Recipes

You have stalked Pinterest, carefully meal planned for the week and are actually excited to try out your new finds when……you’ve been out all day, the traffic was awful, the kid got sick, you have a headache, Murphy’s law showed up and showed out and all of your planning is gone out of the window.

What do you eat? Like seriously.

I know we all have that one easy concoction of a meal that is the go to. Well, share yours. I’m tired of ours.

I’m too ashamed to tell you what one of them is but the other is usually chicken stir fry. I buy the vegetables already cut up in the bag. I throw it in the pot with some pre cut chicken strips, pour a bottle of teriyaki sauce over it while the rice cooker gets the rice ready and voila!

Welp, I think we can only eat so much chicken stir fry. What is your go to easy meal when you just don’t feel like cooking.

My family appreciates your generosity and sharing spirit in advance…trust me.

I made biscuits. From scratch. Me, all by myself…okay with the help of a Paula Deen recipe but my execution was perfect for once.

Here’s the story.

Once upon a time I went to Publix. Although I knew better, I went without a grocery list and as usual I forgot many things to include bread, Ritz crackers and biscuits. Instead of rushing out in the dreary and rainy weather I thought for sure that I might have all of the ingredients on hand to make homemade biscuits after my attempt at making those nasty cupcakes over Christmas. Well call me Suzie Homemaker I had all of the ingredients..barely, but I had them.

I started off by cubing the butter..at least this is my take on it.

Then it said something about cutting the butter into the flour mixture. Cutting? *blank stare* I translated that to mean mash, so that’s what I did.

Since I never have proper utensils I settled on using my cutting board to roll out the dough. “Roll out” to be taken lightly seeing I have no rolling pin and instead flattened it with my hand.

Next I had to cut out the biscuits with a biscuit cutter. Please no shade or laughter at my biscuit cutter.

The recipe stated to butter the pan. Instead I used Baker’s Joy

My oven has been known to sabotage me and thwart my efforts at being great in the kitchen so while the recipe called for 12 minutes I started off at 8 min and they were ready in 10.

Yahhh!!! I did it. If you try this recipe, note that it says it yields 3 dozen and I only got a dozen because I wanted them thick. Ow!!!

What are you good at making from scratch?