Vegan Hardee's Biscuits

I made some biscuits the other night that were the best biscuits ever made in a home kitchen. I've had this recipe for a couple of years, but this time I was out of my normal ingredients and had to substitute. They turned out to be (see above). Honestly, the reason they were so good is that they tasted exactly like Hardee's Biscuits. (Hardee's makes biscuits with a capital "B." Properly.) Here is the recipe:

2 C flour

3 tsp baking powder

3/4 C water

1 stick Earth Balance marge (1/2 C), not softened

1 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Mix or sift together dry ingredients. With your immaculately clean, germ free hands, cut the butter into the dry stuff until it is well incorporated but not melty. Add water and mix with hands until it expands a little bit. Drop into 6 equal spoon or spatula fulls into lightly greased muffin tins. Set your timer for 10 minutes and check with a toothpick. Enjoy alone or with friends.

Nutritional Yeast Month

November is nutritional yeast month. On this blog. My friend Dylan blew my already over-yeasted mind tonight at work. Popcorn, one of my favorite things to eat next to cornbread, now is being paired with nutritional yeast! Here it is:

Pop some popcorn. Melt margarine. Pour however much marge you like on your popcorn. In the bucket you popped it in, shake in nutritional yeast, a little salt, and a little SUGAR. Believe me. I know you don't believe me, but don't leave out the SUGAR. This popcorn is so good that if I ate it at the movies I would sit backwards and watch it instead.

The picture above is the recognized "Biggest Popcorn Ball in the World." Gross. It looks like it's in a dirty warehouse.

Nutritional Yeast Sandwiches

Nutritional Yeast is really really good. I'm hoping nothing shitty will be found in it. I love nutritional yeast as much as I loved my Nalgene bottle before it was discovered #7 plastic had Bisphenol A's. I could just see some scientist recalling nutritional yeast: "I am sorry, Daun Fields, but nutritional yeast has a known carcinogen that has given you a really heinous form of something we don't even know to exist. Those sandwiches were too good to be true."

Nutritional Yeast Sandwiches (Safe For Now)

Butter both sides of two pieces of good ole wheat bread. Putting one down in a hot skillet, sprinkle a good amount of nutritional yeast on the bread. I would say approx. 2-3 T. Assemble the top bread onto the yeasty. Grill like a grilled cheese, taking care when you flip it. Dip it. (in ketchup). Anyone who doesn't believe in ketchup dipping is a food snob and a liar.

Quinoa & Wisconsin Cheeses

Went to get a Kombucha on Sunday and decided I would get some fall veg to put in some quinoa. I spent an unmentionable amount of time reading my new Martha, and there was a special article on ancient grains. I had some dry quinoa in the cabinet. I had a pot. I put them all together and this is what I got: Fall Quinoa. Very clever.

Into the cooked quinoa went: Roasted Pumpkin Seeds, Sweet Potato, Yellow Squash, Onion, Parsley, a bit of dried mint. The veg were roasted with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

My dad went to Wisconsin and came back with some aged cheddar and cheese curds for me, along with my favorite fresh smoked salmon from Bearcat's. I believe I am going to have a pilgrimage to this very place next month. I plan on eating nothing but smoked whitefish and herring, and breathing my pescabreath on my sister. It will be fun.

Ren Faire Frites/ Hot Dog Chicken

The Renaissance Faire was really fun. I spent about five hours there just walking around and getting burnt from the sun reflecting off suits of armor. After a couple of hours we became extremely ravenous. There were a few funnel cake type stands, along with a local deli that served gyros and such, but one eatery stood out. In front was a big wooden pirate sign advertising things like Shepherd's Pie, Baked Potatoes, Fried Rice, Chicken Alfredo, and Stir Fried Noodles, amongst other things. There were three workers dressed as pirates? behind the counter, serving drinks, frying things, dipping out of crock pots. Just outside the tent were four bubbling cauldrons of oil manned by a dude in flame decorated Zoobaz, who happed to be cutting entire potatoes into curly fries in seconds with the aid of a rig powered by a Black and Decker drill. I watched all of this from the end of a line that extended all the way back to the archery range and living statue. Chris was intrigued by a menu item called "Dirty Kinky Fries" which we saw other people carrying away from the stand. It was an enormous mound of thick curly fries covered in fragrant crumbled hamburger and nacho cheese. That was enough to wait in line for about 45 minutes, after which we finally got up to the window and ordered from a sweaty disheveled pirate lady of a certain age who had probably dropped her fake accent when we decided to get in line. She said, "God, I'm too old for this, all of you are killing me" and proceeded to fill Chris' plate with tiny brown strings of potato, fork a burnt little hamburger patty on top, and ladle on a half spoonful of crockpot cheese.

My friend Eric made some chicken and BBQ sauce at work today that smelled exactly like hot dogs.

Dog Cakery/Turkey Leg

I took some pictures of a canine cake for my new doggie business. I have to say that my dog's tongue is the longest I've ever seen. It can be coaxed out to great lengths when it comes to cream cheese. I am creating a new site just for the cakery.

I have been practicing my curtsy and am going to a Renaissance Faire on Saturday. Hopefully I will come back with photos of giant turkey legs. I would also like to bring home a jousting pole. or the Queen's favorite pony....I heard they will also have Quizno's subs and funnel cakes.