Stacey: Week 5, Cooking for the Whole Fam-dam-ly

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This week’s homework assignment: What does the biscuit mean to you?

This week we were invited to explore biscuit making after learning from the best, Julie van Rosendaal, in class.  Julie helped us learn so much in our short class together and she helped make it possible to salvage the backwards biscuits (liquid goes in last...next time)!  Not only that, she was able to answer random baking questions (i.e. What’s the difference between baking soda and powder? Soda makes the dough expand, powder makes the dough rise) and manipulate recipes on the fly (less baking powder still does the trick without the metal-y taste).

So have I prefaced this enough for you to empathize with me when I tell you my biscuits were hardly comparable to the in-class ones?  I swear I did everything the same as in class, except not backwards, and except without the random improvements Julie was able to suggest along the way…  That being said, they still were yummy and they still took on a biscuit form!

I chose to recreate the blueberry + orange zest biscuit and a standard cheese biscuit.  They were not as flaky as I would have liked but warm from the oven they still made a terrific lunch!  Next time I’m not even sure what I could do different.  Perhaps Julie has just set my expectations too high and I will have to keep practicing them in order to get better.  That’s the best thing about these biscuits…they take no time at all to make and bake!  So easy in fact that you could feasibly have warm biscuits whenever the mood strikes you.

Another successful week in expanding my ability to impress dinner guests with cooking tricks!

–Stacey

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