Dieter's Beware!

Wow! What a week! Where to start? I guess it can be summed up easily by saying: I felt funny on Tuesday, I was sick Wednesday and by Thursday, when I finally decided to go to the doctor, I found out that I had a virus… lovely. While I am feeling much better, Julia’s intense cooking regiment took the back burner this week while I focused on getting better, studying for tests, and cheering my frogs to a victory on Saturday! GO TCU! With the limited time, I decided to do an appetizer from the book; one that would take less time and that would be great for the Cowboy game watching party at my house tonight. So, I decided to make cheese biscuits! (I’m not even going to attempt the French name for it.)

This is a great recipe for college students for two reasons: it is incredibly easy to make, and it is incredibly bad for you as well! Instead of making my own dough (because there was no way that was going to happen today), I decided to buy the biscuits and follow the recipe from there. I would be lying if I said that it worked great the first time around; the first few were and epic fail!If you can tell in the pic, that is a brown, crispy, nasty, biscuit!



Using Crisco with butter clearly was not as good of an idea as just sticking to butter! At least the roommates got a good laugh out of it! But after the first fail, I got the hang of it and the rest turned out much better. I began experimenting and putting the cheese on the top of some, and putting it inside some of the other biscuits. They only took a few minutes each and they tasted great.

For the game, I put them all on a platter with three dipping sauces: marinara, ranch, and garlic butter and everyone seemed to really enjoy them during the game. I was happy to find some of the recipes in Julia’s cookbook aren’t as difficult or time consuming as I thought they would be. Again, I used the web, and this website narrowed down some of the confusing details to make it a lot quicker. Overall, another good success!

I’ve learned that it was really important to continue cooking even when the first batch failed. It might have been a waste of a few biscuits but it gave my roommates and me a great laugh. It feels like life is that way sometimes too. Even when things don’t go as planned, if you persevere past the upset, you might find something unexpected along the way. It was nice today to have failed at first; laughing with my roommates in our last year of college was sweet memory I will never forget.