Upcoming Plant Sales
There will be FOUR events in the next few weeks, so mark your calendars and be sure to stop by one (or all!) of them. All proceeds help benefit our local schools. Each of the sales will offer native plants (note that some are not on the Portland Plant List). Please see below for more details about each sale! Fort Vancouver High School Plant Sale: Wednesday, April 24, 8am-6pm, Thursday, April 25, 8am-5pm and Friday, April 26, 8am-4pm Native plants available: Trees: Cascara, Oregon White Oak, Vine Maple, Douglas Fir, Western Hemlock, Western Red Cedar; Shrubs: Mock Orange, Flowering Red Currant, Red Twig Dogwood, Cascade Oregon Grape, Baldhip Rose, Nootka Rose, Douglas Spirea, Thimbleberry , Serviceberry, Red Elderberry, Blue Elderberry, Black Hawthorn, Salmonberry, Golden Currant, Smooth Sumac, Salal; Groundcovers : Western Yarrow, Wild Ginger, Sword Fern, Goldenrod, Blue-Eyed Grass, Soft Fruited Bulrush, Tufted Hair Grass, Oregon Sunshine, Maidenhair Fern, Checkermallow, Sedum Spat
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DeleteThose look delicious! How wonderful to have a brand new stove. I would love to have a new stove/oven. I'm surprised given how much you guys like to cook that you are not already masters of southern biscuits. I think of them as a staple of southern cooking. I used to watch Good Eats, I love Alton! A friend recommended a trick for biscuit-making, which was to freeze the butter and grate it into the flour, rather than cut it in with a pastry cutter or knives. An awful lot of work, and a bit messy. It did make very fluffy biscuits, though.
ReplyDeleteActually, Michael is good at making them but it is hard to juggle everything else going on when we are making a big breakfast (which only happens once or twice per week). This way I can help out. I've not heard that tip before but I will have to try that. This recipe calls for you to incorporate the butter and shortening into the flour mixture with your fingers.
DeleteSame thing happened to my stove. Igniter went out. I liked stoves better when they didn't use electricity because when the power went out you could still use the oven. World would be a better place if we all ate fresh biscuits slathered in melting butter.
ReplyDeleteOh, for sizing use a can open at both ends, frozen orange juice concentrate, standard 15 or 16 oz, tuna can, whatever size you like
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DeleteThe biscuits look perfect.
ReplyDeleteMy husband's grandmother made excellent biscuits but never taught anyone her recipe, although I'm not sure she could have because she never measured anything. It's a good thing other people have saved or re-developed the recipes!