Homemade buttermilk biscuits and breakfast sausage

[Bamabuzzard]

About a year or so ago I learned how to make buttermilk biscuits from scratch and I'm glad I did! My kids won't touch one from a can anymore.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

I also found a wonderful red beans and rice recipe that I tried several weeks ago. Probably some of the best red beans and rice I've made.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

And somewhere in all of this cooking I enjoyed a glass of Elijah Craig Small Batch.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

You gonna share recipes?

 

[Bamabuzzard]

Red Beans and Rice Recipe


Ingredients:

4 tablespoons olive oil

1 large white onion

1 green bell pepper

2 tablespoons refrigerated minced garlic

2 stalks of celery

2 teaspoons of kosher salt

1 teaspoon dried thyme

1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 teaspoon dried sage

1 tablespoon dried parsley

1 teaspoon Cajun Seasoning

1 tablespoon sugar

1 teaspoon "Better Than Boullion Chicken Base"

1 lb dried red, kidney, or Pinto Beans (I used light red kidney beans)

2 lbs Andouille Sausage or Smoked Sausage

1 SMOKED ham hock

2 Bay leafs

7-8 cups of water/ and Low Sodium Chicken Broth (in the box, not the can)

2-3 cups of minute rice



* Chop (or puree in food processor if your kids have texture issues) onion, celery, and bell pepper.

* Heat olive oil in a pot until hot. Add onion, celery and bell pepper and sauté onions until they are translucent

*Add garlic, kosher salt, cayenne pepper, thyme, parsley, Cajun Seasoning, sugar and chicken base to the saucepan and sauté for approximately 3-5 minutes.

*Add half part water and Low Sodium Chicken Broth to equal 7-8 cups, dried beans, smoked ham hock and the two bay leafs.

*Bring to a boil then turn the heat down to where it is just a low simmer, so it is just barely bubbling.

*Cover, and cook on a "low simmer" for 2 1/2 to 3 hours uncovering the pot for the last hour until beans are soft and beginning to "split" open.

*Remove the ham hock and bay leaf, remove any meat from the bone, chop and add to the pot.

*Add the rice and continue to cook until the texture of the dish has a "creamy" texture. If you need to add more chicken broth for moistness then do so. Add a little more salt and Cajun Season for taste, then serve.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Looks great!

Do you smoke the ham hock yourself, or buy it pre-done?

 

[rolltide_21]

Sausage biscuit with a little mustard on it is my favorite breakfast.I’ve learned from many southern cooks in my life it’s taboo to ask for a biscuit recipe.

Also can biscuits = fake biscuits. Only good for catfishing.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Sausage biscuit with a little mustard on it is my favorite breakfast.I’ve learned from many southern cooks in my life it’s taboo to ask for a biscuit recipe.

Also can biscuits = fake biscuits. Only good for catfishing.

Nah, you can make chicken and dumpling with canned biscuits.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

Looks great!

Do you smoke the ham hock yourself, or buy it pre-done?

No, I buy the ham hock already smoked

 

[CrimsonNagus]

Get rid of the breakfast sausage and subbing in some Conecuh would make it perfect.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

Get rid of the breakfast sausage and subbing in some Conecuh would make it perfect.

I love me some Conecuh sausage, but I'll have to tell you and I know in some places in Alabama this is pure blasphemy, but there are some sausages made in south Louisiana that will make you stop eating Conecuh sausage.

*ducking as bottles are being thrown at me*

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

No such thing as really bad sausage. Wish I could find Conecuh in hot dog lengths.

 

[Blindside17]

Conecuh is really good, especially the Cracked Black Pepper version. Realtree and Zeigler Plantation Style are close seconds though.

 

[BAMAFAN IN NY]

About a year or so ago I learned how to make buttermilk biscuits from scratch and I'm glad I did! My kids won't touch one from a can anymore.


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It took my probably 15 years to figure out how to make biscuits.. I would get them pretty good, but not great. Not to mention my grandfather always made the best biscuits, so I was always comparing mine to his. Eventually, I discovered that the flour matters a lot, and there was no good flour to be found anywhere in NY. Now I order Shawnee flour out of Oklahoma (that’s the brand my grandfather used) now, I would put my biscuits against anybody’s.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

It took my probably 15 years to figure out how to make biscuits.. I would get them pretty good, but not great. Not to mention my grandfather always made the best biscuits, so I was always comparing mine to his. Eventually, I discovered that the flour matters a lot, and there was no good flour to be found anywhere in NY. Now I order Shawnee flour out of Oklahoma (that’s the brand my grandfather used) now, I would put my biscuits against anybody’s.

Another "key" to making good homemade biscuits is to not over knead the dough and DON'T FORGET THE "sawmill" gravy!!!

 

[BAMAFAN IN NY]

Or some fried pork tenderloin

 

[Bamabuzzard]

Or some fried pork tenderloin

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What do you use to form/cut your dough into biscuits? When I first started making homemade biscuits I used a soup can that I had cleaned and taken the label off. Then one morning I got up to make biscuits and couldn't find it (one of the kids had thrown it in the trash) so in a panic, the closest thing I could find to the same size was one of my whiskey glasses. It made a slightly different, better, shape that we all liked more. So now I call them "Whiskey" biscuits.

 

[BAMAFAN IN NY]