I know the easiest biscuit recipe, which is James Beard's:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar (you may want less sugar for plain biscuits and more for shortcake)
1 to 1 1/2 cups heavy cream

Preheat the oven to 425.

Mix dry ingredients. Fold in cream, starting with 1 cup, until dough is easily handled.

Knead lightly on floured surface. Drop on cookie sheet or pat out dough and cut with cutter or into squares.

(James Beard suggests dipping biscuits in melted butter.)

Bake until golden, 12 to 15 minutes

I am a big fan of drop biscuits.

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I made a squash quesadilla for dinner, using a sweet dumpling squash, gorgonzola, the last of the arugula, and some heirloom tomato.

Yum. I was just thinking yesterday somebody could make good money with a corner quesadilla stand, but I wasn't thinking of anything so scrumptious.

You know how sometimes a good sandwich on whole grain bread can be so satisfying? Well that's what I had for lunch. Picked the last bits of meat off the roast chicken carcass, then had it with slices of heirloom tomato (very tasty) and lettuce with some mayo.

Otherwise we ate nectarines all day. They were good.

Strawberries: A pint Leave 'em on the counter the afternoon before you make it if you can. Hull and slice, dump in sugar to taste (I use about 1/8 of a cup). Put in blender, add a wee slug of Gran Marnier, hit pulse 2, maybe three times for 1 second each. You want it chuncky

I put it on store bought pound cake, and add whipped cream made with a wee amount of sugar and a couple of shakes of cinnamon, capful of real vanilla extract.

But I've eaten it without the pound cake, with just the whipped cream, or sans whipped cream, over ice cream.

I had a salad with sliced portobello mushrooms, red peppers, tomato and dried cranberries, with a feta-balsalmic vinaigrette.

But that was lunch, and I think I'm just gonna have a couple of frozen burritos now. I'm kinda tired.

I'm skipping ahead because I open up the New York Times today and not only saw my good friend from college, she was standing next to Michelle Obama.

I knew she was doing an event but it's cool to see such a great photo.

I put it on store bought pound cake, and add whipped cream made with a wee amount of sugar and a couple of shakes of cinnamon, capful of real vanilla extract.

I considered something like that, but the only pound cake and angel food cake around here is crap, unless one goes to the froo froo store.

I made yummy chicken for dinner in the slow cooker. Sans actual recipe even! Chicken thighs, garbonzo beans, cashews, olives, lemon, broth, and some spices: cumin, turmeric, and cinnamon I think. Anyway, yum.

Now I am feeling all sated, although I would happily follow it up with strawberry shortcake.

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I had a nast instameal from target for lunch (omg, salt! but was that hungry) and for dinner? Froz nanner-soymilk and sugarfree chocolate milkshake. And this is with a fridge full of spinach empanadas, mixed fresh spinach and mesclun, white nectarines, teeny tomatoes and a loaf of savory-sweet chile bread. What can I say, I was so hungry I didn't want to waste the good stuff (not counting the milkshake.)

Floors are vacuumed and mopped, toilet no longer resembles a frat house nightmare (note: this is not due to me or my bodily functions. My pipes to the upstairs are nearly 80 years old and iron, hence rust, which results in a gross looking orange film in the bowl after about a week. I clean the tank every 3 months or so, but the pipes, they still rust.)