2 Biscuit Day...

Today, December 23rd is one of those days...in fact, the first we've had since we arrived in Rodanthe over a week ago.

But I'm OK with that...after 7 days and nights of constant "surfing" playing in the background, believe I am starting to get into the rhythm of the beach!

So with the light drizzle on the window pane, it was an easy decision to start the third pot and light up the propane.





Now, the Fox is really starting to feel like home.  But even after 3 months of full timing, we are still reminded of some nearly insurmountable challenges.  One was needing a clothes washer, which is resolved. 

The other is the propane oven...

First, we have to keep one of those mechanical matches handy to light the pilot...and oddly, the broiler is on the bottom...

and worst of all - the oven will not hold a 16" pizza pan...

That alone is nearly a deal breaker!!! 





And we loves us some homemade buttermilk biscuits...hot from the oven...spread thick with butter...then honey or apple butter dolloped on top for good measure! 

And nothing makes those biscuits better than WhiteLily flour which we seem to find only at Harry-Tweeters in North Carolina.

In fact, I can neither confirm nor deny that sometime in the past, we "may" have smuggled 30 pounds of WhiteLily flour north, across the Mason-Dixon line...




So with great misgiving, I lit up the propane oven this morning to create our first batch of buttermilk biscuits in the Fox.

And after 20 minutes in that 400 degree propane oven, my fears were realized...

Uggg, those were some scary, pale, lily white looking biscuits!!! 




Now Judy, my ever loving sweetheart of 43 years sent this to me recently.

And I am not certain what she meant by doing that... (seems she might not hear voices :) 













But today, those voices were finally redeemed!

"...Hey Dummy, the broiler...use the broiler!..."

And so, after taking wise counsel, a couple minutes with that Griswold under the broiler - did - result in some of these gooood WhiteLily buttermilk biscuits...

Whooo, in fact so good, we made it it a 2 biscuit day! 

So maybe, just maybe, we can learn to live with the little propane oven...

And maybe, just maybe, there might be something missing for those people that - don't - hear the voices :) 





...And, ya know, it didn't really seem to matter that it was a rainy Monday morning at the beach after all...

Let the adventure continue...