
Are these muffins or are they cupcakes? I’m not sure. Let’s say they’re a cakey muffin that keeps well and gets stickier as time goes on. It is such a quick recipe with a great reward in terms of taste and texture and easy enough to get the kids helping with too.
We have decided that they can take quite big chunks of chocolate in them, but a mixture of chunks and chips is nice. I’m thinking they could take a filling too, but haven’t decided which direction to go with on it. Hmmm. These are so nice – do give them a go.
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Moist, sticky, sweet but fiery pieces of succulent chicken, nestling with languid red onion and red pepper, bathed in sour cream and wrapped in the warm blanket of a tortilla. The Fajitas. Surely one of the finest English recipes ever to take the Americas by storm.
Shakespeare and Dickens both make reference to this inventive dish. The tragedy is that no one recognises its true English origins*. Not until now, anyway.
So, fair maidens and Noblemen, this way for the receipt for Fajitas.
* None of this is true.
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