RE: Biscuits
Here is something that was cool for chili, a friends wife did this, was on the box or magazine or something.
Using those store-bought biscuits that you lay on the sheets, but take a piece of tin foil and ball it up, about the size of a raquetball. Lay the biscuits over the top, so they are not touching the pan. cook as normal, when your done you turn them over, take out the tin foil ball, and you have biscuits shaped as bowls. Was great for serving the chili in.
--Jim