Thank you! Thank you!! ssomerville...I roll one long rectangle, use my bench scraper to cut in half lengthwise, then bang out the triangles. Super fast and easy and consistent! teresa_mn and mustangs...I think the secret is to underbake, which is probably not very scone-like, but I only bake them about 10 minutes...12 max. They are waaaaay too dry if baked the length of time the recipe states. ann_t...they still don't rise like yours! But I'm getting there!! :) maxmom...yes, I use the RLB recipe. I don't use a food processor, just my hands! I use heavy whipping cream. The one thing I started doing after mixing in the cream and chips, dried fruit, whatever...is use my hands to form all the dough and dry bits into a ball (somewhat kneading it and continuing to push it all together) before I put it on the mat to roll. The 4 times roll, fold, repeat builds the layers in the dough. I'm not all that gentle with it, as opposed to biscuits...that I only roll once (no folding, etc) and use TLC! Lastly, I do not brush the tops of the scones (or biscuits). Thank you again all!! :)

Many times. Live just a stone's throw away from N.O. The way to go so that you are not right in the crowd is to book a room way ahead of time at The Bourbon Orleans. That way, you don't have to fight the traffic, crowds, or be mixed with the crazy drunks. You watch it all from a balcony, and talk about a show! New Orleans is an awesome place to visit, but just as any big city, you have to be careful where you go. Lu

Now this may be a total myth, but would a cat LICK the medication off their fur if it ended up there?? Many years ago, had a Dobie who had a litter of 7 pups. She was absolutely inseparable from them for about 3 weeks or so. She wouldn't even go do her thing out in the back yard. We had to walk her on leash to get her out of the house. We coulda walked her a mile from home and she would have been standing at the front door waiting to be let in. Doing all the things a momma dog does for puppies before they can start eating solid food gave her a MAJOR case of the poops! Vet suggested Kaopectate... same dosage as an adult person... something like 6-7 teaspoons a dose! Knowing a spoon would be ridiculous, I came up with a "brilliant" plan... after all I did graduate from college!!;) I measured the Kaopectate into a cup and sucked it all up with a turkey basket, slid it into the side of her mouth (whileI held it closed) and squeezed... genius, right?!? I sat and rubbed her throat a few times and figured she had swallowed. WRONG! The second I let go of her snout, she shook her head and me, the walls and most of the puppies got splattered with the stuff! BUT it worked out well... she licked it all off of them, so got most of the stuff in her. I was SO tempted to dip a few of the puppies in the stuff... but didn't!

I love dreadlocks, don't mind tattoos at all and piercings don't bother me for the most part unless they are extreme. haha they only bother me if I imagine how much pain they may have caused. I am sorry that your friends thought that you wouldn't be hired because of your hair or how you look. If my server had any of those things it would not bother me as long as the person was clean, neat and tidy. Times have changed. I don't know many young people that don't have tatts or piercings and they are all going to need jobs. When my niece was hired 20 years or so ago to work at a day care they made her cover up with a band aid a tiny sun and moon tattoo she had on her ankle. The kids asked more questions about the band aid on her foot and could not have cared less about that tattoo. I also have a nephew with sleeve tattoos on both arms, a few piercings. He was a manager in a grocery store and now a big name box store. My nephew is one the sweetest, nicest guys you would ever want to meet and would go out of his way to help any of the customers but I used to overhear some of the remarks that customers would make along the lines of why would anyone hire him, etc. There is so much more to a person than what they look like, and what decorations they wear or hair styles they have. A potential employer not hiring a person with any of these things might be losing the best employee they may have ever hired.