Biscuit Indulgence

I think that my philosophy for my blog entries here will be that if I post appealing enough pictures of food, you will all drop all of your summer plans and flock to my kitchen.

Last week, I decided that I was going to make Pioneer Woman's Bacon Onion Cheddar Biscuits because I was bored and I've been lusting after them for some time.  They were fairly easy... they just took me a little longer because I was taking pictures at the same time.  I also got to use Jon's fancy camera, but I suppose that I'm not really making the best use of it because I have no idea how all of the fancy stuff works.  I just set it on "automatic" and "no flash" and go from there.  Maybe I'll figure out how to take awesome pictures... someday.

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Whatchu need, son:

• 2 cups Flour
• 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
• ¾ teaspoons Salt
• ¼ cups Crisco
• 10 Tablespoons Milk (whole Milk Is Best)
• 4 Tablespoons Vegetable Oil
• 1 whole Egg
• 10 slices Thick Cut Bacon, Fried And Crumbled
• 1 cup Finely Diced Onion
• 1 cup Grated Sharp Cheddar Cheese

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Makin' it:

Cooking bacon is my least favorite part, and eating bacon is my most favorite.  So I decided to cook the bacon first.  The bacon shrunk up a lot, so I cooked the whole pound.

And I layered it to let the grease come off and let the bacon cool.  Oh, and I ate a piece.  Maybe two.

Flour next.  I'm not cool enough to have a strainer, so I measured the flour, baking powder, and salt into a bowl and mixed it around with a fork.  Works the same, in my opinion.

Then I took my quarter cup of Crisco, shuddered a bit at the pure fat that I was holding, and put spoonfuls around the flour.  I'm sorry about the lighting, I'm still working on it.

Then, because I'm also not cool enough to have a pastry cutter, I used a beater and just cut the Crisco into the flour mix.  Again, I have no idea what I'm doing here.

But eventually, it all incorporated and it looked a little lumpy like this.  So that part is done.

Egg stuff time.  This is a cracked egg, and no, I didn't get any shells in it, thank you.

PS, when I worked at Panera my favorite job was making breakfast sandwiches because you got to crack and cook tons of eggs in this contraption thing.  It was super cool.

Add ten tablespoons of milk, which I didn't convert to cups.  And I used skim milk cuz it was all we had.  It worked fine.  Also pretend like I took a picture of adding oil and mixing it all up.

Now its time to bring the egg mixture and flour mixture together.  So pour it right in...

...and use your beater to incorporate that just until everything's together.  I'm guilty of using hands too.

Filling time.  Get yo' onion all ready...

...so that you can peel and chop it.  I didn't take a picture of all that.  PS: I love onionnnn.  I made an onion and cheese omelette this morning.  WHATTT?!?!?!

Because I wanted to stay true to the Pioneer Woman, I did what she said and cooked it in the bacon pan.  However, I poured off all of the bacon grease first.  It filled up a whole mug!

Boy oh boy.  That looks brown.  Shall we take a closer look?

Oh yeah.  Definitely done.  Set this aside for a sec.

Take the bacon that you didn't eat and chop it roughly.  Or use your hands, like me.

We don't really need all of this, do we?  So I can sneak a couple of pieces?  Oh, okay, good.

Here comes the cheddar part of our bacon onion CHEDDAR biscuits.  One cup... and a little more.  Oh heck, I added in a handful more than this, too.

Because I aspire to be the Pioneer Woman, I copied her picture.  But it looks SO NICE, right??  Throw all of that in there pronto.

And, of course, mix it all together.  I used my hands... again.  They were clean.  Promise.

I used two greased muffin pans and spooned some of the mixture into each tin.  I ended up using 18, I think.  Pop them into the oven at 375 for about 20 minutes and...

...heaven will emerge.  Oh, joyous day.  (This is a good pic too, right???)

I might die.  Seriously.  Send help.

 Just to cement it in one last time... this is what you get if you come to Connecticut.  This.  And guess what??

There's still some left.

Just tell me when to pick you all up from the train station/airport.

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And then I went to the gym four days straight.  And then my body wanted to kill me.  No, really, I''m serious.  I think I limped to work Friday morning after Bodypump Wednesday and PiYo (pilates-yoga) Thursday (plus cardio each day, of course).

We bought three cartons of fresh strawberries today... so you'd better bet that that'll be next.

SENDING SOMERS LOVIN,
Courtney