One personality trait that I have is how incessant I am. I’m still trying to figure out if this is a gain or a flaw on my part. At times it can be both I suppose.
Take for instance, my mom and me. We get these crazy ideas in our heads sometimes, and no matter what we are doing, we must stop to put the idea to life. I distinctly remember a time where we were cleaning/decorating for Christmas, and we decided that a certain item of decor would look great on the mantle. Instead of finishing up and going shopping for it later, we needed it NOW. We dropped everything, house in disarray, to go and find the decoration. Did we find it? Yes. Could we have waited? Absolutely.
Which is why when this morning I saw Jess had made homemade English muffins, I had to make some. Not later today, not a week down the road – I needed to make them NOW! I blame this on my mother.
Imagine my frustration when I saw one must use English muffin tin rings to make English muffins. Who on earth has English muffin rings? Not me! Bound and determined, I went to 4 stores in 1 hour trying to find said rings. I came home empty handed.
I was really bummed, but still feeling incessant. I had to figure out a way to substitute for the rings – muffin tin? No. Small glass Pyrex containers? Ehhh…
What happened next made me upset – really upset. I Googled “English muffin rings” only to find one could use foil in place of the muffin ring.
Seriously? Incessant mixed with a little impatience – nothing like it.
I started by tearing off a foot of foil.
Cut it in half (hot dog style)…
Folded it in half (hot dog style)….
Folded it in half again…
Then, I formed the foil into little rings, making sure to tuck the ends under each other so they wouldn’t fall apart.
Incessant English Muffins (adapted from Hey, That Tastes Good!)
- 1.5 cups gluten free flour mix (Bob’s Red Mill All Purpose)
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. xanthan gum
- 1 T active yeast
- 1 T turbinado sugar
- 1 tsp. olive oil
- 1 1/4 cups plus 1 T hot water (about 110 degrees Fahrenheit)
Directions: Place all dry ingredients (including yeast) into a large mixing bowl. Mix until all ingredients are friends.
Add your hot water and olive oil and mix, mix, mix. I used a whisk for this – it’s more of a “batter” than a dough. This is GOOD!
Grease a baking sheet and line with 6 foil rings. Grease the rings as well with cooking spray.
Pour 1/4 cup batter into each muffin ring, smoothing the top of each one.
Place your baking sheet in a warm area (I used my UNheated oven) for 30 minutes. The dough should double in size.
After dough has risen, take the cookie sheet out of the oven and preheat is to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Bake English muffins for 15 minutes.
After English muffins have cooled for a few minutes, carefully peel away the foil from each individual muffin. Feel free to lick the pieces of foil for crumbs.
Fork the English muffin open an “oooh” and “aaah” at the nooks and crannies – or as the Husband likes to call them: the honeycombs.
Right at this moment, I’m feeling pretty good about being an incessant person.
Because when I popped one of these in my mouth, I actually had to think to myself: “Holy cow, I actually made these?”
I must say I patted myself in the back a couple of times today – for both food and photo purposes.
Incessant, impatient, and egocentric – wow. I’m not making myself look too good here.
If only I could get those characteristics to make the Husband make the bed in the morning…
Question: What is one personality trait you’re proud or not too proud of?
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Victory is yours! lol
I’m stubborn. There was no way I’d be anything but- it comes from my mom and my dad.
This is a gift and a curse.
I am so stubborn – the husband hates it!!
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!! Those look amazing, I need to make those. I am loving your new camera:) I am not too proud about my personality trait of always being late…I didn’t used to be but now I can never be on time!
Oh no!!! I’m not sure if we can be friends anymore – just joking! I’m always early , and the Husband is always late. So together we’re on time!
I love this recipe.. This looks simply good. Have you tried English Muffin pizza? It’s good as well.
I love English muffin pizza! It’s so good!
Congrats on your beautiful english muffins!
I have a fear of making bread from scratch for some reason. I always feel like it won’t set up right or something. But these are inspirational
It’s super easy – and you really can’t screw this one up. You don’t even have to proof the yeast!
Oh my goodness they look perfect!
I am super impressed!
You incessantness (is that a word?) paid off
AAAHHH!! I’ve wanted english muffins for SO long but I cant find any at the grocery store without super shady ingredients!! Obviously I have to make them.
Can I mention how much I love your “hot dog style” references? My favorite teacher from elementary school always used to say that, and “hamburger style” when giving folding instructions.
You know you’re an elementary school teacher when….
You are so funny! How clever are those little rings? Great job!
My husband is the exact same way, I just never knew what to call it until now. Once he gets an idea or task in his mind, he will drop EVERYTHING to do it just that moment. There is one story about this that actually ended our marriage due to his incessant need to move the fridge while I was cooking dinner. Let’s just say a HUGE gash in my brand new kitchen floor didn’t bode so well with a new wife. LoL, but it seems like you incessant aims are much more successful. These muffins look like little pillows of heaven!
Thanks!
I totally want to make these!!
vegan + gf! die and go to heaven!
i grew up on eng muffins but never thought id ever have one again…you have given me hope
way to be incessant. I call it persistent. that’s what i am…almost to a fault!
Ican be the SAME way with some things – especially baking! I have a million and one bookmarked recipes, but nothing will strike my fancy until all of a sudden, I see something on a blog and everything is put on pause so I can go and make whatever it is I saw
And your photos? Looking good!!
Your english muffins look beautiful – I’m glad I could be of some inspiration
A photo compliment from you is possibly the best thing you could have ever given me Jess!
English muffin rings?! Haha…well it looks like they came out perfect without them! Yum!
These look BEYOND amazing..I’m going to have to make them soon!! Slash I just ate dinner and now I’m craving english muffins.
I have the same “flaw” as you – when I get an idea in my head, I drop everything right then and there and HAVE to do it! I view it as more a good thing than a bad thing. I like to say I’m a “go getter”
Those look great! I’ll have to try out your recipe sometime. And the pictures are awesome also
I’m the same way… as soon as I get an idea in my head, it has to happen NOW! I get it from my dad, though.
Awesome…those look amazing!!
Wow, those look delicious and like something I need right now to warm my soul!
I am extremely non-diagnosed OCD. Clean, clean, clean, I feel like that’s all I do. Good and bad trait that I have
Wow those look so good. I really really need to work on my gluten free baking. I had forgotten you were gf too so I need use some of your recipes!
OH MY GOSH!! I am so excited to make these. I have missed english muffins so much! Your brilliant, and I am so glad you are incessant!!
what a great idea w/ the tin foil! i get like you too, where once i have an idea in my head, i HAVE to do it.
Oh my gooooodness. I am going to have to give those a try. They look so good! I absolutely love your blog, girl. Keep the good stuff coming!
Wow – these look amazing! I cannot believe how perfect they look! When I make stuff myself it NEVER looks this perfect!
mmmm…delicious!
Think of it this way..did you happen to pick up or spot any new things on your “hunt?”
Lord knows one trip to Bed Bath and Beyond and I am fully aware that I am lacking so many culinary devices.
I want a mandolin slicer so bad. Anyways…shopping is fun, its your vacay, enjoy it! Imagine if you HAD to find an english muffin tin after work..much less enjoyable. (Because if you are that incessant you would have HAD to have gone there….)
Missy
This is SO true. I got toilet paper on my trip. Does that count?
These look amazing. My bread baking goes as far as quick breads, however I picked up active yeast on a whim the other day and it looks like it will be coming in handy!
Super easy – don’t be afraid of it!
Umm can I be embarrassed for a bit that I never heard of the word incessant before? Moving on! Great job on the english muffins, they look fantastic. Even have the nooks and crannies! Mmmm.
I’m sure you have – Mariah Carey, Always Be My Baby circa 1994?
I attempted to make English muffins once before, but they were a big flop! These look amazing!!
These muffins definitely look worth the effort! I would totally do something similar. But I have to say that my bed is made every morning, 5 minutes after I wake up!
Mine would be too, but I’m never the first one out of it!
And the muffins weren’t much of an effort to tell you the truth!
I am scared of gf and yeast baking. But, this looks so easy. You’ve been bookmarked.
so. not. hard.
Usually GF baking needs either more liquid or more flour – those two contradict each other so much, and I’m not quite sure how it’s one or the other!
Second post i’ve read today about homemade english muffins…That means I need to try to make some asap!
These look delicious! Baking them in the oven would be so much simpler than doing them in the frypan because you can bake them all at once!
I didn’t know english muffins were usually done in the fry pan!
Oh seriously – this is genius! I am so making these when I get home this weekend! One of my characteristics that I’m not too fond of is that I have THE HARDEST time getting out of bed in the mornings. No matter how hard I try, I always hate waking up! I set like 3 alarms and still sleep through them… sheesh!
I’m the exact opposite! Once I wake up, I basically jolt out of bed!
these look so good! and they don’t seem too difficult for my kitchen abilities! — iam VERY incessant too.. VERY!
dang chicha! Those look good! I saw those on Jess’s blog too and really want to make them! Thanks for the extra-extra kick of motivation!
all in a good way though! Loving and kind way!
I’d have to say my worst trait is how easily annoyed I am, especially, most speciaifically my mom and people who dont know when to stop. ya know?
I mean i get along with everyone fine i sometimes want to strangle them
and i totally just noticeed those were GF too! SCORE! I love you!
Celiac twins!! lol
did they taste good? I mean with bob red mill and everything?
They tasted amazing – I couldn’t believe I did it!
I am easily annoyed too, more likely with people I’m close to!
wow! those look amazing! nice work!
I am the same way. My better half is always like why would you go from store to store instead of calling ahead to find the store that has the item you want. This is not something you should say after I have been to several stores in three states (I live in DC) in two hours only to come home empty handed. I’m glad you figured out you could use something you had on hand. The bright side is at least you had tin foil.
My Husband is the same way – I would rather go out searching than sit on the phone for some reason. It feels like more of an adventure!
I happen to share this trait with you…once you get an idea in my head…it’s all I think about until I do whatever it is! I am also very stubborn which can be a good or bad quality depending on the situation, however, most of the time it’s bad…
Oh my God these look amazing. So soft and pillowy and warm and carby and just YUM.
Bad trait? I get really, really, really uptight when I’m stressed. Like, REALLY uptight. It’s not pretty.
im sending you the biggest hug i can over this computer. why? cuz ive been looking for recipes and through all my recipe books to find how to make english muffins. plus i need to find versions that are gluten free so i can enjoy them now… cant find any at the stores around here. you’re the best, bookmarked this and will print it off tonight. woohoo!! <3
Yessss! I’m glad you can enjoy them since you’re now going GF again!
If being incessant means I get to steal English muffin recipes from you then, please, be incessant. These look fabulous. I’ve been meaning to make my own but the fact that I have an entire package of them in my fridge, waiting to be eaten tells me I should hold off till those are gone.
I am SO stubborn and particular and sensitive. Such a curse ha ha.
Way to take charge of those English muffins! I gotta say, i’m real impressed too. They look awesome.
Mmmmm looks great!!!
I am a lot like you! I will drop everything I am doing to go and get something! Otherwise, I will probably never go and get it.
Ooh yum these look good! I’m so impressed with your bread-making skills!
I think I have the exact opposite personality trait – I bookmark a zillion recipes that I want to make, but I take months before I actually make them!
The other thing you can use for rings is empty cans the size of tuna cans, waterchestnuts, any can that is fairly short and about 3 inches across. I popped the top and bottom out of a set and keep them as my English Muffin squad of tins. Cheap and reuses something I was using anyway.
~JB
Oh wow! I have to make these! I love how you told how to fold the foil “hot dog style,” too cute! Definitely know you’re a school teacher!
Looks yummy. Do you think brown rice flour would work? I just went GF and only have brown rice flour.
have you tried using other types of flours for this recipe? I try to stay lower carb and higher fiber so I use a lot of coconut flour! Just wondering if it would work the same? Also, love your website!!!
I’ve never cooked with coconut flour before, but I’ve been wanting to! I’ll have to try it with coconut flour and see how it works!
I’m so glad I found this! I live in Brazil right now and another expat gave me a box of King Arthur english muffin mix. I was so excited, then discovered I needed those rings! I haven’t made them yet because of that! Now, I know I can use foil! Thanks!
Ok, so, I just found this post and my mind was blown over the idea to use foil in place of those stupid english muffin rings! Whoever initially thought of that was a genius, and I’m so happy you figured it out too. I love having homemade english muffins, and I’ve made them a few times, but in the past I’ve used empty tuna fish tins instead of rings (seriously, who owns those?). It’s a hassle to remove the bottom of the tin, and the english muffins don’t come out as well without the bottom of the tin removed. I also feel like the rings aren’t clean enough so if I really think about it I think it’s gross! Anyway, thanks!
Tuna fish cans are pretty ingenious too!
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