This is gettting to be some fun. Not only to play with dough, but getting
up early, watching the sunrise over the peaks, cuppa joe.

This morning, I'm trying the Betty Crocker buttermilk biscuit recipe
with the DIY buttermilk (1T Real Lemon in 1 C 1% milk).

http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes....-herb-biscuits

.....without the herbs.

I'll try the Real Lemon this time and the white vinegar next time.
Both sound unappetizing, but we'll see in the biscuits.

Defrosted a cube steak, but haven't decided to go for chkn frd stk or
use the beef for beef fried rice. My fried rice is perfected an to
die for.

Back to the biscuits. I discovered a good whisk works just as well as
a pastry blender. You just hafta cut the big pieces of shortening up till they're
small enough to fall back out of the whisk or they stay inside, like
in a cage. Saves having to buy another tool. I dug out my Graham
Kerr dough scraper. I don't know if that was his idea....

http://www.akitchen.com/store/grahscraper.html

.....so it would be flat on one side, but it was genius!

Oooh ooh!.... deer feeding outside my window, again. Cool. Gotta a
buncha pics.

Well, my DIY buttermilkd should be fermented, so I think I'll finish
up my dough and toss 'em in the oven. The only thing better than this
morning, so far, would be killer biscuits with butter and sorghum. I'm
still tracking down some sorghum. Almost as rare as Szechuan pepper,
hereabouts.

Be back later with update.

nb