Dinner in a Pinch

I'm participating in this week's Works-For-Me-Wednesday: The What-Do-I-Fix? Edition because I've experienced this scenario so often in my almost-16-years of marriage:

"The day has been crazy, ... laundry is piled high, you've been too busy to get to the store, 5:15 rolls around, and your in-home cook hasn't shown up yet. That's when you remember that you don't have an in-home cook, and feeding that rag-tag bunch is somehow your responsibility." What do you do?

Our standard Dinner in a Pinch idea is ... Breakfast!

We usually have eggs in the fridge, and they can be scrambled (the fastest & easiest plan) or fried or made into omlets with various and sundry herbs and/or cheese and/or leftover meat or just plain ol' egg omlets.

We often have bacon, and even when there's only three or four pieces left, we cut them in half and fry and serve the half pieces.

It certainly happens, but it's rare that we don't have the three ingredients for Granny's Biscuits:

2 c. self-rising flour (which can be made by mixing 2 c. all-purpose flour with 3 tsp. baking powder and 1 tsp. salt)
1/4 c. shortening
1 c. milk

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
Pour milk & shortening into large bowl.
Cut shortening into smaller pieces with edge of spoon or pastry cutter.
Add flour to make sticky dough.
Turn dough onto floured surface.
Knead the dough just a bit, working in some excess flour.
I divide the dough into fourths, then shape three biscuits from each section.
Place in single layer of greased baking dish.
Top each biscuit with a bit of butter.
Cook 12-15 minutes or so at 450.
Makes 12.

They look like this:

We usually have jelly or lemon curd or pancake syrup to serve with them. We've also served them with sausage patties for sausage biscuits.

There are times when we're out of everything, and I openly admit that we're not above calling Mr. Knightley on his cell phone and asking him to pick up something from a drive-through on his way home.

But breakfast is cheaper.