Lately, my husband and I have been in a bit of a breakfast rut. I’ve come close to the breaking point with french toast, if only it weren’t so versatile. And while french toast is quite tasty, it’s rather boring to photograph week after week.
So this week, I decided to try something different. Only problem, the weather has gone from temperate and almost enjoyable, to “I’ve just set foot on the sun” hot. Cooking in my house isn’t the most fun thing to do during those days, so I’ve got to make everything at night for the next day, because its much cooler at night.
This is exactly the case when it came to breakfast yesterday. Expecting another hot day, I decided I would make breakfast the night before, store it in the fridge, and just assemble it, heat it up and serve it. I knew this would also be a great time to break our cycle of french toast for breakfast, but since my husband still enjoys nice hearty breakfasts- We ended up with buttermilk biscuit breakfast sandwiches.
They’re simple, they’re easy, and they’re so much better for you than the kind you pick up at the neighbourhood fast food joint.
The night before, I made the biscuits and the bacon, and since I’m not a fan of reheated eggs, I made those just before serving, threw a little slice of cheese on top of it all, and voila- Breakfast on a biscuit!
My recipe for buttermilk biscuits-
2 cups flour
1/2 Teaspoon salt
1/4 Teaspoon baking soda
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1/2 Cup butter
1 cup buttermilk
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F,.
Sift dry ingredients together.
Mix in shortening with pastry blender, fork, or fingertips until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
Form a well in center of flour and pour buttermilk in.
Mix flour into this, stirring and working until flour leaves sides of bowl and forms a ball.
When it comes away from sides without sticking too bad, it’s ready.
Otherwise, work in a little more flour.
Place dough on floured surface and knead 5-6 times.
Do not knead too much or dough will become tough.
Roll or pat out to about 1/2″ thickness and cut with biscuit cutter or floured glass.
Place biscuits on ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake at 450 degrees F. for 8-12 minutes or until light golden.
Brush tops with melted butter, if desiredAnd I’ll let you in on a fabulous breakfast making tip.I always bake my bacon in the oven. Its so much less messy, it frees up valuable stovetop space for things like frying potatoes or boiling eggs, and you end up with more evenly cooked, flat slices of delicious bacon that are much less greasy than their stove cooked counterparts.Just get yourself a jelly roll pan or cookie sheet with a lip on it and set a wire cookie cooling rack inside of it. Lay your bacon on the wire rack on top of the jelly roll pan and bake at a low temperature, like 300 degrees Fahrenheit, for about 15-20 minutes, or until the bacon is done. The wire rack will keep the bacon from absorbing all the grease that bakes out of it, and the even heat distribution that the oven provides will allow the bacon to cook flat, instead of bubbling up like stove top bacon does.
-A.
So tell me, what is your favourite Make ahead breakfast?
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May 13th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Oh my, that looks so lovely. I’ve never made any “make ahead” breakfasts before! Well, maybe my granola, yogurt and frozen berries mix that I throw together before going to work might count.. the berries thaw out by the time I eat the mix at my desk ;-)
May 21st, 2007 at 7:28 am
The biscuits look great! I also wondered why the bacon looked flat. Cooking bacon in the oven sounds like a good idea, but does it not make a real mess in the oven? After all cooking bacon on the stove can even be messy with flying fat forcing folks to live by the sensible motto…, “Never cook bacon naked.”
May 10th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Thank you so much for that lovely biscuit recipe. It was so easy and had a wonderful crispy outside and soft inside. We made it with a sausage gravy and the biscuits were a show-stealer.
Next up: buy a waffle iron and make those awesome breakfast sandwiches posted on your site!