Spinach, feta, thyme & potato muffins

Things are hotting up here at Fern & Olive. 

By that I mean a number of things:  ~ Our fridge broke and keeping our food cold was becoming a pain, running up the road to the neighbours and swopping round ice blocks. But I finally managed to secure the loan of a fridge in exchange for some chocolate & raspberry brownies, things are cool again.

  

Our own fridge in case you are interested, is going to be fixed by the marvellous  Alan Greenhalgh  who can fix anything! But the Beko parts take blooming ages to arrive. In the mean time I am trying to win some extra fridges on Freecycle, to put in the garage because of the imminent summer catering jobs that I have on. Exciting!! 

But then my camera broke too!!!

Arrggg......... everything is great but everything is falling apart at the same time! 

So after a fair bit of sweary shouting and possibly waking the baby next door I just photographed this weeks blog on my phone and with Vinces (aged 7) camera and took the big camera to the camera shop.  The camera professional took one look at it, and I do mean just a look, and the camera magically started working again!

Anyway to the food ~ this weeks recipe is inspired by  'Spinach & Feta'  one of my all time favourite food couples.

This recipe makes 6/7

You will need:

125g plain flour                                                                                               30p

1 tsp baking powder                                                                                         10p

1/2 tsp bicarbinate of soda                                                                                  2p

salt & pepper                                                                                                     3p

1 egg                                                                                                              34p

2 tbsp olive oil                                                                                                 20p

125g yoghurt                                                                                                   55p

50g feta cheese                                                                                                90p

50g wilted spinach   (100g bag makes 50g of wilted and squeezed dry spinach)      60p
100g potatoes ~ cooked and chopped                                                                 14p

some sprigs of thyme                                                               free from the garden!

TOTAL                                                                                                         £3.18

Muffin cases or grease proof paper and a muffin tin.

Put the oven on, Gas 6 ~ 200c

In a bowl mix the dry ingredients. Whisk together the egg, oil and yoghurt then pour and fold into the flour mixture.

Wilt the spinach (see my Little Pies recipe for this if you need to) and chop.

Chop the cheese and potatoes into small chunks, and finely chop the thyme.

The flowers I kept aside for decoration but then forgot to use them!

 Fold in to the mix.

I had no muffin cases so I made my own from grease proof paper  16 x 16cm ish.

Shape the paper into the tins before carefully spooning in the mixture.

Bake for 18 ~ 20 minutes until golden brown.

And there you have it.

Delicious!  fresh from the oven with butter OR  I made a sweet chilli sauce to have mine for which I used my  Beau friends scrummy chilli jam. I just added a spoon of olive oil and a spoon of red wine vinegar to 2 spoons of chilli jam and stirred.  Extra delicious!