Two things regarding last night's biscuits

[mrissa]

1. Our new cheese-grater is a transcendent experience. Oh, it's such a lovely little thing. It's got a wooden handle that feels nice in my hand, and you move the grater instead of the cheese, and I don't know if I will ever be using our old cheese-grater again. So much quicker. So much easier. Requires hand-washing because of the nice wooden handle, but it's so easy to hand-wash that I can't think this will be a significant drawback.

2. This particular biscuit recipe had been sitting in my recipe file unused. It was for Parmesan-basil biscuits. I thought that white cheddar and garlic would go better with the rest of dinner. They were fine. Fine-ish. They were quite edible, and in fact 11 of the dozen were et by the housemonkeys, the godchildren, and their parents last night. But they were thoroughly uninspired and not the least bit what a fresh, warm garlic-cheese biscuit should be.

"You know what I think is wrong with these?" I said, chewing on the last of my biscuit. "I suspect, in retrospect, that the recipe may have been written attempting to be low-fat."

"Hey!" said Robin. "No name-calling!"

Comments

Slightly off-topic, but ...

[fmi-agent.livejournal.com]

... your description of the cheese grater experience me of my own recent experience with a newly purchased ice scraper, for my car. Very satisfying when those things work better than their predecessors.

Re: Slightly off-topic, but ...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly. The satisfaction of a tool that does what it's supposed to do is hard to match.

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

Is the solution more cheese? That's what I did with a friend's mac and cheese recipe. I just added more cheese. *g*

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I suspect the solution is more cheese and more butter, and possibly more garlic.

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

I suspect that might be the solution to lots of things. :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

So true.

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

I like Robin.

Seriously, though, I'm all for healthy cooking, but trying to do a low-fat cheese biscuit sounds like asking for trouble.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Trying to do a low-fat biscuit is asking for trouble, if you ask me.

You know those pockets and/or flaky layers? That's where the fat was!

Low-fat biscuits. Vegetarian haggis. What's up with my friends' list today?

[songwind.livejournal.com]

You must remember to show me this marvel of cheese-graty-ness when next I come over.

We have been using the new food processor for grating cheese, and ye, verily, it is good.

Well, we still use the Microplane for the parm, but still.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The thing about the food processor is that ours is a great big PITA to clean, and for the most part we are grating cheese for three, not for seven as at your house.

I should correct myself: the food processor is a PITA to clean when I am steady. It is extremely hazardous when I'm dizzy, because there is no safe angle at which to hold the blade attachment.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can totally imagine that would be the case.

We also are using it for big jobs, like enough cheese to make stuffed bell peppers for seven, plus leftovers. Or lasagna(s).

I just wanted to share my own recent cheese-based fortune, not really make a suggestion for you. :)

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

Can you post a picture of the cheese grater? :) I have the cube-type thing and it IS a pain to hand-wash.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It is this one (http://www.ingebretsens.com/details.php?prodID=330).

[hypatia-j.livejournal.com]

Those scandinavians, so clever.