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Returning to Biscuits!

Friday, 18 May 2012 13:46 | Last Updated on Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:12 | Written by Administrator |

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It's Friday and, as usual, I've packed more into the day than can conceivably fit. Perhaps I'll take my day and work it like a small t-shirt. I'll put my arms in the day and stretch the thing as far as it will go before I slip it on...maybe that will work.

I've been on a personal mission for the last couple of weeks to make the perfect biscuit. When I was 17, I worked at a restaurant called Druthers and made all the homemade biscuits. They were so good. Then, one day a few years later, I totally lost my knack for making those beautiful, wonderful, so yummy morsels of southern flavor. They turned to rocks and I finally just quit making them...I got tired of the jokes from my family.

Suddenly, it hit me a few weeks ago. Why don't I research what went wrong... Why should I not ever make biscuits when surely I can learn it again. Well, I did some Google and You Tube research. I examined recipes and started making them. The first batch was okay, the second was better and last night, I knocked the biscuit ball out of the park. This morning, I'm thinking, "Why oh why do we just quit when we're bad at something?" It's been probably 15 years or so since I made a decent biscuit...maybe more...and all because I did not examine what I was doing and just get it right.
I want to live my life with the courage to examine everything I do and live a life of excellence. Life is meant to be light, fluffy and filling...just like my biscuits!
So, here I go...I'm getting ready to take this day over...and supersize it!
Lisa

PS: Here is the recipe and tips I settled on for the biscuits:

Preheat oven to 400.

2 cups of Self-Rising White Lily flour
1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoon of white sugar (whisk these together. the whisking give it the sifting effect)

1/3 cup of very cold butter (cut in slices) (Work the butter in with a pastry tool or by hand until it resembles coarse meal. You just don't want to give the butter time to melt)

1 cup of cold buttermilk (make a well in the middle of the flour mixture and pour in the milk and work until flour is just wet) Turn out onto floured board/counter/wax paper and fold just until dough forms to press out.

Make 3/4 to 1 inch cut outs and put them on a baking sheet side by side. Indent the middle with your finger.
(I used to think this was to make them look homemade...dumb, I know. Turns out, this will make them rise straight.) Place in the hot oven for about 15-20 minutes, until golden brown. (You can baste the top with buttermilk or butter if you want before you put them in.)

Eat the tarnation out of them. Makes 6-8 yummy biscuits.

For biscuits that split easily in have, roll the dough to thinner than you normally would, then fold over before cutting.

Tea Today

Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:55 | Last Updated on Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:10 | Written by Administrator |

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It's Thursday when I'm writing this and we just finished serving another tea. We did a strawberry theme. I love to have a tea just to slow down and enjoy food and fellowship. I think we gals need to do more of that...slow it down and sniff, behold, and feel the roses. I told our guests I would post the recipes for the tea today, so below is what we served.

Old Airdrie

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Airdire was a real place that inspired Lisa's historical fiction novel, A Mile Below Paradise, Lost City of Airdrie!

Only those who have had the privilege of visiting the remains of Airdrie know the depth of the historical mysterious appeal the forsaken city possesses. The sixty hand hewn stone steps that lead down to a formidable furnace is thrilling, although time has taken its toll on the staircase. At the bottom of the steps looms the amazing furnace that was the center of the town's celebration and also a symbol of its heartbreak.

The stone house with the inscription, Airdrie 1855, still stands as evidence of a people who built up a city and then abandoned it.

This site offers information and resources Lisa discovered while researching her novel, A Mile Below Paradise.

Dignitaries and important men and women either lived at or visited the Scottish settlement. You will be surprised to find out who once walked the woods of the city below Paradise.

About Lisa

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Lisa is a fun-filled Christian Fiction author, speaker and history fan. Lisa is on staff full time at The River in Nortonville. She works as a part of the pastoral team, and has been in some form of ministry since she was a teenager. When asked about being a writer, Lisa says, "Most of what I write does not end up in a book. I write daily for the ministry. I write letters, web content, articles, plays, skits, and more. There's a lot to be written, and writing can be a ministry that flows into so many rewarding areas of life."

Lisa is the author/director of the popular production, "The History of Gospel Music."

Lisa's Current Projects

Tuesday, 08 February 2011 16:05 | Last Updated on Sunday, 04 March 2012 01:57 | Written by Lisa Piper |

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Piper_8 It has been months since I have worked on a novel...maybe over a year. Sure, I still have ten pages left on the asylum book, but I have lost my zeal for that right now. Currently, I am working on a new novel. I don't even think it's going to be a series...just a good old fashioned back to my roots novel.

The only thing I've written for months are plays and letters to my daughter at college. So, here we go, I'm ready for the next round of adventure.

One other note! I have been asked about history books...I am finished with the non fiction for right now. I don't know if I will revisit that side of the writing genre again in the future or not. Who knows...sometimes I just get the bug and have to immerse myself into research... God Bless!