Daily Archives: March 8, 2016

March 8, 2016   Uncategorized

Photos and Fideo . . .

Our weather today alternated between bright, sunny skies and heavy rain with a lot of wind filling the gaps in-between. And it looks like it’s going to be the same over the next few days.

But based on state weather reports, we came off pretty easy, all things considered. I saw articles about bad storms hitting RV parks around the state, with some damage shown.

Brandi send over a couple of Landon’s school photos this afternoon, and although it’s only been a couple of weeks since we last saw, it looks like he’s grown even more.

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Now that we’ve got our pantry in order and know more about what we have, I decided to do some baking, so Jan picked out a package of Bruce’s Sweet Potato Biscuit Mix.

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Although there is no use-by date on the package, I pretty sure we bought them in 2008 in either Montana or Alaska, so there was some question about their viability. But we won’t know until we tear the package open, right?

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So opening the bag, I gave it the smell test. And so far, so good, it smelled like sweet potatoes and cinnamon.

So I dumped it a large bowl, added the called-for amount of milk (strangely enough, it called for 2%, which is what we had) and mixed it up. I did end up adding some more milk to thin it out a bit, and then dropped the clumps on a greased cookie sheet.

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I laid out eight biscuits before I noticed in the small print that the package was supposed to make 5, so I guess they’re a little smaller than what they’re supposed to be.

And after 15 minutes in the convection oven, and a brush with melted butter, this is what I ended up with. They look more like scones than biscuits, but they do smell good.

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For dinner tonight I fleshed out my leftover Chicken Tortilla Soup with cans of black beans and Ro-Tel Habanero Tomatoes, and then made up a batch of Fideo noodles to put the now-thickened soup over.

With melted cheese on top, and some tortilla chips for crunch, it was maybe better than the first iteration two nights ago. And then for dessert a little later, we had a couple of the biscuits(scones?) each, heated up and buttered. Really, really good, especially for 8 year old biscuits.

When I opened the black beans tonight I saved the empty to try and use for a slobber tube collector on my rig engine. If the weather isn’t too bad tomorrow, I’ll give it a try.

 

Thought for the Day:

Our kids didn’t seem to be too impressed when I sent this to them.

Our daughter Brandi said she would pray for us, though.

And our son Chris said some laws are just meant to be broken.

I thinkJan and I are on our own.

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