Okay, the other day, I got a little carried away in the kitchen. Well, it all started with an awesome crock-pot recipe for creamy, southern-style chicken. I’m all chickened out. We are dieting, so we’ve been eating a lot of lean meats lately – primarily chicken. I needed a low fat dinner chicken option that would also be incredibly rich and scrumptious. So, I tried ...
a slow cooker chicken recipe that mimics chicken and old fashioned gravy.

And what goes perfectly with chicken and gravy? Of course, homemade biscuits! After some online research, I found the most awesome YouTube video by gone-ta-pott.com with a little granny preparing southern buttermilk biscuits. She did everything with her hands – no fancy gadgets. She even made the biscuits with her hands – not cutters needed. She made it look so easy that I ran out to purchase the ingredients to try it myself.

Let me tell you, it’s not as easy as “granny” made it look. I squished around in the dough just as she did, but mine looked like a yucky mess of goo. It took a lot of buttermilk to transform my concoction into something I could put on a cooking sheet.

In the end, my biscuits looked nothing like hers. They were pretty, but not in the formation hers was. The only problem is they had not flavor. Sorry, granny.(Click here if you want to try)

Then the light of heaven shone in my kitchen.

As I was cleaning up, I noticed a buttermilk biscuit recipe on my Gold Medal flour package*. So, I threw caution to the wind and gave that recipe a try. Well, I was a bit more optimistic because the recipe was a little more traditional – using a pastry cutter, a little sugar, and a biscuit cutter (Hello!). The Gold Medal biscuits were not much to look at, but they were absolutely delicious! My family inhaled them. They made for perfect sopping.

Lesson 1: Everything that looks easy is not easy.
Lesson 2: Recipes on packages really can pan out.


*Watch for recipe tomorrow. In bed today with a cold, will muster the strength to climb from bed, copy the recipe, type it out tomorrow morning. How's that for drama?