You've gone and made me hungry and it's almost time for bed. I'll be eating biscuits and gravy tomorrow for breakfast!

Good fluffy biscuits are pretty easy if you you follow the 'less is better' rule when mixing. It's just like pie crust. Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl then pour all of the wet ingredients in at the same time and mix only until the dry ingredients are mixed together then stop mixing! For some reason they never tell you that in cook books but it's pretty important if you don't want hard biscuits.

Neither my best friend and my mother never learned to cook at home and had to learn all the tricks after they left home. Because my mother never became fond of it we learned young and then each had turns every week so my mom could not have to do it so often. It may have saved her the effort but it was a huge benefit to us in the long run. We learned to read recipes and to follow directions. My mom still hates spaghetti though because (as it was the easiest thing to cook) it was cooked a lot.