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| Country Benedict |
We went out to brunch recently at a restaurant in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago called
Tweet. We waited eons, so I had to re-feed the meter. It's also cash only, so we had to run to an ATM mid-meal, but it was worth it. One of the specials on the menu was the "Country Benedict" which was basically a biscuit cut in half with a poached egg and sausage patty on each half, smothered in sausage gravy. My boyfriend proclaimed it as the best thing ever, and wanted to perfect it for "home use" and make it forever. This weekend, we decided to try it.
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| Rolling out the dough |
I used Mark Bittman's recipe from
How to Cook Everything for yogurt biscuits (as a variation on buttermilk). I'm coming to realize that I can get by on 3 forms of dairy most of the time - butter, milk & plain yogurt. And if I perfect my yogurt making skills (I failed miserably because my house was too cold), milk and butter will suffice. Also, this was the first time I've ever made biscuits from scratch, so I decided to ask the experts in "making biscuits" - my cats. Too bad their paws are so small.
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| Fully baked |
For the sausage gravy, I consulted allrecipes.com and pulled up
this. As for the eggs and sausage patties, I only made one set for each of us because I wasn't really thinking, but it was plenty of food.
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| It's all gravy |
I didn't weigh out my food, but relied on this
trusty website to assist my with measuring cup to weight conversion.
Here's the breakdown, tax included:
2 cups ALDI flour // 8.8 oz @ $0.02/oz = $0.18
1 tsp Morton's Kosher salt // 0.22 oz @ $0.06/oz = $0.01
3 tsp Rumford baking powder // 0.4 oz @ $0.27/oz = $0.11
1 tsp Arm & Hammer baking soda // 0.15 oz @ $0.04/oz = $0.01
4 tbs ALDI butter // 2.02 oz @ $0.15/oz = $0.30
3/4 cup + 2 tbsp ALDI Non-fat plain yogurt // 3.72 oz @ $0.05/oz = $0.19
2 Trader Joe's eggs // 2 eggs @ $0.10/ea = $0.20
1/2 lb ALDI bulk pork sausage // 8 oz @ $0.13/oz = $1.04
2 cups ALDI whole milk // 16 oz @ $0.02/oz = $0.32
3 tablespoons ALDI flour // 0.83 oz @ $0.02/oz = $0.02
1 tablespoon ALDI salted butter // 0.53 oz @ $0.15/oz = $0.08
Total of meal that two people shouldn't eat all of, but did anyway...$2.45
This dish for one was $10 at Tweet, including tax and tip, that comes to $13.20. This is why I can't go out to eat ever anymore.
It's really hard not to snack on biscuits on a lazy Saturday. Just saying...
there's a recipe for doing something with leftover biscuits in the Rhodes family cookbook
ReplyDeleteIf you're really hardcore, you can buy whole cream for which there are tons of uses, and when you need butter, put about 1/4 cup in a small tupperware and Shake, Shake Shake (with a tiny pinch of salt) for homemade butter. It's a trick my wife did to impress the kids she used to nanny for, but now I do it because it makes nice butter.
ReplyDeleteI've actually tried that in a mason jar, and it made a nice fluffy-type whipped butter. My directions said that the buttermilk would separate from the butter, but that never happened. Did it separate for you? Does it work well in recipes that might require a certain consistency? I like adding cream to vegetable purees, but yogurt is a little better on the waist line.
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