Recipe entirely of packaged items!

Cambells Chicken and white wine condensed soup makes a great carbonara. We all loved it in this house.

Thank you Iamaround! The recipe is very like the UK scones recipes. You’ve thrown up another question, though. You can buy them in packets??

This thread has solved a puzzle for me 🙂
What is an American biscuit.
Thank you everyone.

I remember years ago DH and I were in Texas and a meal came of meatloaf and mash. with what we thought were scones. We asked for some butter and proceeded to put it on the ‘scones’. We thought the diner had gone quiet and when we looked round, everyone was watching us. It was explained that they were to be dipped in the gravy of the meatloaf.

Summerlove

Frozen veg in a lot of cases is actually incredibly healthy. It tends to retain more vitamins from the freezing process, then fresh at times.

No waste and if you buy supermarket own label very good value. I have to admit I draw the line at frozen carrots, they never taste right to me.

Summerlove

Frozen veg in a lot of cases is actually incredibly healthy. It tends to retain more vitamins from the freezing process, then fresh at times.

Yes, picked, frozen and packed very quickly and hasn't been sitting on supermarket shelves.

Mind you, I'm picking, cutting, blanching and freezing some of our own at the moment.

They can be made different ways. Some prefer a crumbly texture, others a more flaky texture. They can be made with butter or shortening. They are soft all the way through.

The flavor, on my opinion, is a neutral. It can be made savory, as in the case of the gravy, or it can be made to eat sweet, with butter and a cinnamon sugar sprinkle or preserves.

Food tastes in the US is very regional. Biscuits are seen as a Southern dish, though eaten everywhere. Southern food is typically heavily laden with fats such as butter and cheese.

We do use a lot of processed goods here, which stinks. But that is they way our system has been set up since the 80s at least. I try to avoid them as much as possible, but it is hard because that is almost all that is available to us from the giant corporations that fill out grocery stores.

Grandmabatty

I used to make a chicken and mushroom casserole that used a tin of Campbell's condensed mushroom soup as the basis of the sauce (with added cream). It tasted really nice. And that was a very long time ago

Yes, I was just thinking of that when I read the thread, GrandmaBatty.
I used to make that too.

I love the captions that come with these recipes, "busy young mum of 8" (she looks about 1 7) or "my grandma taught me this"
They always seem to use a ton of cheese.🙄

imaround

sugarspunrun.com/easy-homemade-biscuits/

So biscuits are savoury scones as with a cobbler. Interesting that the method doesn’t mention working the butter into the flour ‘by hand’to produce the texture of breadcrumbs, and that it involves folding the dough over itself as with flaky pastry, I imagine in this case the butter used is more than in English scones.
Could be tasty, will give it a go.

I agree re- frozen veg. I always have a bag of broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and peas in the freezer. Wouldn’t be without it.

sugarspunrun.com/easy-homemade-biscuits/

A biscuit in the US is like bread. Here is a recipe that shows how to make them.

We often use them for a breakfast dish called biscuits and sausage gravy. We use a pork breakfast sausage to make a white gravy.

I always have a tin of condensed soup in my larder. It comes in handy for a quick chicken casserole or to add to some pasta dishes. I tend to buy the mushroom one or chicken.

Now, I like cornbread! I don’t know what the US biscuits are as I’ve never chosen them on a menu and they have never featured in any of the many meals we’ve eaten at people’s houses. That could be because apart from S California we’ve only visited further north.

I love a condensed soup for cooking up things.

Nowt wrong with frozen vegetables.

I was watching (I think the same recipe) video on Facebook: I think all the ingredients you described were mixed on a bed of tortillas but it went on too long and I didn’t watch the end🫣 I don’t recall any ‘biscuits’ though I may have missed that bit!

I could be wrong but I think the US ‘biscuits’ with gravy are more a thing in southern states, where they also have ‘grits’, whatever that is. And cornbread is usually served with a roast dinner, but I think that is common throughout the US.
Am sure the reason they call biscuits ‘cookies’ is so they don’t mix them up.

*than

Frozen veg in a lot of cases is actually incredibly healthy. It tends to retain more vitamins from the freezing process, then fresh at times.

I know they’re packaged but frozen vegetables are very healthy. No additives and often less wasteful than fresh. An excellent standby.

Mt61

They are horrible those American biscuits, taste like farleys rusks.
I thought I was getting a fancy biscuit, like here. They are cookies over there.

I love Farley’s rusks! Always have to resist temptation in the supermarket. But American ‘biscuits’ are AFAIK savoury, not sweet.

I saw this video , Witzend and thought it looks revolting!

Is it a bit like having roast beef and yorkshire puddings?