Cooking from the pantry this week, my husband was out of town for a couple of days at the big Sportsman's Expo in Salt Lake. When it's the Dark Time, you grab on to anything you can.
Early in the week, though, there were meals. We had teriyaki stir fry one evening. It's a family favorite and this time it was made with deer.
I've been craving tomato soup on these colder days, and made tomato bacon soup....so good.
It really hit the spot and there were plenty of leftovers to have while he was gone.
There were 3 dead bananas taunting me from the freezer, so I made this banana cake which is is also a family favorite. Not for Elise, who hates bananas with a passion unequaled by any food aversion in the family, but for my husband who starts checking every cupboard in the kitchen for something sweet to eat when there isn't anything sitting obviously right on the counter.
I also took care of the beef stock project. I browned the beef bones in the oven,
then put them in my big countertop roaster for about a day and a half. My kitchen smelled incredible.
I got 14 pints of stock which will find a home in the storage room, and filled some of the jars that have been emptying as we've cooked from the pantry.
That brings us to absolutely the best biscuit recipe I've ever made. Truly. You have to have something to go with/dip in the soup and I wanted to try this new recipe. I'm glad I did. I like biscuits, but the whole rolling and shaping thing just seems like an extra step so I usually do drop biscuits. I need to rethink my strategy, because this is a case of "you get what you pay for." The work of shaping these makes layers and layers that puff up and rise to heights never before achieved. I like it. The recipe comes from this new cookbook or you can find it on her blog.
Butter Biscuits
- 2 cups flour plus a little more for shaping
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup cold butter cut into tablespoons
- 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons cold buttermilk (I rarely have buttermilk in the house, so I went the lemon juice/vinegar route)