biscuits n honey

Sift together two cups unbleached white flour, 1 tablespooon baking powder, a pinch of baking soda, and half a teaspoon salt in a bowl. Cut in 1/4 cup cold butter, margarine or bacon fat. Add one cup milk, and mix thoroughly. Add in enough flour, a handful at a time, until you can knead the dough without it sticking too bad to your fingers. Roll out the dough to about 1/2 to 3/4 inch thickness, and using a biscuit cutter, a glass, or a jelly jar lid cut into rounds and place touching in a buttered pan. You should get between 9 and 12 biscuits, depending on how thick the dough and how big the circle. Bake at 375 for 20 minutes, and check. You may need to bake longer, until the top is golden. Cut in half and spread fresh honey on each half.

You can substitute whole wheat for up to half the flour, although I would make it white first then add a bit more wheat next time. You can also add in a tsp of herbs like rosemary or thyme.

I have a little rant tonight, about last night's movie, and the one I watched tonight. I din't want to go to bed angry, so I waited until tonight, when Dave was gone.

In the theater last night, there were 10-I counted out loud-10 commercials. Cars, shoes, soda, and one decent one about family. However, I cut out TV in this house precisely because I did not want the influence of commercialism in our home. I did NOT appreciate paying over 40 dollars for a movie only to have to watch commercials. And of course several of them were making the man look like an idiot.

Next came the previews. First let me say that Narnia looks AWESOME! I cried watching the preview! OMG! I cannot wait until December-I am so excited. Oh, and the fantastic four? So cool!

Anyways, I am there with my children, ages 9 and 14 to see Star Wars, a pg 13 film. While the rating was pg 13, the movie is advertized for kids, at fast food restaurants, toys stores, and on TV. So imagine my disgust when the preview for Mr and Mrs Smith comes on. A story about two secret agents who are married but are unaware that the other is an agent, who are each paid to kill the other. So amid snitches of bullet riddle rooms, explosions and action there are steamy bedroom shots. NOT what I really want my kids to see.

But wait, it gets better. The last movie is the Wedding Crashers. Guess what that movie is about? Two guys who crash weddings so they can con women into sleeping with them. Not only do they show the guys using lines like "I will play mr balloon animal and you dance with the flower girl" but they then show each woman first smiling at the guy, then falling down on a bed in panties and a bra. One girl even said it was her first time, and that she loved the guy.

Now most likely the guys will have a change of heart, admit they were wrong and settle down, but quite frankly I don't care. What were they thinking? I wanted to hold my kid ears and tell them to shut their eyes. They did not need to see that stuff. Why the heck do people wonder at the sexual activity of teens when we have shoved sex down their throats since they were little. I am reading Raising Boys by Dr Dobsen, and he sites that the average kid will be exposed to over 800,000 sexual images per year!

I am afraid to take my kid anywhere!

But then it gets worse. I am home tonight, and the kids want to watch Sky Captain. I hadn't seen it yet. We sit down, and we cannot fast forward through the previews. So we watch them. Now Sky Captain is only PG. Yet the preview for Without a Paddle, rated PG -13 for drug content, sexual material, language, crude humor and some violence. Which they showed something of each on the preview, including three almost naked men trying to keep warm but playing suggestive music to make it look like they were gay.

What is wrong with people? Am I the only one who thinks that if the movie is PG, then only PG previews should be shown? And since when is a woman falling into a con mans bed almost naked, or a wife trying to shoot her husband in the head appropriate for all audiences? These people are not stupid. They know that kids will be at these movies. They suck us in with an appropriate movie then while they have us stuck subject our kids to material which clearly should not have been approved for all audiences.

I refuse to go to that theatre again. I will be writing the company and telling then why, for all the good it will do me. I also will not let my kids watch the previews at home until I have seen them. Is money so important that they are willing to risk our kids? And i do believe that every image makes an impression. I personally think that we have become so immune to the onslaught of television, with the sex, violence and the hard sell that most people cannot see it. But turn off your tv for a year. It is like taking off the blinders. I am so shocked at the audacity of the media now that i am not numbed by it. I am embarrassed that nothing is sacred anymore.