to do the trick and i'm feeling much better. i've had a migraine for the last 2-3 days and while it was manageable for the first couple days, this morning the throbbing in my head nearly knocked me over. so i brokedown and took the powerful prescription pill i have (i save them for real emergencies, like today) and climbed back into bed. thankfully jordan was behaving and luke was fine with her playing while he worked. so, now after my rest i'm back to blogging and normal life...more laundry and baking to get to today!

last night i baked something called nun's pufffs from the better homes & gardens cookbook. the recipe was very simple with only about 5 ingredients, it was the first time i ever had to cook the dough before baking it. i followed the recipe as it was written, melting the butter, adding the milk & flour until the dough formed a ball, then adding each egg one at a time stirring vigoursly with each addition.  side note: stirring dough with a wooden spoon for 4-5 minutes is really a good workout for the stirring arm! so once the eggs were all mixed in i used my handy-dandy scooping tool (it's actually called a disher, but i like handy-dandy scoop) to measure out the dough into the heavily greased muffin tin, sprinkled on some sugar, popped them in the oven for the desired time and started working on dinner. 

the puffs came out of the oven after about 25 minutes, just in time to enjoy with our dinner of fish sticks, rice, & corn (i know, we're so "fancy" with our fish sticks). this time we all tried the puffs, the kids even had their's with honey which is what the book suggests having them with. they were a bit doughy and really, not very good...neither of the kids finished there's and luke & i just had one each. i did save the remaining ones to try today with the hope that they'll be better a day later...i haven't tried them yet, but will at some point.

 

they did puff up quite nicely and i was very surprised about that, the taste just seemed lacking. i was glad that i tried something new though so in the end it worked out just fine. tonight i think i'll try some cheese muffins to go with dinner and maybe some brownies from a box (i can't always make everything from scratch!)