Southern Biscuits Recipe : Alton Brown Directions Preheat oven to 450 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Using your fingertips, rub butter and shortening into dry ingredients until mixture looks like crumbs. Turn dough onto floured surface, dust top with flour and gently fold dough over on itself 5 or 6 times. Bake until biscuits are tall and light gold on top, 15 to 20 minutes. Per biscuit: Calories: 121 ;Total Fat: 4.5 grams; Saturated Fat: 2 grams; Protein: 3 grams; Total carbohydrates: 17 grams; Sugar: 1 gram; Fiber: 0.5 gram; Cholesterol: 6 milligrams; Sodium: 331 milligrams Advice courtesy Mae Skelton I don't have much use for recipes but the one you get on a bag of White Lily® self-rising flour is hard to beat.
Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe Chocolate Chip Cookies: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) with rack in center of oven. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. In the bowl of your electric mixer (or with a hand mixer), beat the butter until smooth and creamy. Add the white and brown sugars and beat until fluffy (about 2 minutes). Beat in eggs, one at a time, making sure to beat well after each addition. Add the vanilla and beat until incorporated. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt. For large cookies, use about a 2 tablespoon ice cream scoop or with two spoons, drop about 2 tablespoons of dough (35 grams) onto the prepared baking sheets. Makes about 4 dozen - 3 inch round cookies. Note: You can freeze this dough. View comments on this recipe on YouTube
slow-roasted tomatoes I am sometimes certain that I wait all year for tomato season, you know, the way a more normal person might be excited for the Giants to get back to the field or eagerly anticipate whatever sleek and minimal trinket Apple has coming out this fall. But for me, it’s just tomatoes. I eat them on eggs, in sandwiches, cooked and raw in every possible format from paste to pasta to chili and seriously, don’t even try to bring me a cream cheese-schmeared bagel without a thin slice of tomato on it. Alex did once and let’s just say, it didn’t go over well. Poor Alex. I love tomatoes so much that I even occasionally take part in the blasphemy that is “sun-dried tomatoes,” most of which are about as dried out in the sun as I am this week–unfortunately not the case for either of us. And what to do with them? One year ago: Oh look, I was gushing over the exact same thing. Slow Roasted Tomatoes Preheat oven to 225°F. Bake the tomatoes in the oven for about three hours.
Secret Ingredient Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe Secret Ingredient Chocolate Chip Cookies Can you guess the secret ingredient in this new recipe for the best-ever chocolate chip cookies? Here are a few hints: 1. Still stumped? The secret ingredient in my chocolate chip cookies is none other than … cream cheese! Ready to up your chocolate chip cookie game? DO use brown sugar in addition to granulated sugar. Drooling yet?