ABC - Cheese-stuffed Crusty Loaves

Happy April Fool's Day!! This month's ABC recipe is no joke: Cheese-stuff Crusty Loaves. As you might know, the ABC bakers are baking recipes from the King Arthur Flour website.

Two cheese-stuff crusty loaves

Although mine looked like beehives filled with liquid cheese (haha), they sure tasted ridiculously good. I filled my loaves with a mixture of Colby Jack and Mozzarella cheese, dried minced onion, garlic powder, dried basil, and some special green olives from Morocco marinated in a spicy Harissa sauce.

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SMS - Goat Cheese, Olive and Thyme Muffins

I can't tell believe this is my second time hosting Sweet Melissa Sundays. Last year, I chose Savory Muffins with caramelized onions from The Sweet Melissa Baking Book, which were a big hit. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to make them again, so for this week, I chose a different variety of savory muffins: Goat Cheese, Olive and Thyme Muffins. My husband is not a big fan of goat cheese, so I used crumbled feta cheese instead. When we went to Morocco a few months ago, we brought back some wonderful olives, so I used some crunchy green olives instead of Kalamata olives. Thyme is not in season right now, so I made due with dried thyme (also from Morocco) instead of the wilted stuff they had at the store. Just remember that when replacing dried herbs for fresh herbs, to cut the amount in half.

Feta cheese, green olive and thyme muffins - who said muffins have to be sweet? :o)