Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'
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Yeah, the casting call for the gigantic man-eating leeches must've gone out to my former cow-orkers too.
Narnia and Kong both open here today. Narnia looks like "NAPNIA" in Greek, which amuses me. I am off to case the new cinemas at The Mall - I hear they even have parking!
Da Vinci Code trailer. You know, as much as I hate the story, Paul Bettany is beating himself...I wonder if that's enough of a pull...
Just about every English muffin recipe I've seen has them cooked on a griddle.
I have to admit that I only checked for crumpet recipes before posting and it's been a while since I read an English muffin recipe - it seems I remembered the cooking method wrongly.
In that case, I'll say the difference is that crumpets are made like pancakes from a thin batter, raised by egg and (usually) baking powder, while English muffins are made from yeast-raised bread dough. They certainly have very different textures - I find untoasted crumpets quite rubbery.
Untoasted crumpets are slightly grosser than untoasted English muffins. Yet both of them, toasted? So. Good.
If you're a serious butter whore, English muffins may be preferable because they have a bit of a crust, so whatever butter you put on them stays on them, whereas it tends to run right through the crumpet and leave you with an admittedly tasty crumpet and then, after it's done, a sad little crumpet-shaped circle of melted butter on your plate that melted straight through and fell out the bottom and now it's all wasted. Unless you can lick it off the plate when nobody's looking. You, I mean. I would never do such a thing. t /big giant fibber
Mmmm... butter.
Sadly, here at work I have no crumpets, muffins or butter. Although there is a toaster. I think I have a plan.
Well, I can't get those silly DaVinci code trailers to work for me at any size.
The texture of crumpets (toasted or un-) grosses me out. I can't explain it, except that it feels like I'm eating a human lip, or something.
it feels like I'm eating a human lip
I love this description! And despite my crumpet-love, I can see where you're coming from on the texture issue.
But human lip with lemon curd is SO GOOD!
I have been known to bite a lip or two in my day, but I don't chew and swallow them. Plus, if I'm biting a lip, I expect it to feel like a lip.
Bread products, on the other hand? Should NOT FEEL LIKE LIP.