Chicken and Vegetable Cobbler
15 Mar 2014 Leave a comment
in Chicken, Entrees Tags: Casserole, Chicken, Comfort food
Buttermilk Biscones 1 ½ cups unbleached all-purpose flour 1 ½ cups cake flour (not self-rising) ¼ cup sugar 2 tablespoons baking powder ¾ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon cardamom 2 sticks cold butter, cut into ½ inch cubes 1 ½ cups buttermilk (more or less, as needed) Preheat oven to 375 ͦ. Line baking sheet with parchment paper. In a large mixing bowl, combine the flours, sugar, baking powder, salt, and cardamom and whisk until completely incorporated. Cut the butter in with a pastry blender, or do this in a food processor using quick pulses. You should end up with various-sized pieces of butter, from sandy patches, to pea-sized and larger ones as well. Gradually pour in the buttermilk and fold the ingredients until you have a soft dough and there are no bits of flour at the bottom of the bowl. If this happens before you’ve used all of the buttermilk, don’t use the entire 1 ½ cups or it’ll end up to sticky. If you’ve used it all up but it’s still too dry, use a little more buttermilk. Gently pat the dough in the bowl until it resembles a loaf of bread. Dust the top of it lightly with flour. Using a large ice cream scoop, scoop mounds of dough onto the prepared baking sheet so that they are 1 inch apart. Lightly tap the tops down. Brush lightly with extra buttermilk before baking.
Kool Aid Play Dough
01 Mar 2014 Leave a comment
My grandmother made this recipe for my daughters often when they would sleep over at her house. She’d make it for them and then they’d sit for hours at her kitchen counter, with rolling pins and all of her cookie cutters at their disposal, happily chatting away to her as they rolled this out over and over, cutting out their favorite shapes. This recipe not only smells great, but has the added advantage of being completely non-toxic, in case your little one decides to take a taste (as little ones are known to do!). I’ve pulled it out now because one of my girls, working her way through college as a nanny, asked me for it so she can make it for the kids she watches a few days every week. This is one recipe that simply builds its own memories.
Kool-aid® Playdough
3 cups flour
½ cup salt
2 packages unsweetened Kool-Aid
2 cups boiling water
3 Tbls vegetable oil
Mix dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Carefully add the hot water and stir with a large spoon until all is moistened. Knead the oil in to the mix as soon as it’s cool enough to handle. Continue to knead until the dough is completely smooth. Store in zip-loc bags or Tupperware.