A couple of months ago, I was seeing twice-baked potatoes everywhere. After seeing it in yet another magazine one day, I decided to make a couple for dinner. You could get very creative with the filling but knowing my family, I made classic bacon-cheddar ones with scallions, and those potatoes turned out to be a big hit! So I've been making twice-baked potatoes with some regularity recently. When your little one makes a request for something you cook, you can't help but want to comply.
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| Easy breakfast (or anytime) biscuits with cheddar, bacon, and scallions baked in a muffin tin |
I really shouldn't have been so surprised those potatoes were such a hit. The little guy loves bacon; if you ask him, everything really is better with bacon (particularly, pancakes and eggs). Because of that, I usually have some center cut bacon in the fridge or freezer and a few crispy slices often find their way onto our weekend breakfast table. It always makes me think about my own earlier obsession with bacon-egg sandwiches. In more recent years, I've switched over to ham but I'm getting reacquainted with bacon again.
So it was the somewhat-surprising hit of those bacon and cheddar twice-baked potatoes that had me making these biscuits. I figured it was a safe bet that the fellas would enjoy the same flavors in biscuit form and sure enough, I was right!
To me, just hearing "biscuits" makes me think something delicious is coming my way. And, well, if you like cheddar cheese and bacon, you know the salty, sharp flavor these biscuits promise to provide. To the mix, I added some sliced scallions. I think cheddar and bacon just begs for something in the onion family to balance it out. I used mild scallions/green onions but whether it be chives, leeks, shallots, or regular onions, I enjoy that combination. Even the little guy enjoys his biscuits (and twice-baked potatoes) with scallions in the mix.
I've really been getting familiar with the simple recipes in my Sweet Paul book. These biscuits are another adaptation of a recipe I saw in the book. I turned his morning biscuits with cheddar, dill and pumpkin seeds into this rather more mundane, but still very delicious, cheddar-bacon-scallion rendition. Once you cook the bacon and shred the cheese, the dough is simple to put together. I like baking these biscuits in a muffin tin...you get nice crusty, cheesy edges all round.
These biscuits are a nice treat to make for Sunday morning breakfast. That's what I did, serving them with some easy-over eggs. Instead of morning biscuits, these would be equally great alongside a bowl of soup or chili, or with a crisp salad.
