When I was growing up, we pretty much always had a home-cooked dinner. No matter where we lived (Dad was in the Army), the States, Spain, or Germany, we always had a commissary nearby, and, thus, Bisquick, which makes for some quite yummy pancakes.
For dinner, every now and then, Mom would make these incredible biscuits from scratch - okay it was Bisquick, but they sure were good. She'd roll the dough out and use an empty "bits o' BACON" can - one end of which she ingeniously cut off by putting it in the electric opener sideways - to cut out the biscuits. The bacon bits, by the way, were "100% REAL," but with wholesome stuff like sodium phosphates, sodium erythorbate, and sodium nitrite added. After pulling out all the thick circles of dough, she'd take the hole-y framework, mash it all together, and put the red-headed biscuit stepchild - that misshapen item of worship, calls of "dibs," and cries of "it's my turn!" - on the cookie sheet with its perfectly formed biscuit brethren.
Now to this day, I don't know why - I mean it was made from the exact same stuff as those "nice" biscuits - but oh, how important it was for my sister and me to get the big biscuit. Most of these times, my lucky brother was either not yet born or too young to take part in our culinary immaturity.
Speaking of culinary immaturity, I used to put peanut butter and jelly on my hot dogs when I was young. I probably only did it a half-dozen times when I was six or seven, and then just to gross my sister out, but I still get teased for it. That and the "caution mower."
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When I was a kid, toward the middle of the previous century, when there were no tortillas to make bean burritos, we would use hot cakes to make bean burritos... yum! Carlos
Classic... this is the fron page story on CNN.com:
The guards called their prisoner "Vic," and let him plant a little garden near his cell. The rest of the world knew him as Saddam Hussein, the man blamed for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis during his years as president. CNN has exclusive video of Hussein's Baghdad cell that shows how he lived in the days before his execution in December 2006.
Jeff
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