1 Pan Biscuits & Gravy

This is so good – and agreeably not the most beautiful. It is comforting and comes together so quickly for some egg, puffy biscuits, sausage, and brown butter gravy. It would be cuter in small ramekins or muffin cups.

Biscuits & Gravy Casserole - Baked

1 Pan Biscuits & Gravy
Ingredients (serves 4-6):

~8 sausage links
1 tube biscuits
2 eggs
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup butter
1 cup milk
2/3 cup shredded cheese

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350-degrees.
Cook the sausage until cooked through.
Remove sausage from the pan and add in the butter cooking over medium heat until the butter begins to brown and smell nutty. Add in the flour and cook for a minute. Reduce heat to low and whisk in the milk. Chop the sausage and add it into the gravy. Cook for about 3 minutes.

Chop the biscuits into 4-6 pieces and drop into a greased 9×9 baking dish.
Whisk the eggs and pour over the biscuit pieces.

Spoon the gravy on top.

Cover and bake for 20 minutes. It will puff and bubble up.
Uncover, top with cheese, and bake for another 10 minutes.

Biscuits & Gravy Casserole - Baked

Serve and enjoy! It’s cheesy, saucy, and very savory.

Our little eaters wouldn’t pick for everything to be together so they tried it and there were some leftover sausages and some separate biscuits.

It stored well and was good leftover too!

Apple Cheddar Biscuits

These delights were inspired by my last book – The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks. There was a toursity town of a former author with Star’s Hollow vibes, which centers around a bookshop who can only sell books of the era. Naturally the bookshop worker befriends the cafe worker who sells apple and cheddar biscuits. Voila! They seemed like they had to be huge and conger up the feeling of a coffee shop.

There’s such balance here – sharp white cheddar and crisp apple tip toes on the line of sweet and savory. They’re so good.

Apple & Cheddar Biscuits
Ingredients: (serves 6-8)

2 cups biscuit mix
5 tablespoons butter
2/3 cup white cheddar
1/3 apple (honey crisp or fuji apple) chopped
1 cup milk

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 400-degrees.
Add biscuit mix to a bowl and shred in the butter and the cheese. Chop the apple and add that in.

Stir gently with a fork, then pour in half the milk and mix. Add in the rest of the milk and stir to combine.
Drop spoonfuls onto a baking sheet lined with parchment or silicone mats.
Bake for about 8 minutes until fluffy and golden.

Let cool and enjoy!

The cheese flavor lightly spreads throughout. The apple adds some nice texture.

Breakfast Calzone

{originally published in 2016 and updated in 2025}

This breakfast calzone is easier than it first appears and comes together quickly. Originally I saw a friend from college post a brunch they hosted and this appealed to me. The puff pastry cooks faster than pizza dough for a regular calzone and gives croissant vibes…speaking of, crescent dough would work well too!

Breakfast Calzone
Ingredients: (serves 3-4 as an entree, or 5-6 as part of a brunch spread)
1 sheet puff pastry
4 eggs
4 sausage links (mine were smaller chicken sausage and I used ~6)
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

Directions:
Thaw the puff pastry to room temperature.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
Pan fry the sausage until cooked through over medium-low heat. Let cool on paper towels for any excess drippings.
Whisk together the eggs and cook in the same pan, over medium-low heat. Gently scrambled the eggs with salt and pepper.
Roll out the puff pastry maintaining the square shape and transfer onto a baking mat or parchment – don’t fill it and then try to move it (ask me how I know). Slice the outsides in ~1/2 inch strips a third of the way to the center.
Add the eggs, sausage, cheese to the middle third of the dough all the way to the ends.

Alternate tucking the strips across one another starting on one end and crossing one, then the other side, alternating until 3/4 of the way to the end. Then start at the other end in reverse direction to close it up.

Bake 30 minutes, until crisp and golden brown.

Slice & enjoy!

This was so great. Puff pastry has that buttery crispness that is so perfect for breakfast. I liked the simple and classic flavors though there are 1000 ways to tweak this. I was wishing I sprinkled everything bagel seasoning – next time!

Caprese Quiche

September is an Italian-inspired month here with a quiche full of caprese salad flavors: tomato, basil, and mozzarella. It was light and ideal for breakfast or lunch. I kicked off the month starting with Pizza Burgers and have some other Italian-ish meals.

Caprese Quiche
Ingredients:
(5-6 servings)
pie crust
6 eggs
3/4 cup cream or half & half
1 teaspoon dijon (or 1/2 teaspoon dried mustard)
2-3 tomatoes
~10 basil leaves
1 cup shredded white cheddar
1/2 cup shredded mozzarella
salt & pepper

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350-degrees.
Par-bake the crust in a pie plate with non-stick spray. Bake for ~10 minutes.
While the crust cooks through, whisk together the eggs, cream, mustard, salt & pepper. Slice the tomato and chiffonade the basil.
When the crust comes out of the oven, sprinkle in some of the cheeses first, then layer tomato slices, basil, cheese and repeat to use all the fillings.

Carefully pour in the egg/cream mixture.
Bake the quiche for about 30 minutes until the center sets from giggly to solid.
Remove from the oven and let cool before serving.
Enjoy!

Quiche is something I forget about and then am glad to have. I pop a few slices into the freezer and my future self is grateful for a dinner or lunch.

Breakfast Guacamole with Bagel Chips

We need more dips for breakfast, right?! This is avocado toast turned dip and is perfect. It is fresh! It is filling! It is balanced! It is fun!

Bfast Guacamole
Ingredients: (for 2-3 servings)

2 avocados
1/2 jalapeño pepper
1/4 white onion
1 small tomato
~ 2 tablespoons lime juice
salt & pepper
2 eggs
everything bagel seasoning
bagel chips

Directions:
Boil the eggs for 12 minutes and place them into an ice bath.
Prep the guacamole – chop the avocados, jalapeño, onion, tomato and mix together with lime juice and salt & pepper.

Peal & chop the eggs.
Plate as dip or individually with guacamole and egg and everything seasoning with bagel chips to dip.
Enjoy!

In a hurry? Buy your favorite guac and it will be ready almost instantly!