Good evening! Hope you are all well. I've been thinking about the past few weeks, a few lessons learned, and some wins I wanted to share, and while I bake a cake that was ordered, I wanted to get them down for you. LOSSES: First we will discuss muffins, and my as yet to have figured out recipe exchanges: There was an apple oat muffin recipe I tried to replace some of the ingredients and ended up with dry crumbly nearly tasteless muffins. Really they were better used as door stops. Substitutions included: wheat flour for white, turbinado sugar plus some honey for white and brown sugar. I think these things would have been better had I added some applesauce or some greek yogurt perhaps. What do you think? Anyway I tried to make the best of it and created a bread pudding out of it. That too was dry but I found that putting maple syrup over it was pretty good. Next we will talk Chorizo and how I really don't quite understand the need for vinegar? So I had this idea th