Kitchen Adventures 1 1/2: Bacon Avocado Muffins

  There aren't many things I know I do well - sure I know my internet memes, can talk Dr. Who forever and I can sing you a song by Sondheim, Gershwin and Cole Porter - but I'm talking applicable skills. I can sew on a button, but despite the recurring purchases of sewing/knitting materials I don't think I'm ever going to produce an actual garment any time soon. One thing, however, I would like to say I do well is food.  I love food. Really, all I ever actually think about is food. I could talk about food forever (those who know me I wil.) I love cooking food, eating food, everything there is about food.

So now I would like to talk about food.

First,  a little background...

Since we moved into our new apartment I would sit and dream about the kinds of food I could make in our new awesome, awesome kitchen.
Also since then I keep remembering that I live with two people:

My Mother - who is forever on a diet and eats portions I swear a mouse couldn't survive on.

My Father - who doesn't understand why I want to "bother" cooking when we could just go out or order in (now that we live somewhere where you can go out or order in.)  His response when I say "would you eat this is I made it?" is always "why trouble yourself?"

These two (three?) facts in combination made me a very sad person.

But recently I decided to just start cooking for myself. Its something I enjoy doing, so I'm going to just go ahead and make stuff. I've built up a following of some rather eager taste testers. Someone'll eat it.
So far I've made quite a few things, mostly for myself or  out of curiosity or necessity.

If you call a craving for Bialys a "necessity." I certainly do.