Today I spent some time with cygwin. I’d say it’s a great attempt at putting unix stuff in Windows, but it’s far from perfect. The tool for installing it and adding packages is neat, but I ended up with some version problems after I installed screen and irssi. screen and irssi started up fine, which was pretty neat to watch for a few minutes, but when I detatched from the screen I couldn’t get it back, then I started up links, quit links, and my screen session died. Hmm. Strange things. I suppose if I were willing to devote more time to understanding how it all worked I would be happier with it, but right now it’s not terribly important.
I got into a conversation recently about how good those horribly buttery biscuits from KFC were, and decided to do some googling to find out of there were recipes out there to make similar ones. There are all sorts of recipes out there for “Fake KFC Biscuits” so I was looking through them, until I found this KFC Press Release, which is about a book released that had recipes of all sorts of “top secret recipes” and the article includes a recipe for making “Kentucky Biscuits.” I figured from how basic the recipe was that it was not the real KFC biscuit recipe, but it seemed basic enough to give a try.
Well they definately weren’t KFC biscuits, but they were pretty good! And all that I needed to make them was flour, salt, sugar, baking powder, milk and vegetable shortening. So I figure I made 9 biscuits for about 25 cents. It’s not too much work to make the dough either, just mix all the stuff together and knead it for a few minutes, flatten the dough out and cut out the biscuits. Oh and they are heart shaped because I don’t have biscuit cutters, just cooking cutters, hehe. Yum yum biscuits.