Bacon Cheddar Jalapeno Pepper Biscuits

I was craving biscuits to go with my homemade classic chicken noodle soup. Going through my fridge I looked to see what I had on hand. I'm not the best biscuit maker so I looked to the internet for some help. I found a great recipe at Williams and Sonoma and tweaked it just a bit. The original recipe can be found here: http://www.williams-sonoma.com/recipe/cheddar-bacon-biscuits2.html


Here is how I made them just a little different:

4 slices of bacon
1 jalapeno pepper
1 tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped
2 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 teaspoons sugar
1 stick cold butter
3/4 cup cheddar cheese (shredded)
1/4 cup Pecorino Romano Cheese
3/4 milk plus 2 tablespoons vinegar

Preheat oven to 425

I didn't have buttermilk on hand so I mixed 3/4 cup of milk with 2 tablespoons vinegar. Mix it and set aside.
Cook the bacon, transfer to a paper towel and set aside. Reserve the bacon grease, leaving just 1 tablespoon left in the pan. Once the bacon is cooled break it up in tiny bits. Cut up the pepper and cook it in the bacon grease just until fragrant. Remove from pan and set aside.

Mix together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Using a pastry blender or your hands work well too, cut the cold butter into the flour. If using your hands, be sure to cut the butter up into pea size pieces before adding to the flour mixture. Blend well until small pea size pieces form.

Next add in the bacon, cheeses, jalapeno, fresh parsley and buttermilk just until the dough comes together.

Roll the dough out onto a floured surface into a rectangle. Fold the dough over adding more flour if needed and roll out into another rectangle. Using a biscuit cutter or the opening of a small glass dipped in flour cut out biscuits. Repeat the rolling and folding process to get 12 biscuits. Brush the reserved bacon grease on the tops of the biscuits. Place the biscuits on a greased cookie sheet and bake for 20-25 minutes. Mine were perfect after 20 so just be sure to check. Once a toothpick comes out clean from the center you are good to go.

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