Cheesy.

[anagramofbrat]

Okay, note to self - next time I'm cripplingly depressed? tell me to go bake/cook something. It helps. Especially if it turns out pretty damn good.

Anyway I finally made some cotdamn cheese biscuits and they were delicious. Delicious like crack.

• 2 cups flour (I use unbleached; you can also go for 1 cup whole wheat and 1 cup "white")
  
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
  
• 1/3 cup sugar
  
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
  
• 1/4 cup butter (or margarine)
  
• 1 cup milk
  
• 1/3 tsp garlic powder
  
• 1 cup shredded/grated cheese. Grate/set aside an additional 1/4-1/2 cup for garnish if desired.

Preheat oven to 450. Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Turn out dough onto floured surface and knead for 1 minute. Pat or roll out to 1/2" thick. Cut out 2 1/2" rounds and lay on greased cookie sheet with edges touching. Bake for 12 minutes or until tops are golden.

While biscuits are baking combine in a small saucepan:

• 1 stick (1.5 cup) of melted butter or margarine
  
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  
• 1/2 teaspoon old bay seasoning
  
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Remove biscuits from oven. Separate biscuits and liberally coat tops and sides with butter glaze. Let dry.

If desired (and extra cheesy goodness is always desired), sprinkle additional cheese on top of each biscuit. Set under broiler until cheese melts/crisps.

Makes about 8-9 biscuits. Serve hot. Nom.

The hardest thing about making these frankly, was grating up all the cheese. A cup and a half is a LOT of grating. Serves me right for wanting to use extra sharp cheddar. And you know, not wanting to spend extra on a package of shredded. Totally worth it though. But yeah, if I didn't have to stand there and grate cheese, this would have taken me a grand total of half an hour to whip up.

But yeah, now you know why I wanted to know the components of bisquick a couple weeks back. I wanted to be able to adapt the recipe from here to possibly accomodate whole wheat flour, but today I didn't have any and I needed to bake and eat stuff.

I may reprise these for Super Bowl next week which brings me to my next topic: Superbowl at The Great Race War next Sunday. Bring noms, and if not game spirit, a willingness to make fun of expensively bad commercials and men playing grabass. Whoops. Looks like house McGurk/McElroy are hosting this year.

Comments

[mahasin.livejournal.com]

I make those every year for thanksgiving and christmas and they are so fucking good.

[northernwalker]

These sound nomish- though I am lazy and buy grated cheese. May make this weekend!

[breakableheart.livejournal.com]

Enough with the biscuit talk! I'm making these tonight! I have some beef stew out of the freezer and biscuits will go perfectly with that. I'll whup up a bunch of cole slaw for a side and dinner will be served. Mom will love it!

[breakableheart.livejournal.com]

How do you like your bisquick now? Eh? Eh?

Just kidding. ;)

How about rolling these puppies pretty dang thin and baking them in a quick hot oven for some cheese sticks? Party food? Yes?

[breakableheart.livejournal.com]

Oh holy fuck! The biscuits are out of the oven and in mah belly. Mom is on her second one! I served them with chunky tomato basil soup. It's a match made in heaven.

[mahasin.livejournal.com]

I actually made it into a loaf for my work christmas party and it was a HUGE hit.