My Bacon Cheesy Biscuits

I have finally made and taken photos and am now about to write about my experience making one of the many recipes I put on this blog. I tried the bacon cheesy biscuits and I must say that they were pretty good.

A couple things went, not quite wrong but a little differently, like the fact that I had to use whole wheat flour instead of regular white all purpose flour because Mummy inadvertently bought whole wheat thinking that it was regular flour. I used cheddar cheese in mine as well. I think those were the only real differences though. The whole wheat flour I think caused the texture to be more dense than I was expecting and I didn't sift the flour either which could have also contributed to that. I also ended up baking them for way longer than 15 minutes, because at 15 they were far from ready. Next time I'll have to play around a bit with the oven to figure out the right temperature and time to bake them for.

Next time I'll definitely add more bacon. My brother and I are bacon fiends so there's no such thing as too much bacon. Initially when I grated all of the cheese I thought that it might have been too much cheese but the flavour in the end was nice. All in all I think they came out well and my brother and next door neighbor ate them all off. Although that could just be because they're boys and will eat pretty much anything.

(Photo Slideshow: http://tinyurl.com/46tf5wd)

Delinquent

When I began this blog my intention was to put photos of my own attempts at cooking and I realize that I've been very delinquent about this. I've made the peanut butter caramel apples (they were amazing!), I've made brownies (albeit Betty Crocker), I've made cheesecake (JELLO brand- the easiest possible version of cheesecake I know of), I've made bacon crepes and possibly other things I can't remember but I haven't posted any photo's or any of my experiences doing them, so I will take my camera with me today when I am going to make the Christmas pudding and I will take photographs galore. That is if I finish at work early enough to be able to go and bake.

Featured Blog: Zoom Yummy

Zoom Yummy is the blog that I got the cheesey bacon muffin recipe from and every other recipe I see on it is one that I want to try. I don't know if the recipe's are actually good or if it's the fabulous photography that makes the end product look amazing but I must say that I'm hooked on this site. The recipes are simple and the ingredients are pretty common everyday things that should not be a problem to find in Jamaica. I think I may try the brownie recipe next. I am a huge Betty Crocker fan and I don't see why I should have to put out the extra effort for something that may not be as good when Betty and I work so well together. This brownie recipe looks very simple though, simple enough for me to give Betty a break and try it.

The problem with loving to make food is that there are always far more recipes to want to make than time to make them. =(

Domestic Inclinations

It's been a while, but not to worry, the cooking fever has not left me yet. I've just been busy I suppose. I had graduation, my dance season and work. Of course the work never ends but now that the other things have I can devote more time here.

I love shopping for cooking things. Since I last wrote I've acquired two whisks (one big, one small), a candy thermometer and a spatula. Each purchase gets me more excited than the last and I had to resist the urge to buy a third whisk simply because it's the baby version to my big one. Have I used any of the things yet? Well I have used the big whisk and spatula, but the baby whisk is waiting on me to make chocolate mousse. In the meantime, I'm on the hunt for heavy cream which refuses to be found anywhere. Tomorrow I will go searching again because today is already very crazy.

Over time I have found that whenever I like someone my domestic side comes out, it's so weird because generally I despise cooking, cleaning and the like. My cooking thing is a recent development, hopefully one that will stick. Since Christmas is coming I told my mother that I want her to teach me how to make Christmas cake/pudding this year. She in turn told me that I should go to my grand-aunt's house and have her teach me because her cakes are amazing, and at age 97 she can't make them anymore. This is what I should be doing at some point today. I'm not quite sure how that will fit into the already hectic schedule of today but I'm still excited.

I also bought a journal to write my random recipes in. It's such a pretty book and it's one that is ring bound so that way it will lie flat when I'm reading a recipe from it. I've written in about four recipe's so far. Eventually I want to write the ones I put on this blog in there because that way I'll have them at the ready when I need them. Like during the past week, I went home to the country and for some reason the internet wasn't working so I couldn't access the cheese and bacon biscuits recipe. That was the first recipe I wrote from the blog into my book. I figure eventually if the book lasts that long then I'll pass it on to my daughter or something like that.