When our children were younger and living at home with us, I usually fixed big, Saturday morning breakfasts: pancakes or french toast or waffles.  We had TWO waffle-makers, bought at yard sales, so that I could make the waffles faster and keep them hot.

One of our favorite breakfast, though, was biscuits.  With scrambled eggs or fried eggs and bacon or sausage.

Biscuits are delicious . . . mouth-watering . . . melt-in-your-mouth when they are hot out of the oven.  And they are okay the next morning, heated up in the oven or even the microwave.  But, after that, well, you cannot keep biscuits.

So, fixing a batch of biscuits for a family of seven was fun.  I'd mess up the kitchen, but it was worth it.  Now that it is just my husband and me at home, it is hard to think that biscuits are worth all the bother, for just two people.  But I have found a solution.

I mix up a big batch of biscuit dough.

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Then bake four biscuits  to make a nice breakfast for my husband and me.  Then I add extra baking powder and salt to the remaining biscuit dough, roll it out and freeze them.

Then, any morning of the week, we can pull out just how many biscuits we want, thaw them in the microwave and bake them.  And have fresh, hot-out-of-the oven biscuits, without any mess or fuss.