March 2010 Archives

  • 2 cups flour
  • 4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 tablespoons shortening
  • 1 cup buttermilk, chilled

This is one of my favorite biscuit recipes. Be sure not to knead the dough too much – less is better in this case. It may be a little lumpy, but that is all to the good. Hmm hmm – serve this with sausage gravy and fried eggs for an early but happy heart attack.

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Sausage gravy recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 lb link sausages
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • ¾ pint milk
  • ¼ pint heavy cream
  • ½ teaspoon black pepper
  • dash cayenne pepper
  • 2 tablespoons flour

I find combining milk and heavy cream gives a rich taste, but if you only have milk, that works well also. Adjust the amount of pepper to suit your tastes. This will serve two.

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It seems that reports of the ever expanding “girth” of Americans never seem to end. Every day we are bombarded with stories of how the American waistline is getting larger, and we as a nation are getting sicker as a result. In this age of political correctness there is one restaurant in the South-Western United States that swims against the current. They make no bones about being politically correct.

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