Hope you can see it better up close.
I made two batches so I'd have leftovers. Oddly enough, the first batch made 11 and the second batch made 12. Next time I'll make it all together, but for the first time I wanted to make it just like the recipe was written so I could see exactly how it was supposed to be.
And if you don't have buttermilk on hand, which I don't a lot of times, you can put a tablespoon of lemon juice in a one cup measuring cup and then add milk to equal one cup. Since this calls for 3/4 cup, I suppose you could just use 3/4 T lemon juice in a 3/4 cup measuring cup and add milk to equal 3/4 cup. I see no reason why not. No need to throw away perfectly good milk. I think you're supposed to let it sit for a few minutes to let it activate or something, too. Don't really know why I think that, but I usually do because it seems like I read it once.
If you like a good biscuit or two, or like me, five, make these. Or if you have a big family, more than one batch so you can have five.
Last week we had two really good new recipes that are without a doubt keepers. Even my boys didn't complain and thought they were good.
I could use adjectives like fantastic, yummy, or scrumptious instead, but we'll just go with the original. I doubled it for my family and had the leftover noodles for lunch by themselves the next day with a little garlic salt sprinkled on. The chicken would be fantastic on top of a salad just as well as the noodles. It's really pretty multi-purpose. I did not add the roma tomatoes or the capers called for in the original recipe.
3. who don't mind sharing expensive birding binoculars with you
5. and have enough to go around counting their parents' binoculars
7. and don't mind telling you what bird you found when you say, "I see a little bird there." (By the end of the second day, Hubby, Buddy, and Sparky were getting pretty good at identifying some of the warblers. I on the other hand was lucky to find them through the binoculars with my new progressive lenses, and the rest of the time I was entertaining the child who thought it was the worst day of his life, two days in a row.)
I had to carry it all in one of those heavy-duty reusable Whole Foods bags. Heavy, indeed!
This really makes me look like quite the magazine/catalog girl, which I'm not. It had just gotten a bit out of hand and backed up since the apartment and the move. They just got thrown aside for later.
This will be an easy week since I don't have to plan for Friday or Saturday (we're going to Ohio and birding, and I'll have to let you know exactly how that goes) and then Sunday is Mother's Day, so we'll eat out. And of course I don't want to leave leftovers in the refrigerator when I leave town, so Wednesday and Thursday are going to be simple days, too. I love this week!
Let me just start by saying that anyone who has to do a serious clean-up and organization of any closet less than six months after moving into a house is in need of help, especially if they claim to be a normally organized person. Yes, you can just read me into that sentence.
Since I invaded another closet in this re-do, I'll go ahead and show you before pictures of it too. It's a closet that is in our rec room, a room basically the size of our three-car garage that it is built over. It has a wire hanging closet shelf that the builder put in. I've used it primarily for toy tub storage.
The first thing I did was move the blue tubs down to the basement, then I stacked the four clear tubs on top of each other. I had some stackable shelving that's made for shoes from our old military quarters that we'd been storing in the garage and not using. We'd actually used it to store Buddy's baseball card books on their sides when we lived in Virginia, but we weren't using them now. I pulled them up into the left side of this rec room closet for the majority of Hubby's larger baseball card boxes, and then put some of the odds and ends on the top along with the statuesque little men.
I stacked the vaults, which are longer, in the open floor space between the shelves and the plastic bins on the right side.
After I moved out all the baseball cards, except for two vaults I left on the top shelf, I was able to clean out and organize the rest of my closet. I did not empty the closet out like The Organizing Junkie suggested, but remember I had lived here less than six months!
In the picture above, that's my clothes hamper you see in the far left tucked under my short clothes, and then my little (Ikea) step stool since I'm a shorty. My white duvet cover with my winter weight (Ikea!) duvet are stored up on the top shelf.
The cubbies on the wire rack basically serve as linen closet storage for shampoos, soaps, and hygiene items. Um, because there is no linen closet. You probably already saw my towels up on the shelf in the first picture.
If you close the door, here is where my purse stash is located.
I'm saving up for an Elfa closet system, like maybe in a year or two. But for now, it's clean and I can walk in without stepping on anything, and I like that a lot.
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