Recently I've been off from work due to some health concerns that are slowly sorting themselves out, including a collapsed left lung. One of the things that has come out of it all is that my wife and I have decided to start Weight Watchers since it has worked for some of our friends and family before.
Part of the program involves counting points values that are assigned to the foods we eat. Right now it isn't much of a problem since we both have enough points to essentially cover our normal eating habits. As we go along and our point allotments drop, we need to be looking for ways to control portions a little better. So why not start looking now?
The first thing that came to mind was to try portioning English muffins since the ones we buy in the store are larger than the suggested serving in the plan's tracking software. Which means that they cost more points. Lately I've been experimenting with baking some different breads so I thought, why not make some English muffins.
I used this recipe: http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/6947/english-muffins
It worked out quite well, I didn't need to add all of the flour that it called for, leaving out half of a cup and I also ended up having to knead it by hand since the stand mixer wasn't bringing it together enough.
When I tooled it out, I ended up getting 27 muffins from the dough instead of the 18 that it called for and figured them to be worth 3 points each which is on par with the suggested serving from Weight Watchers.
Next go around though I may put a cookie sheet over the rounds as they rise to try and keep them from getting too tall next time.
The trickiest part was having to cook them on a griddle over "medium heat". I ended up burning the first side of half the batch a little but rolling it back to 250 F seemed to take care of that problem.
That's it for now, until next time.
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