Coals to Newcastle

Just as Newcastle on Tyne in England was well known for coal mining and the UK's first coal exporting port, my Mother is world renown (in my mind) for her biscuits.

A very good friend gave us some homemade peach and strawberry jam Saturday night and yesterday morning I was required by law to make biscuits to go with the jams for breakfast. Although it was my first attempt ever to make them from "scratch" they turned out better that expected. Not as good as Mother's of course, but better that the hockey pucks my wife had envisioned. In fact wanting to share my new found talent as gourmet cook I humbly "carried coals to Newcastle" by taking Mother some along with a taste of the new jams.

Her call late yesterday informed me that she had them for supper and praised my culinary attempt bragging about how good they were. Since she has not done a lot of cooking recently there was nothing to compare them to though. Actually I know she would have been gracious and complimentary even if they had turned out like hockey pucks because that's what good Mothers do.

I'm Just Saying - You don't have to make world class biscuits for your Mother to love you!