Cream Drop Biscuits

Not food related but I had to post a few pictures from today's game. I took the day off and went to the last regular season home game. We were at the game on Tuesday night and after the Braves lost and the Rockies won, we thought about the possibility of the Rockies clinching a playoff spot at home. We considered going to the game yesterday but we decided to watch it on tv instead. When the Braves lost again and the Rockies won, the Rockies magic number dropped to 1 (meaning Rockies either win 1 game or Braves lose 1 game and the Rockies are in).

Today's win was HUGE. I mean how awesome is it to clinch and celebrate at home instead of on the road? If they had lost today it wouldn't have been over but they were leaving for the last three games in LA, against the Dodgers.

I was getting a little worried especially with the Braves and their recent winning streak. Back in August, the team we were worried about was the Giants but well...they choked. The Rockies had a comfortable lead and we all starting crunching numbers to see how many games the Rockies MUST win in order to make it to the postseason. We compared both teams' schedules and the Braves were definitely facing "easy" to beat teams. We can use all our stats skills and we still could not guarantee the Rockies in the postseason. We knew all too well what happened in 2007. The Rockies were out of the race until they had the ridiculous winning streak in September and won 21 out of 22 games. We were playing the Diamondbacks, we won and for us to tie for the Wildcard, the Padres had to lose. We kept checking the scores and Tony Gwyn Jr (while playing for the Brewers) hit the ball and the Padres ended up losing.

We were back at Coors Field the very next day on October 1, 2007 to watch the NL Wildcard Tie Breaker. I have to say that the Tie Breaker was the best game ever. (I know people still doubt Holliday touching the plate. I honestly don't know. Although we were right off the first base, we were in the suite and too high up to see and they don't replay controversial plays.) That season we were at over 30 games. In the weeks leading up to the postseason, we were at most of the games. I remember Helton's walk-off homerun against the Dodgers. I remember jumping up and hugging a stranger who shared the suite with us. I was so excited.

Rocktober!

Holliday was my favorite player but now he is with the Cardinals. My new favorite player is Tulowitzki. I remember when the 2007 playoff games were televised and the viewers heard the Tulo chant, everyone asked, "what the hell are they chanting at Coors Field?" It is series of hand claps followed by "Tulo."
9th inning and Morales (not Street) is closing. Coors Field was really packed but the top decks were mainly empty because most people on the top deck came down to stand on the concourse.

I know many people wonder why I am a Rockies fan when I am originally from San Diego. The Rockies play the Padres a lot and I root for the Rockies. The bf is from Illinois so he is a long time Cubs fan. He is also a Rockies fan so when they play each other (not too often) he intentionally does not wear any Rockies or Cubs gear.Dinger, our mascot is waving the flag.

Okay now a recipe.

The biscuits are so simple, the person who gave me the recipe said, “they are embarrassingly easy.” I love easy. I love not having to roll or pat any dough into some shape and not having to cut anything out.

After getting home from the game, I wanted to make something really easy but comforting. I’ve been craving a lot of comfort foods lately. The bf said I was making a different version of chicken potpie. (I made chicken potpies on Sunday and still haven’t had a chance to post about it.)

I took the liberty to change my friend’s recipe a bit. Mainly because I wanted to use up three cups of heavy cream but I also wanted a few extra biscuits. I ended up only using 2 cups of heaving cream even though I increased the other ingredients by 1.5 times. That is the thing with flour. Sometimes it absorbs more liquid and other times it absorbs less. I slowly stirred in the cream and after two cups it formed the lumpy dough. An extra cup and I probably would be making calorie-laden pancakes.

Lindsay's Cream Drop Biscuits

2 ½ cups cake flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
2 cups chilled heavy cream

Preheat oven to 400. Sift dry ingredients into a large bowl. Slowly pour in cream and stir until a lumpy dough just forms. Spoon about ¼ cup dough per biscuit onto greased cookie sheet. Bake 12-18 minutes, until tops are just golden brown.

I used:
3 ¼ cups cake flour
1 ½ tablespoons baking powder
1 ½ teaspoon salt
1 ½ tablespoon sugar
2 to 3 cups heavy cream (I used two but it may take up to 3 cups depending on your flour)

¼ cup unsalted butter
2 tablespoons honey

I preheated oven to 400 degrees. I put all the dry ingredients into a bowl but didn't bother sifting. I don't sift. I am an anti-sifter. I slowly pour in heavy cream and stirred. I spooned the dough onto a silicon lined baking sheet and baked until slighly golden.

Not from Lindsay's recipe but I decided to brush them with melted butter and honey. Melt 1/4 cup of butter with 2 tablespoons honey. I use local honey because it is supposed to help with my allergies.

Not the best picture but definitely better than the previous ones. I kept the biscuit and took a picture during the day. I also used my new camera (that I am still learning how to use).