foodie fridays: easy buttermilk bacon biscuits with harissa butter
“Welcome to Foodie Fridays! Delight your senses with our Easy Buttermilk Bacon Biscuits, accompanied by the bold kick of Harissa Butter. This flavorful combination promises a culinary journey that transforms your Friday breakfast into a gourmet experience.”
Mr. B and I have different approaches when it comes to eating.
In fact, it’s one of the few things in our marriage where we simply agree to disagree. Mr. B is of the “sectional eater” kind; he gives each vegetable or potato or meat serving individual attention and eats them in a particular order.
Now, yours truly is of the mix-everything-together-corn-in-my-mashed-potatoes variety. Seriously, is there anything better than grilled corn, mashed potatoes, and gravy mixed together? Instead of yogurt shops, they should have mashed potato shops where you can mix in 100 + flavors! #itcouldhappen
Even though Mr. B won’t be mixing his corn and mashed potatoes anytime soon, I do believe I can get him to mix different cultural foods together. When I think of a buttermilk biscuit my mind instantly heads straight to the South. I don’t know how they do it south of the Mason Dixon line, but they sure know their biscuits. My favorite being buttermilk. So light, fluffy, and buttery, it’s the perfect vehicle to load on your favorite ingredients.
Which is why harissa butter is the perfect side kick to the biscuit. Harissa is a Northern African spiced chili sauce made up a mixture of peppers such as red roasted and Serrano peppers. In Northern Africa they put harissa on everything! So naturally why not mix it with a little butter and put it on a biscuit!
Let me tell you friends, if there were a 12 step program to getting sectional eaters to mix up their foods, this would be step #1. Okay, probably number two because the first step is admitting you have a problem. But nonetheless, these buttermilk biscuits with harissa butter are fool-proof way to get them to mix it up.
Now, about those mashed potato shops…..
As if I didn’t love biscuits enough already! Then you had to go and put BACON in them!
Thanks, Steph! Have a great weekend!
Mashed potato shooooops! They should 200% have those! Piping hot mashed potatoes straight out of a dispenser with every topping ever! Gah! These biscuits look phenomenal and I’m down for the harissa butter too. Lovely, as always!
Yay! So glad you are on board with mashed potato shops:) Thanks, Julia!
You and Mr. B are totally the Me and My Mr. Ben!! He’s a very orderly eater – and I love the “load up a fork with everthing and cram it in” approach. It’s a flavor explosion, yo! Much like these biscuits! Dang gurrllll!
Dude, someday we need to get these fellows together! I smell a sectional eater bromance! xoxo
I would SO eat at mashed potato shops, likely more than once/week. Lightbulb! I think you have a store to open… 😉 These biscuits look amazing, too!
YESSSSS! I’m thinking these potato shops need to be actioned! Thanks, Stephanie!
How have I never had harissa before?!
Gurrrrl, it will become your new best friend! You gotta try it!
Ummmmm, you NEED to make that mashed potato shop happen. I will be there alldayeverydayforeverandever.
Oh and these biscuits? Love!
Alright, I’m on it! Thanks, Stephanie!!
Give me!!
No seriously, I want the biscuits, but I can make those and will! 🙂 What I need from you is the harissa. I cannot find it anywhere up here and it seems so pricy on Amazon. Where do you get it in Denver?
Love these, Lauren!
Tieghan, I grabbed a bottle at Whole Foods. I have a recipe on my site you could try that makes it from scratch!
And yay for snow!!
I’m gonna be one of the first in line when the mashed potato shop opens!!! I’m sometimes an inadvertent section eater….I don’t want to be, and I don’t really think about it, but it happens kind of a lot. Gonna need a giant basket of biscuits with extra harissa butter to snap me out of it!
SA-WEEET!!! Thanks, Kelli!
I love harissa! And mixing my food, so no need to convince me on this one!
LOL! Thanks, Courtney!
I will go in on this mashed potato shop enterprise with you if it comes to fruition. For the record.
And I love this crazy cultural fusion! Harissa is a fave of mine and to spread it all over a buttery flaky fluffy biscuit is a genius move.
Ummm, a mashed potato shop? Genius! I want to invest in that if you ever get it going 🙂 Would you believe I’ve never tried harissa? I’m sure I’m missing out. Gorgeous biscuits!
This is a great mash-up of different cultures. That harissa butter sounds totally epic too.
Bacon is always a good decision. These look amazing!