Biscuits...

I buy a lot of mixes - pancake, biscuit, cake, cookies, brownies. Not because I can't figure out how to make these things from scratch, but because I don't particularly enjoy it. I'm not a baker. Baking requires scientific, precise measurements. I'm more of a toss-it-together-and-see-what-happens type of cook. I rarely follow recipes and tend to end up mixing several when I try. I joke with Chad that recipes are the inspiration for my meals, not the guidelines. Needless to say, baking is not my forte. Hence the mixes.

Every now and again, though, I find myself out of mixes and in need of something like cornbread or biscuits. I drag out my bin of flour. (Just because I don't bake doesn't mean I don't have the goods.) I get out the measuring cups and dust them off. Then I start googling recipes, looking for the simplest, least likely to fail recipe.

Tonight it was biscuits. I whipped them up and realized that, honestly, it only has two more ingredients than my mix. I forget sometimes how simple these basic recipes can be. When you take out all the fancy-schmancy additions, it's just flour, baking powder, salt, butter and milk.

My biscuits turned out yummy and only took five minutes to mix up. I think I may scratch Bisquick off my grocery list. I can handle biscuits.