My Poor Attempt at Homemade Biscuits

I grew up eating biscuits from the can and occasionally my dad would make "homemade" biscuits but they were made with Bisquick. I've been forgetting to grab some canned biscuits at the grocery store. This morning, Dane was begging for biscuits so I decided to try making them from scratch…..

The original recipe can be found here but I will post it:


Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour 
1 teaspoon sugar 
1 tablespoon baking powder 
1 teaspoon salt 
8 tablespoons butter, cubed (I softened and didn't see the cubing step)
3/4 cup milk

Directions:

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

In a large bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together. Cut butter into mixture until it begins to look like cornmeal. This is when I realized my pastry blender is in Louisiana but a fork worked just fine.

Make a well with flour mixture and slowly add milk into the middle. Knead dough with your fingers and add milk when necessary. I added all of the milk slowly, even though it looked like I should have stopped after 1/2 cup or so. Roll out dough onto a lightly floured surface and roll out to desired thickness. There was no rolling with my glob of goo. Cut with small biscuit cutter. This step was also omitted for obvious reasons. I dropped globs onto the pan.

Butter bottom of skillet and place biscuits in pan. Bake for 12 minutes or until golden brown. Mine didn't exactly get golden. The bottoms were getting dark so I took them out of the oven.

I'm not sure what went wrong with mine but they looked nothing like Paula's.

 Even though my biscuits were lumpy and weren't golden brown, they were simply delicious! I will give them another try in days to come and will hopefully perfect them!

The kids said they were the BEST biscuits that they ever had. Works for me!

The South and The North

Well, a few weeks ago my family and I made the 1000 mile move from Southwest Louisiana to the suburbs of Chicago! It still sounds strange!

I've jotted down some of my thoughts and discoveries:

• Basements! My kids love the basements that almost every house has (by the way, a house without a basement is called a "slabber")
• Although I have yet to have tried a real deep dish pizza, the ones that I've tried are amazing! I'm sure that from now on I will make a face when offered Pizza Hut pizza ;)
• I do not like the death total tracker on the highway.
• I've always heard of "southern hospitality" but people up here are very welcoming also! 
• The weather has been beautiful! It's great to work an hour on my hair and knowing that it isn't a waste of time once I step outside.
• Spiders are to Illinois as snakes are to Louisiana.
• My door is the only one in this sub-division with a burlap/deco-mesh wreath.
• School doesn't start until… ready?…. 8:45!! 
• I say "roof" (as in "boo"). They say "roof" (as in "took"). "Twas The Night Before Christmas" makes a little more sense now.
• There isn't a church on every other block here.
• People on bicycles wear helmets but people on motorcycles do not (for the most part).
• I'm curious to see if my kids will wear black and gold or orange and blue on October 6th.
• Car-line takes 15 minutes! I love the idea but if it was applied back home, somebody would get run over.
• I almost wish we would have gotten a home in a bus-zone so I could hibernate this winter.
• I hope I don't offend people when I say "ma'am" and "sir".
• College football isn't all that popular here. Eric seems to think it's because there aren't any good teams to cheer for. 
• Even though alligator bites, etouffee, or sauce piquante aren't on the menu, the food here is VERY good!
• Gracie now says "cAARRR" instead of "car".

Disclaimer: this is not meant to offend the cajuns or the yankees.