Breakfasts at our house are, typically, organic fruit followed by proteins like organic bacon and eggs. Today, daughter Heather changed it up: homemade biscuits with Beeler maple extract flavored sausage insde 'em. I don't often rub my tummy and say, "yummy." Today was the exception. Just call 'em awesome! The batch made enough to have them another day…soon.
Here's what she did:.
Sausage: She thoroughly cooked the sausage, drained it, and let it cool.
Biscuits: While the sausage cooled, she made biscuits from a fairly standard buttermilk biscuit recipe. She used butter only and organic flour. Before she could call it done, she had to make...
Buttermilk: Because we aren't buttermilk drinkers, Heather makes her own when recipes call for it. Easy-schmeasy: Add 1 T of vinegar or lemon juice to measuring cup, then fill the cup with regular milk. She used So Delicious coconut milk, which works beautifully well. The buttermilk sat for 5 to 10 minutes, while it "did its thing."
Put it all together: The cooled sausage went into the dough after she added the buttermilk.
Dough-prep tip: Heather pats the biscuit dough onto a baking pan, cuts the biscuits into squares, and separates them slightly. A cooking aficionado once recommended placing the dough fairly close, though not touching, because it helps the biscuits rise a little better and not spread out.
Finishing touches: Before baking, she brushed each biscuit with melted butter, then sprinkled kosher salt and cracked pepper on top.
Bake time.
Blueberry topping: Heather loves updating, changing up, favorite recipes. We'd just bought a container of fresh organic blueberries at our food co-op. When she mentioned how great it would be to add blueberries to the dough next time, I thought, why wait? Let's put 'em on the outside, now!.
She placed one-third to one-half of the blueberries into a saucepan, along with 1 tsp. of sugar and 2 T of water. On medium-low to medium heat, she cooked the berries for about 10 minutes. To make sure the fruit didn't scorch, she hovered nearby, stirring the mixture occasionally. Originally, I'd thought we could macerate the blueberries, but their skins don't lend themselves well to this approach.
Well, you see how today's breakfast turned out. Tummy-rubbing Y-U-M-M-Y!
Heather doesn't often pat herself on the back when she prepares knock-your-socks-off dishes. When I asked her what she thought of these biscuits, she said, "It'll sound arrogant."
"Go ahead," I pushed. "I want to know what you think."
"I think they're awesome!"
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