Tuesdays with Dorie: Sweet Cream Biscuits Breakfast Style

TWD again! Wow the week sure goes fast! Melissa of Love At First Bite chose Sweet Cream Biscuits. When we have biscuits here (which isn't often), we've got to make them with sausage gravy! I also made them into breakfast sandwiches for the kids, since they are not so big on the gravy.

Do you know I am not a big fan of biscuits? I always think they are dry and get stuck in my mouth, lol. But I do like them when they're hot with butter and honey! These were so good, light and fluffy. Since I made so much gravy (warning it makes lots) I made another batch of biscuits the next morning, only because I wanted another sausage and egg sandwich!

Hot Biscuits with Honey & Butter

Breakfast Biscuit Sandwiches (this was my fave!)

scrambled egg, cheese, sausage pattie, biscuit

Remember Dorie's Sweet Potato biscuits? I loved those! We've also made her buttermilk biscuits before. Go ahead pick any of these recipes, they are all good and easy to make! I bet you'll be having biscuits soon!

Sausage Gravy

found here, makes lots!

1 pound breakfast pork sausage
1 Cup flour
3 Cups milk, warmed
1 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp rubbed sage
Biscuits

Brown sausage in large skillet over medium heat. Drain, reserving 2 TBL of drippings. Place sausage aside. Add reserved drippings to skillet and whisk in flour until blended. Gradually whisk in milk until smooth; add in seasonings (you could add to your liking). Return to heat, until thick (may need to add a little more milk if it becomes too thick). Stir in sausage. Serve with hot biscuits.

Head on over to Melissa's blog, she will have the recipe for you!

*UPDATE: I also forgot to say that I used AP flour & cake flour for mine, as Dorie also mentioned in the recipe. I did also post about how I got them to rise, in the comments below. =)

enjoy,

Tuesdays with Dorie: Sweet Potato Biscuits

Erin of Prudence Pennywise (great blog!) selected Sweet Potato Biscuits for her week at TWD.

From Mommy I'm Hungry

When I first heard of these, i knew I wanted to have them with a roasted chicken dinner. Sweet potatoes/yams are a big weakness in our family, so yay for Thanksgiving coming soon!! I prefer using the fresh yams, but even Dorie suggested canned was fine for these. They were! The flavor was wonderful, they were soft and "dry" like regular biscuits are (and I am not a fan of regular biscuits because of how dry they are). They went great with our roast chicken dinner (recipes to come!). Everyone liked them, yes we all did! They're a keeper, the kind you write "Good!" in the book next to the title. =)

From Mommy I'm Hungry

Dorie said to use two 15 oz cans of yam, but then just use 3/4 -1 C of fresh mashed yams if you had them. I wasn't sure if she was giving 2 different measurements, but I went with 1 C. of mashed canned. I don't think it would've hurt them to use it all though. I opted for nutmeg in these, since I do that for my baked yams.

From Mommy I'm Hungry

You might want to check Erin's post for the recipe, these would be great with Holiday meals and any day!

From Mommy I'm Hungry

From Mommy I'm Hungry

enjoy,

Dorie's (basic) Buttermilk Biscuits

These are biscuits great , served with sausage gravy, as a breakfast sandwich, butter and jam or honey. You can find the recipe here from her Baking: From My Home To Yours cook book.

I went ahead and played around with her recipe as she suggested by using 1 3/4 cups AP flour and 1/3 cup cake flour, a little baking soda and buttermilk. I baked them for about 13 minutes. It's a really easy recipe, and I recommend using a larger cutter (my 2.5" cutter was tiny), they gave us like a 2 bite size biscuit. It gave us 18 biscuits though.

another 2nd hand shop find - aluminum jelly roll sheet! yay!

See these here also!

enjoy,