Biscuit Meals
EXCUSES TO HAVE BISCUITS FOR DINNER

If you grew up somewhere other than the South, you might think biscuits are just for breakfast. My family had them for any meal, as did almost everyone I knew while growing up in Knoxville. Pot pie meant a biscuit crust, and dumplings meant soft, thin pieces of biscuit dough dropped into chicken broth. I didn’t know there were other kinds of dumplings until I got out of college. Biscuit breakfast sandwiches can also be considered a meal, as well as leftover biscuits used for lunch-time sandwiches along with pork chops or fried chicken.

In southern vernacular, biscuits are often just called bread. Yeast bread is called light bread, a loaf of bread, or rolls. It’s like ordering tea in the South: everyone knows “tea” means iced tea with sugar. Order bread in some parts, and everyone knows that means a biscuit or maybe cornbread.

So it just makes sense to add some “bread” to any meal, even an international take on biscuits.