This is one of my sisters, taking on a new recipe with her niece.
She brought Baked: New Frontiers in Baking with her on vacation and they tried the chipolte cheddar biscuits out. My sister began with a caveat "I'm not a calm cook like your mom, okay?" Then proceeded to test my daughter's full range of skills, from measuring to mixing to grating.
My son popped in for a few minutes to see how things were going, and to see my new favorite ingredient: chipolte pepper powder! If you've ever had those leftover cans of chipolte peppers and sauce, this is for you! I can never use an entire can, and I've frozen the leftovers for "later" but "later" is buried somewhere in the back of my freezer with those ziplocs!
They put together a huge batch of biscuits that didn't last much past the morning breakfast rush.
The chipolte powder made these flavorful without being too hot - even the kids enjoyed eating them. In fact, my daughter's only complaint was that they had too much cheese in them.
We sampled a few other things from that cookbook, and when I got home, I had the local bookstore order me a copy! Can't wait to make some more of those here.
Thanks, sis!
