We drove 28 straight hours and have arrived safely on the West Coast. Izzy would not have been too pleased about her cramped quarters on the back bench of the Mazda were it not for these tasty treats. Seattle coffee and bulldog biscotti—not too bad for humans, either! Bulldog Biscotti Recipe from Brewmaster Peter 4 […]
Category: Biscuits
Grandma’s Sweet Potato Biscuits
Grandma’s Sweet Potato Biscuits As remembered by Lila’s granddaughter Holly Alisha Carraway Warren There is a photograph of Lila rolling dough with flour all over her hands on display in the kitchen where Holly taught me the famous yet unwritten recipe. I want to honor the oral tradition by keeping this post rather vague, photographic, […]
Popovers
To make these tasty buns, you must first locate your LP of Teddy Pendergrass’s Turn Off the Lights, with its poetic lyric: Rub me down with some hot oils, babe. Nobody sings it like drunk Paul Rudd in this random, random movie that I do not actually recommend and cannot remember anything about besides this […]
Homebrew Bulldog Biscuits
It is my birthday today!!! KP, Izz, and I are enjoying a relaxing getaway to the obscurity of Northern Iowa, staying at Hotel Pattee, the 20 million dollar remodel project of the conservative Christian billionaires of Home Savings Bank fortune. It is a palace in the corn fields of Perry, Iowa that would seem an […]
Cream Biscuits
Okay, with these simple, speedy biscuits, you have got to Move. Move. Move. Put this song on while you work. Just like yesterday’s biscuits, you don’t want to touch these. Barely mix ‘em. Barely touch ‘em. It’s hot potato dough. Hot, er Cold Pota-dough. Cream Biscuits Servings: 8 large biscuits Note: Bake the biscuits immediately after cutting them […]
Buttermilk Biscuits
Cutting Butter. Before today, I was a person who thought of butter as fat put in food to improve taste. Buttermilk, I thought, was for people who think milk tastes bad, and add butter. Kind of like people who add bacon to everything to make it taste better. Someday, following this logic, There Will Be […]