It’s hard to beat the juicy, deliciously rich combination of ground pork sausage and cheese. Take Christmastime sausage balls. Retro as they are, they make even hardcore gourmands forget self-control. And that champion road food, jalapeńo sausage cheese bread, made famous in Louisiana by Bourque’s Supermarket in Port Barre, is another reminder that these unfussy ingredients were born to get together.
Inspired by such flavors, I set out to find a decent sausage cheese muffin I could make ahead and serve to my kids on weekday mornings. Savory muffins are fun to eat, and provide more protein and oomph than the average fruity or sweet one. I couldn’t find a satisfactory recipe out there. Many took shortcuts with cheese soups and biscuit mix, and others weren’t muffins, but were eggs baked with various ingredients. Here’s one I developed to solve the weekday doldrums.
Sausage-cheese muffins
