Cooking Thursday: Homemade Garlic Cheddar Biscuits (perfect with soup!)

 

Hello lovely Friends of Blogland 😊

Happy Thursday! How are you this Friday Eve? I hope your answer is that you're wonderful and you have an amazing weekend ahead of you. We will get some time with Aaron and Jill and that makes my Momma heart so happy! :) 

 I just wanted to also say thank you for the all the love on Bubba's good news! It's so nice that I can cross one worry off the list. 🙏🏻💗 

It's overcast right now and a chilly 42* here in the northwoods. Leaves litter the landscape and it looks like late Fall. It is supposed to warm up this weekend and be in the upper 50's. So that will be lovely and we will take advantage of it with some outdoor projects. Lately, however, I have been working on some indoor projects - including homespun Christmas gifts. I've also been doing more of my zen coloring app - it's just a relaxing thing I often do on my ipad while watching tv in the evenings. I've been coloring Halloween inspired pics lately - here are a couple from the other night. I love how the second one looks like felt fabric:

And in other cozy news we finally put the Fall patchwork quilt on our bed. And underneath that is a an even warmer layer of a knit weave kind of blanket layer from L.L.Bean. I've had it forever and it's so warm and heavy like a weighted blanket. So we are snug as bugs over here now that it's been getting so cold at night. And I think the quilt is cute with the Autumn garland I had already put on the headboard. 🍁🧡

In this continued yummy soup season I thought I would share that the lasagna soup I made the other day in the slow cooker was so tasty! I share about it and the recipe in a prior post. But I'll share the recipe again here and this is a pic of the one I made. We added a little ricotta to the top of ours and some shredded parm cheese. Absolutely delish!

And I thought I would also share this recipe for homemade garlic cheddar bay biscuits that I made to go with the soup. Think the Red Lobster biscuits but I just made them from scratch with things I had at home. I found the recipe at thecozycook.com They turned out great and even a fluffier, less dense texture than the boxed kind. I followed the directions and in her post she shared easy ways to make quick homemade buttermilk. I followed the one using white vinegar and it turned out great! You can find the post about the biscuits and all instructions here. But I will also share the recipe below and a pic of the ones I made:

Ingredients

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• ▢2 cups all-purpose flour
• ▢2 teaspoons baking powder
• ▢½ teaspoon baking soda
• ▢1 teaspoon granulated sugar
• ▢¾ teaspoon salt, see notes
• ▢½ teaspoon garlic powder
• ▢¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
• ▢1 cup sharp cheddar cheese, about 4 oz.
• ▢1 cup cold buttermilk, see notes for substitution options
• ▢½ cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled for 5 minutes

For the Topping:

• ▢2 tablespoons melted butter
• ▢½ teaspoon garlic powder
• ▢¼ teaspoon dry parsley

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
• In a large bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, salt, garlic powder and cayenne pepper. Stir in the cheddar cheese and set aside.
• In a separate bowl, mix the buttermilk and melted butter together until small lumps form.
• Add the buttermilk to the large bowl with the flour and mix until a dough has formed and the ingredients are no longer dry. Do not overmix.
• Lightly grease a ¼ cup and scoop out the dough with it. Place on a light colored, lightly greased baking sheet, leaving slightly more than an inch between each. You should have 10 total.
• Bake for about 12 minutes, until they are golden brown.
• While the biscuits are baking, combine melted butter, garlic powder, and parsley. Brush the tops of the biscuits when they come out of the oven and serve immediately.

If you try either of these recipes I hope you enjoy them! 

We need to go grocery shopping soon and I'm thinking of adding on the list ingredients to make a pumpkin cream cheese bread I haven't made in a while. I also recently found a recipe for Autumn inspired stuffed chicken breasts I may make too. 

I love cozy kitchen season, how about you? 

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