"There are biscuits and there are biscuits. There are biscuits that you serve with chili, with barbecue or alongside some eggs and grits. And there are biscuits that you bring out in a warmed basket with a cloth napkin draped over them at a dinner party, to sop up a braise or slather with honey-butter. These biscuits are of the latter variety but I suspect they will quickly become your one and only biscuit because if you’re anything like me, you’ll wonder where they’ve been your whole life."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
Bryce, we might have different names for what are often the same things. In the States, biscuits are a simple bread that's eaten with savory foods. My parents are from the South, so we often ate them with chicken, gravy, etc.
- Derrick
Basically your basic biscuit dough, but you add yeast. My first girlfriend turned me on to them, and now, whenever I'm back in Georgia visiting, I ask her to make them for me if she has me over for dinner.
- cecily
Derrick - Some people call Angel Biscuits "Bride's Biscuits." The reason being that the combination of rising elements makes them so fool-proof that even a new bride can make them. A wee bit sexist, but they are still called that fairly often.
- Katy S
#oohcecily! I've made those. They're awesome!. The first time, I cut them too large, and they looked like hamburger buns when I took them out of the oven. They were good, though. :)
- ha3rvey (chee-la-key-les)
The KA blog featured angel biscuits last spring. Here's the link: http://www.kingarthurflour.com/blog... EDITED TO ADD: OMG! I just saw their variation with the cinnamon chips and cinnamon sugar! Now I'm hungry.
- Katy S
Ooh, nice Katy. In all of my baking, I've yet to attempt biscuits. I gotta get on that.
- Derrick
*volunteers to be D.'s biscuit baking guinea pig*
- Ayşe E.
has never met a biscuit she didn't like ---->
- Ayşe E.
I want some freakin' biscuits now. Just biscuits, some butter and some jam. Good lord.
- Derrick
Just remembered that I have some whole wheat buttermilk biscuits in my freezer and some apple butter in the cupboard. Temptation is close at hand.
- Katy S
"This rich, creamy pudding is delicious served warm or cold. If you feel like dressing up the dessert a bit, add a cinnamon stick while the rice is cooking, or top the finished pudding with a sprinkling of raisins and a little freshly grated nutmeg just before serving."
- Anna Haro
from Bookmarklet
"A controversial Scottish brewery has launched what it described as the world's strongest beer - with a 32% alcohol content."
- Anna Haro
from Bookmarklet
64 Proof! Wow! That puts this beer in the spirits category, which starts at 20% alcohol content!
- Kurt Kringle
I've seen their other beers in the shops, not tried them yet. I love the name, "Tactical Nuclear Penguin" = :D
- Amy
I believe that spirits in the UK start at 40%, or maybe that's just whisky.
- James Myatt
I've had one of their beers from Tesco before and it was extremely tasty; IIRC, it was Punk IPA. They really do have fantastic marketing. I have a lot of respect for them.
- James Myatt
This is going to be to be what Mad Dog 20/20 was to wine. The Danes used to frown on we Americans who enjoyed an occasional Carlsberg Elephant beer, because over there that puts you in the same class as the public drunks and public urinators (which, of course, go hand in hand.) This a lot more potent that Elephant!
- Mark Jepsen
The video is indeed excellent, Susan.
- Mark Jepsen
Only the scotts!! *que Irish immigration to Scotland*
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
"Dirt. Noise. Crowds. Delays. Scary smells. Even scarier fluids swirling on the floor. There are lots of reasons to loathe the New York City subway, but one very good reason to love it — Helvetica, the typeface that’s used on its signage."
- Anna Haro
from Bookmarklet
"Seeing the clean, crisp shapes of those letters and numbers at station entrances, on the platforms and inside the trains is always a treat, at least it is until I spot the “Do not lean ...” sign on the train doors. Ugh! There’s something not quite right about the “e” and the “a” in the word “lean.” Somehow they seem too small and too cramped. Once I’ve noticed them, the memory of the clean, crisp letters fades, and all I remember are the “off” ones."
- Anna Haro
"That’s the problem with loving typography. It’s always a pleasure to discover a formally gorgeous, subtly expressive typeface while walking along a street or leafing through a magazine. But that joy is swiftly obliterated by the sight of a typographic howler. It’s like having a heightened sense of smell. You spend much more of your time wincing at noxious stinks, than reveling in delightful aromas."
- Anna Haro
Happy Birthday! (Belatedly... no, you're birthday was right on time... it's just my birthday wish that's belated... am I overexplaining?)
- Mark Jepsen
"Otter pups always provide for a generous helping of "pile-on". This series of images taken at the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan in Osaka, Japan is no exception. The Asian Small-Clawed Otter pups, born in late August, are still on display to the public and have met with much popularity this fall."
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
from Bookmarklet
This is The Obligatory "poor squirrel, was it injured?" Comment.
- Kamilah Gill
Soon after that scientists had proof there is water beneath the Moon's crust.
- Jemm
Dame Edna has a similar emergency mechanism she can use if certain guests on the show have to be preemptively aborted, although I believe hers is a trap door in the stage.
- Kittyburgers
I need one of those! Dang squirrels constantly mess everything up in my yard!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Your lucky, I have raccoons, their messes are 3-4 times bigger.
- Ed Millard
seems to be an SPCA problem here ..Entrapment ?? enticement ?? whatever ..the squirrel got butt kicked on this round !
- Peter Dawson
So awesome. Would love to see an armadillo take off like that.
- Josh Haley
Are armadillos pests? Because part of the reason I don't feel bad about seeing this GIF is because squirrels are such awful pests here and there aren't enough predators to keep them in check.
- Spidra Webster
I would launch ANYthing in that thing, pets, wildebeasts, you name it.
- Josh Haley
*waits for Josh to launch his gummy-worm minifig in that thing*
- Micah Wittman
Whew, when I finished PML watching the astroskwirl, I thought A) pity we don't have them in the wild here in Australia and B) cats do like skwirls, and I have two cats, maybe that's why no little furry rodents live near me...
- Ted Russ
I like how it has to walk up two boxes to get to the goodies and it gladly obliges.
- Will Higgins™
The best part about launching an armadillo would be seeing how far it rolls assuming it rolls up in to a ball in flight. It could replace pumpkin cannons and frog jumping as a sport.
- Ed Millard
Hmm, should show this to my Mom and see if she can rig something up to her bird feeders so the squirrels don't try to get to the seed. :P
- Mol, Santa Claws
It's the third largest mosque in the world, carefully just smaller than Mecca and Medina, and the only one of the three I may visit as a non-Muslim. And a challenge to photograph! I've taken probably thirty pictures of the Grand Mosque from the outside, and never liked a one of them, and I haven't loved any of the official photos either. It tends to look unreal, like an architect's rendering or a scale model, unless it is framed by something else. The photo above was taken from the car through the window with lots of distortion and reflection, the one below from the parking lot, and for now these are the best I can figure to do.
- Cee Bee
An Iranian carpet placed in the main prayer hall, woven by about 1200 Iranian women, is 5000 sq m and is the largest hand-woven carpet in the world, made out of 35 tons of wool and cotton. Cost AED 30 million, delivered to Abu Dhabi in early August 2007.
- Cee Bee
"Good advice, I guess. In the end, I chose a Glendale clinic because it was close to home, offered "superior professionalism" and had an appointment time that worked for me. But I was a bit nervous on my way to see the doctor. What if I got rejected? Not that I've heard of that happening to anyone. The open secret is that it's a cinch to get a marijuana "recommendation" in California. A "recommendation" isn't a prescription, but it would allow me to visit a dispensary and buy my buds."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
I heard on the radio this morning that California is looking to legalize recreational us.
- Adam Harrison
they totally should. It's sort of silly really that pretty much anyone can go to a doctor's office, claim migraines and get a recommendation to buy pot. Why not just legalize recreational use and tax it?
- Thomas Hawk
The idea of being officially registered as a federal criminal (the current arrangement) is off-putting to many. Legalization would make things a lot less murky.
- Jason Wehmhoener
from iPhone
The same thing was said for licensed growers. I know a few people who considered growning for clinics and clubs, but didn't want to put their name on an "arrest me" list. But a lot of people did start growing, and I think most are doing fine. Reminds me when the feds raided a farm in Santa Cruz, so the city of Santa Cruz deputized the farms as a big "Fuck You" to the DEA.
- Adam Harrison
Heheh... I like Adam's "recreational us"... Typ-o or not?
- SAM
Jason, you're not necessarily officially registered. You can get an ID card from the state but that's optional. Legally all you need is from the doctor, and presumably he/she follows confidentiality rules. If you're a member of a co-op that gets busted by the DEA, the feds would have your name, but there are plenty of places to go that don't record your info. That said, I'm for...
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- Thursday Lo :)
"I do believe that you can achieve more if you're willing to take risks," Lars said in a recent phone interview. "There's almost a total correlation between the amount of risk you're willing to take and then the amount of stuff you then potentially can get done."
- Tom Stocky
from Bookmarklet