Scones!

 The scone is a pretty standard part of any coffee shop and is definitely in most any Starbucks. They are usually pretty good but I would prefer to make my own. You get a lot more for your money and I prefer my scones to be a little less sweet and a little more buttery.

I'm sure there is a reason but I have no idea why they are triangles.

Banana Nut Bread! Pure Goodness!

Biscuits!

I am a sucker for a good biscuit. In my experience, the best place to get a biscuit is the south. They know what they are doing. This is a recipe from one of the Junior League Recipe books. I tweeked it a little just because I didn't have all the ingredients but it made a pretty sweet biscuit.
   

It is a super simple recipe:
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
4 tablespoons shortening, I used pork lard just cuz I didn't have any shortening
1 cup milk

You mix the flour, salt, and baking powder together and then put the lard into a food processor and mix until a nice crumb texture.

Then you make a well and pour in the milk and mix it together. It will be a pretty sticky dough. Flour the counter and knead the dough for a few seconds. Then roll out the dough until its about 1/2 inch thick. Then cut out a biscuit cutter or you could do what I did and use the baking powder container as a guide and cut it with a butter knife, but a biscuit cutter is way easier.

Then bake them on a cookie sheet at 450 for 12-15 minutes.

I had these biscuits with butter and jam but they would go great along with dinner. 

Third Times The Charm

I am definitely not alone when I say that pizza is one of my favorite foods. It one of those dishes that most everyone has had and most everyone likes it. It is also something that I have always been afraid to make, just because I had gotten it in my head that anything I made would not be nearly good enough. I decided that if I am making bread I have no business to bake then I might as well try to make pizza. I made the crust the day before. I made enough for six small crusts.
 I put five in the freezer and one in the refrigerator. The next day I took the dough out of the refrigerator and let it sit out and puff up a little for two hours.I then spread it out pretty thin on this disposable pizza pan I bought and the grocery. I set the oven at 550 because that is the highest temperature on my stove. Pizza are supposed to be cooked quickly at very high temperatures. I had made tomatoes sauce a couple days before so I used that for the sauce and about a cup of mozzarella. The first pizza I made I just used mozzarella. This pizza turned out to be very undercooked on the bottom because the disposable pan didn't get hot. It wasn't so great. So I tried again the next day and I mixed some Italian Seasoning in with the cheese. This pizza was better cooked but the cheese lacked salt and didn't taste too much like anything. The third night I mixed in a quarter cup of romano cheese and a little Parmesan and the Italian Seasoning. This time I used my stoneware pan. It was perfect. The crust was perfectly crispy, the cheese was just salty enough and the seasoning gave it a great taste. It was just as good as pizza from a restaurant.