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!

Chorizo Eggs Benedict

I’m using the “benedict” term loosely – queso is in place of a hollandaise but these still have English muffins + meat + egg + sauce so they are very much like a benedict.

The Three Bite Rule - Chorizo Eggs Benedict

These make a great dinner in case you aren’t having leisurely brunch. Me! I’m not having lots of slow morning meals! This was lunch and I’m sure I’ll make again as dinner!

Chorizo Eggs Benedict
Ingredients: (for 2 servings)

1/2 pound chorizo without casing
2 English muffins
4 eggs
1/3 cup queso sauce

Directions:
Pan fry the chorizo until cooked through, then drain.
Toast the English muffins.
Warm the queso.
Warm a pan to medium heat for the eggs. Cook sunny-side up, or over easy, or poach them, as you like.
Spread a teaspoon of queso to each English muffin, then top with chorizo and eggs as soon as the eggs are cooked. Sprinkle with salt & pepper.

Spoon on the remaining warmed queso to the very top.
Enjoy!

We are mild-medium spice people at our house so these were fun and not too spicy for us. Make your own chorizo to really control the spice level – season ground pork with paprika, chili, garlic, oregano, cumin, and cinnamon as you like.

The Three Bite Rule - Chorizo Eggs Benedict

I’d definitely have these again as this was the easy way to do so. Another way to level- up would be to melt some pepper jack cheese and actually make hollandaise.

Breakfast Crunchwrap

This is such a fun breakfast and the format is the nudge to Taco Bell’s version. The filling is bacon, eggs, cheese, and nacho chips!

The Three Bite Rule - Bfast Crunchwrap

Fill with beans, or sausage, or avocado, or whatever fillings you like!

Breakfast Crunchwrap
Ingredients: (for 2)

2 burrito sized flour tortillas
1 cup shredded cheese (white cheddar and mild cheddar)
2 eggs (scrambled eggs & everything bagel seasoning)
2 tablespoons salsa
4 strips of bacon crumbled
~8 nacho flavored chips

Directions:
Scramble the eggs until cooked through, but not dried out. Sprinkle with everything bagel seasoning, if desired.

The Three Bite Rule - Bfast Crunchwrap

Assemble the crunchwrap with the tortilla, cheese, eggs, bacon, a spoonful of salsa & hot sauce, chips, and extra cheese. Leave plenty of space around the outside.

The Three Bite Rule - Bfast Crunchwrap

Warm a pan to medium heat with a drizzle of oil.
Carefully fold the outside edges inward, working your folds around hanging onto the beginning. Gently put the crunchwrap face down and let crisp for ~2-3 minutes. Then flip to cook on the other side for another 2-3 minutes.

The Three Bite Rule - Bfast Crunchwrap

Enjoy! Serve with extra salsa on the side.

The Three Bite Rule - Bfast Crunchwrap

I loved this! The chips in this are such a pop of flavor and great texture.

If the folding around feels daunting, these could definitely be formed like a burrito. They won’t freeze well with the chips, but I’ll make them again.