Your Signature Dish?

[jglass]

Hey Cathy..I thought you were camping this weekend kiddo?

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Camping out at home hee-hee. We've been doing so much camping lately I feel like we're on a vacation when we're at home, and it is such a cozy little B&B too!!!

The KOA is having a special if you camp for 4 nights in Aug. you get 5000 extra points on your rewards card, and you get entered into a drawing for 10 Grand, so we're actually going Labor Day weekend, I must not have clarified that when I mentioned camping again...oooops sorry Janie!

[mrsjimmyp]

Well...I have to say My Biscuits are my Signature Dish...lol...

[cookie]

Oh I love Biscuits topped with honey. They are so good. Cookie

[chubbyalaskagriz]

I think biscuits are a good thing to get right, and develop a strong following for, Francie. Not everyone can make a perfect biscuit- that's for sure!

[KYHeirloomer]

"Not everyone can make a perfect biscuit- that's for sure!"

That would be me!

Fortunately, I have friends who can make perfect biscuits. So I don't have to worry about it too much.

[chubbyalaskagriz]

I'm gonna be really honest here- I am NOT a huge biscuit fan. I love KFC and Popeye's chicken- they come with biscuits- I never eat them- they usually get thrown to the pigeons in the parking-lot (ravens and seagulls, in Alaska). Same with McDonald's, Hardees and all these places that offer breakfast sandiwches that I often do eat- I've tried them all, but I never order a biscuit sandwich anymore. Mom's? Grandma's? Sorry- just don't dig them. Too heavy and doughy and super-filling/bloaty for me.

HOWEVER, at Halliburton Energy Services Camp up in Deadhorse, Alaska on the North Slope we had a night-baker named Rusty. Rusty hailed from Arizona and was raised cooking in his family's string of Truck Stops. Rusty made the most amazing baked goods and everything he made was truck-stop sized, or for those who don't know- HUGE! For instance his light cinnamon rolls were the size of a dinner plate! Well, Rusty made these HUGE light biscuits that most folks could only eat one of- but I could eat TWO (they were the size of a chili-bowl!). They were not so heavy that they sunk to your gut immediately upon chowing them down. Nor were they so heavy & doughy that they were still in your systen being digested a full week later!

I don't know Rusty's recipe but I do know that the leavening agent was not only baking powder but also a portion sourdough starter with yeast in it. This must have helped make for the far less heavy product that I tend to prefer.

Now that I think of it, I also enjoyed another biscuit from my past. My breakfast cook Vivian, from the Fairbanks Princess Hotel used to make tiny half-dollar-sized biscuits for the buffet and a couple of those smothered in peppery sausage/sage gravy really hit to spot, too!

[jglass]

I have a couple southern biscuit recipes I use. My Mom made great biscuits but she used lard in them and everything else. I refuse to use lard..ate enough of it growing up. Biscuits are def not my best dish. I make much better cornbread. I dont like to do anything that requires rolling it out. I dont have to room or patience for it. Sometimes Jon does ask for breakfast or breakfast for supper and then I make a small batch of buttermilk biscuits.

[cookie]

I Love Popeye's. I think they are the best fast food chicken place around! I love their biscuits with honey and chicken with hot sauce. I always use them when I don't want to cook or it's to hot to cook. Cookie

[chubbyalaskagriz]

I'm with you, Cookie! Popeye's is da bomb! In fact, I eat Popeye's almost every Tuesday cause they have their "Thigh & Leg for a BUCK" special then. I order 3 specials for $3 total- eat 2 legs & 2 thighs at the nearby park for my supper- then I pack the remaining 2 cold pieces to take to work that night to pair with a dollar caesar side-salad from Wendy's for my midnight lunch on 3rd shift! Yum- I love Tuesdays!

A few years back Hardee's also sold fried chicken- I thought their's was the best, but then they changed and don't offer it anymore. That was a SAD, SAD day in the world for we chicken lovers!