Goat Cheese Biscuits

I love, love, love Goat Cheese. It is really the one thing that makes it so hard for me to be completely vegan.

I decided to cook up one of my favorite "sick" meals on Monday night, since I was getting over a nasty head cold. Some Amy's 'No-Chicken Noodle Soup' and Goat Cheese Biscuits.

Ingredients: 
2 Cups Flour 
1 tsp Salt
2 ounces Butter (plus a little extra)
2 ounces Goat Cheese
1 cup Buttermilk*
Cast Iron Skillet**

*I don't drink cow milk. Instead I used 1 cup soy milk+juice of 1 lemon and let it sit for about 8-10 minutes. If you don't have buttermilk you can do the same with regular milk as well, or some white vinegar. Easy fix so you don't have to spend money getting buttermilk for one recipe!
**I used my cast iron skillet for this recipe because...I love my cast iron skillet. Although previous times I've made it I've just used a baking sheet. 


The first step is to preheat the oven WITH the cast iron skillet/baking sheet inside. While it's preheating, combine the flour and salt in a big bowl. 


Cut the butter into the flour. I've always ended up cutting my butter outside the flour mixture, and then added it in because I don't have the fancy tool that does it for you. Do the same with the goat cheese. Mix it around good so that all the butter and goat cheese is covered in flour. Then make a little well in the middle of your flour mixture and pour the buttermilk into the center. Mix until everything is good and sticky. 


By now, the oven and preferred baking container should be ready to go. Pop in a little bit of butter so the biscuits don't stick to the pan and then just drop some biscuits down. I don't worry about the shape too much, they taste the same no matter what they look like! 

Right about to go into the oven! 
Bake these puppies for about 15 minutes, or until the tops start to go a little golden brown. You can brush some melted butter on top if you want, I never do because that's just too much butter for my tastes. 

Fresh out of the oven! MMM MMM GOOD! Definitely eat these warm if you can.

The full comfort food meal. Oh so good. 




These biscuits are also really good for breakfast. Warm them up in the microwave, or on the stove and put some jelly on top, very yummy. 

Coconut Rice!

Why have I all of a sudden decided to post in this again? Because I have undertaken a challenge on my private blog to post 100 recipes, and I though "why not update them here as well?"

So, onto the first recipe: Coconut Rice 


Ingredients: 
2 cups Jasmine Rice
2 cups water
1 cup coconut cream*
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 tbsp Sugar

Let me start off by saying that I LOVE jasmine rice in any way, shape, or form. It is by far my favorite kind of rice, and I've been eating a lot of it with my stomach issues as of late. 

The first order of business with Jasmine rice is to rinse it really good. If you don't you'll get more of a sushi rice texture, which is not what we want with this recipe. 

This is my first rinse. It needs to be rinsed until the water is basically clear after you swish it around a few times. 

*I couldn't find coconut cream, so instead I used a bit of coconut milk. But here's the interesting thing. If you've never had coconut milk, it separates inside the can when it's cold so there's this really thick stuff on top (the cream) and more watery stuff on bottom.  You can kind of see where there's the really thick cream on top and the more water stuff under it. So I scooped out that thick stuff and threw away the rest, because I frankly don't know what to do with it...

Then combine all ingredients above in a large saucepan. Bring all this up to a slight boil, and stir just until the sugar dissolves. Then put the stove down to 'low' and let it sit until the liquid is dissolved. The original recipe said 40-45 minutes, but I found mine only needed about 20-25. 

 YUM.














I cooked up some of this that I found at my local whole foods. There were no preparation instructions, but I decided to bake in for about 15 minutes at 350 to get it warm and a little crispy.

 

Dinner is served!!