Baking Powder Biscuits

This is from Betty Crocker Baking Basics

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter or shortening
3/4 cup milk

Heat oven to 450F
In a bowl mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
Cut in butter
add 1/4 cup of milk to mixture and add more if needed until dough becomes a soft, sticky ball.
Knead 8 to 10 times
Roll out to 1/2 inch thick and cut out with 2 1/2 inch round cutter.
Bake until golden brown 10 to 12 minutes.
Serve with Homemade Blueberry Jam

Homemade Blueberry Jam

Delicious, pectin free, fast, blueberry jam!

You want a big pot to make this in, not a sauce pan.

You will need:

About 3 cups of fresh blueberries (I haven't tried this with frozen blueberries yet)
1/2 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup cold water
10 teaspoons cornstarch

Start with washing the blueberries, then put them in the pot. Heat about medium-high and stir continuously, until the berries start to break and they become soupy. Then add 1/2 cup of sugar (Or less if you prefer, or none) and stir that in. Add lemon juice and salt. Mix the cold water and corn starch together, then add to blueberries. Let cook while stirring until it thickens to jelly like. Put in a bowl and put plastic wrap on so that it is touching the blueberry mixture so that it doesn't form a skin. Place in fridge to let cool. Serve with homemade biscuits. Yum! :)

The trick with corn starch is that when it is added to hot or warm liquids it clumps and you eat gross, clumpy cornstarch balls. So what you do, is add it to some cold liquid (like in this recipe) because it is already dissolved and smooth by the time it is added to the hot liquid.

You could also use other berries like, wild berries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries (Just cut them up and remove the green parts). Yum yum.

Easy Peasy Cheating Mousse

This is called cheating mousse because it takes a whole 10 minutes to make!
So I made this up today when I had a craving for chocolate and we just happened to have some ingredients that would help with my craving. So, here is my first recipe on here:

You will need...
1 Box (40g) of Jello Chocolate pudding
1 Package of Dream Whip

First things first, make the one package of Dream whip as according to the box, it should be 1/2 cup of milk and vanilla, then beat until soft peaks.
Next, you want to take the package of pudding and dump it on top of the whip cream and add 3/4 cup of milk then mix all together.
Place in the fridge and wait 5 minutes.

If you want to serve this as a party and make it all nice, refer to my picture. Yes, that is MY picture...

I let it sit in the fridge in the bowl like normal first then put it in a sandwich bag with the corner cut off and that allowed me to make it all pretty in the glass :)
I added some whip cream on top as a garnish, you could also put chocolate shavings or both!
Have fun with this! It's pretty delicious.
You can also use the fat-free pudding to make it slightly less bad for you.
Other types of pudding (Pistachio, lemon, butterscotch, etc.) can be used too!