Wake me up at 43/19/2023 ![]() The biscuits looked puny going into the oven. I don’t think I used enough cream – the amount called for is a range – and so my dough felt tough and heavy, and by the time I started to worry, I had already worked it too much to go back and add more cream. I can say all of this, and I’m actually pretty sure I didn’t even make them quite right. And it’s an epic biscuit: perfectly salted, tender-crumbed, so flaky that you can pull it apart in fine, lacy sheets. It is not for those seeking a light breakfast – the amount of cream and butter is, shall we say, festive – but it feels light going down, if that makes any difference. I’ve tried a lot of biscuit recipes, and this is my new go-to, easy. They’re outstanding.Ĭunningham says that these biscuits belong in your permanent recipe file, and she is right about that. Impossible! Even if you, like me, become convinced that you messed up the recipe and want to throw away the dough without even baking it and your husband and house guests have to talk you down by promising to eat said biscuits, no matter how bad they are. This woman is teaching me so much! Like that cream biscuits are virtually impossible to mess up. The biscuits on the table on Sunday were Marion Cunningham’s, of course, because that’s how I’m doing things this year. ![]() Biscuits go with raspberry jam and a giant vat of honey. You might even remember that you bought some very foxy tangelos, real supermodels, stems and leaves still attached, and decide to put them in a bowl on the table. You can hear them coming up the stairs from the guest room-slash-dungeon in the basement, trying to be quiet, and then the shower turns on, and while it runs, you can sneak out of bed and into the kitchen and grind the coffee, boil the water, get started. Because if they’re sleeping in our house, we’re obviously fond of them, and who better to cook for than the people you’re fond of? Especially at the start of the day, when everyone is still a little soft, before any crap gets in the way. I don’t think there’s anything I like cooking quite as much as breakfast for house guests. You will note that there are no biscuits in sight, and that is because we ate them. Ben’s wife Bonnie is out of frame, and Brandon, I believe, had retired to the couch by this point. ![]() This was the scene on Sunday morning, and that’s Ben’s leg there, and the edge of his napkin, after what I believe can only be called a biscuit feed. But then someone comes into town, or maybe only across town, with a pint of Coffee Heath Bar Crunch and the first season of Mad Men, and we squeeze on the couch with the dog who growls because we’ve stolen his spot, and we all know to ignore him because we’ve heard it before, we’ve done this before, many times, and then I realize how much I’ve missed my friends. ![]() Most days, days when we don’t have house guests, I spend long stretches of time alone, working. The bourbon in the bottle is two fingers lower than it was last week, and the apartment feels nice, lived-in. And Ryan, who also lived here briefly and was wooed away, is flying in tonight for a visit. Ben, our friend who moved here a couple of years ago but was quickly wooed away by work, is doing a short-term gig nearby and comes around on his days off. Lately we’ve had a lot of friends passing through, lots of changes of sheets on the guest bed. ![]()
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