I found this biscuit recipie in a magazine it is from the ever so wonderful Alton Brown. I think that they turned out really good. I love biscuits and I love to make them from scratch. I think that they taste better and they aren't hard at all. I also made a spinach tomato fritata. It was pretty good too. I will include that recipie as well.
I do have to say that I haven't mastered the art of food photography. It is kinda hard and I don't have the best camera. Still, I am learning. Don't judge the food by the picture I guess is what I am saying.
Biscuit Ingredients:
2 C all purpose flour
4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp soda
3/4 tsp salt (I do recommend kosher salt, I love it)
3 TBSP butter, chilled
1/4 C shortening, chilled
1 C buttermilk
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees
In a large mixing bowl whisk together all the dry ingredients. Using your fingers or a pastry blender cut the butter and shortening into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Make a well in the middle of the mixture and pour in the buttermilk. Stir until the dough just comes together. Knead until all the flour has been mixed in.
Put the dough on a slightly floured surface and knead until the dough is smooth, but don't overwork it. Press the dough into a 3/4 inch thick round. Cut out biscuits with round cutter. Place on cookie sheet and bake for 15 - 20 minutes, or until they are tall and light gold on top.
Fritata Ingredients:
8 Large eggs
3 TBSP milk (I will be honest I used half and half today that needed to be used up)
1/2 tsp salt
freshly ground pepper
1/2 tsp dried basil (if I would have had it, I would have used fresh)
1/2 C fresh spinach, cut up
1 tomato, diced
1 C cheese, grated (I used part med cheddar and part Monterey Jack)
Crack eggs in a medium sized mixing bowl, whisk together. Add milk, salt and pepper, basil, and whisk together. Add remaining ingredients. Mix together.
Grease a 9-inch (or so) skillet and let it heat up. Pour egg mixture in pan. Let sit and start to cook. Using a spatula scrape the egg mixture from the outside in letting the uncooked eggs run down past the eggs that have been already cooked. You don't want it to resemble scramble eggs, you want it to stay together. When the eggs look mostly done sprinkle a little more cheese on top and stick in oven (350 degrees) to melt cheese and cook any eggs on top that may not be all the way set. 5-10 min.
You can serve it by slicing it like a pie. Of course my girls like ketchup with theirs, Mike and I ate ours with a slice of avacado. Salsa would be good too.
I do have to say that I haven't mastered the art of food photography. It is kinda hard and I don't have the best camera. Still, I am learning. Don't judge the food by the picture I guess is what I am saying.
Biscuit Ingredients:
2 C all purpose flour
4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp soda
3/4 tsp salt (I do recommend kosher salt, I love it)
3 TBSP butter, chilled
1/4 C shortening, chilled
1 C buttermilk
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees
In a large mixing bowl whisk together all the dry ingredients. Using your fingers or a pastry blender cut the butter and shortening into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Make a well in the middle of the mixture and pour in the buttermilk. Stir until the dough just comes together. Knead until all the flour has been mixed in.
Put the dough on a slightly floured surface and knead until the dough is smooth, but don't overwork it. Press the dough into a 3/4 inch thick round. Cut out biscuits with round cutter. Place on cookie sheet and bake for 15 - 20 minutes, or until they are tall and light gold on top.
Fritata Ingredients:
8 Large eggs
3 TBSP milk (I will be honest I used half and half today that needed to be used up)
1/2 tsp salt
freshly ground pepper
1/2 tsp dried basil (if I would have had it, I would have used fresh)
1/2 C fresh spinach, cut up
1 tomato, diced
1 C cheese, grated (I used part med cheddar and part Monterey Jack)
Crack eggs in a medium sized mixing bowl, whisk together. Add milk, salt and pepper, basil, and whisk together. Add remaining ingredients. Mix together.
Grease a 9-inch (or so) skillet and let it heat up. Pour egg mixture in pan. Let sit and start to cook. Using a spatula scrape the egg mixture from the outside in letting the uncooked eggs run down past the eggs that have been already cooked. You don't want it to resemble scramble eggs, you want it to stay together. When the eggs look mostly done sprinkle a little more cheese on top and stick in oven (350 degrees) to melt cheese and cook any eggs on top that may not be all the way set. 5-10 min.
You can serve it by slicing it like a pie. Of course my girls like ketchup with theirs, Mike and I ate ours with a slice of avacado. Salsa would be good too.
