Les Biscuits, Grilled Cheeses, and Cucumber Salad.

=> Holy mackerels it's been one frantic weekend. TGIM, never thought I'd ever say that. As you may have noticed we have hardly been cooking properly the last few days (*hemhem*T*hemhem*) and between biomech, lab papers, canoeing, head colds, and a potluck, it would be a repeat for tonight's dinner.
Well at least tonight's was prepared with fresh foods. Earlier in the day though H made some delicious biscuits; why throw out sour milk when you can turn it into food?!

(H, can you link the recipe here?)
pssh! no way! ancient secret family recipe!
nahh.. jokes, pretty sure it came out of a magazine from like the '80s...

·         2 cups all purpose flour

·         4 teaspoons baking powder

·         ¼ teaspoon baking soda

·         ½ teaspoon salt

·         1/3 cup shortening (I used butter)

·         ¾ cup + 2 tablespoons buttermilk or sour milk

Preheat oven to 450ºF.  In a mixing bowl, blend flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.  Cut shortening into dry ingredients until mixture has the consistency of fine crumbs.  Add the buttermilk and stir to make a soft dough.  Turn dough onto a lightly-floured surface and knead gently 8-10 times.  Pat to desired thickness.  Cut out with round 1 ¾” wide cutter.  Place on ungreased baking sheets close together for soft biscuits, about 1” apart for crusty biscuits.  Bake 12-15 minutes.

Placed in a pie dish, ceran wrapped, good to go for breakfast or afternoon tea for the next few days.

$1.50 whole wheat bread
$0.50 ham (3 packages for $1.50)
$1 something OJ
$0.75 cucumber (2 for $1.50)

Grilled cheese with ham, quite self explanatory.
As with the OJ.
The cucumber salad has thinly sliced cucumbers and tomatoes and the dressing was sour cream, dill dressing, salt and pepper, and a splash of vinegar. Put everything into tupperware, shake and it's good to go.

=> We had Chapman's Nanaimo Frozen Yogurt as dessert, I don't remember how much it was at the moment but I do know that it was on sale. It's actually quite yum and does well as a substitute for an actual Nanaimo bar.

As always, you don't need to be Marie Antoinette to eat cake!
- EHM-XLS