To any of you who, like me, enjoy breaking out one of those blue boxes of cornbread muffin mix to accompany a nice homemade dinner: After you try this recipe, you will never feel the need to buy another box of mix again. I was surfing the web for a cornbread muffin recipe and somehow ended up with another nugget from the Neelys. These cornbread muffins are just as easy as fixing up the boxed muffins, and are easily more delicious:

Honey Cornbread Muffins

I actually made these as part of Mario’s birthday dinner Pt. 1, and he had a hard time believing they were made from scratch. These came out moist but still a tad crumbly with a kiss of honey goodness.
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This weekend I faced one of my culinary fears: Making bread. Bread making has always seemed like it was super difficult and required some measure of skill that I did not possess. However, I proved myself wrong by making these delicious looking cheese buns I found on The Pink Peppercorn‘s food blog:

Cheese Bun

Cheese Bun

The recipe is for a basic dough (PP says she actually usually uses it for pizza dough) which is then kind of cinnamon-rolled with aged white cheddar and baked. Not only was the process easier than I expected, but they tasted great too.
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