Buttermilk Biscuit Babies

I always think that I enjoy cooking, until I’m actually in the kitchen managing three pans of food while trying to scroll through the recipes on my phone.  Somewhere in that chaos, I remember that I hate cooking.  It stresses me out!  I can’t handle the pressure of cooking.  I can sou-chef it all day, just tell me what to chop and give me one thing to watch.  I’m a great assistant.  

What I genuinely do enjoy in the kitchen is BAKING!  Baking is relaxing to me.  I guess maybe the biggest difference is that I only have to focus on one thing, so maybe what I’m saying here is that I have ADD am more dedicated to one thing at a time.  

The biggest reasons that I don’t bake more often are

1. I don’t trust myself around large quantities of baked goods.
2. Our kitchen is relatively small.
3. I don’t have any fancy baking gear, so I’m easily intimidated when recipes use phrases like “set mixer to high” or “cut in butter”.... Although I am a former ice cream scooper, my forearms are just not what they used to be.

But, when the favor from my friend’s bridal shower was homemade strawberry jam, I knew that I had to try this jam with some homemade biscuits my boyfriend threatened to leave if I didn't make homemade biscuits.  So I went to my favorite food blog, Pursuit of Sweetness, written by one of my favorite people. We've traveled what feels like half the world together, and you just won't find a more reliable, quirky, and hilarious friend. Although I was briefly sidetracked by her homemade s'mores (Seriously? I want this to be my desktop background), I eventually found the BEST recipe for buttermilk biscuits!

Here's the recipe from her blog: Better Buttermilk Biscuits ...you should just read her post about it so you can read all of her tips and advice. Like I said in Reason 3, I get really intimidated by the phrase "cut in butter" but she had this amazing tip to just grate the butter with a cheese grater right into the flour. It was so easy and worked perfectly! I halved her recipe, because as you already know from Reason 1, I don't trust myself around large quantities of baked goods.

Here are my beautiful baby biskeez! And the delicious homemade jam!

love and self-rising flour,

AB