The windy city lived up to its name on our weekend get away. After record breaking warmth, a cold and rainy front hit the Midwest in time for our jaunt to Chicago. We bundled up as best as we could and headed to Table 52 for dinner on our first night in town. My toes were cold by the time we arrived, but the cozy dining area of Art Smith’s restaurant warmed me up immediately. Art was Oprah’s former personal chef, turned restauranteur. Our meal started with an amuse bouche of deviled eggs…Bill was delighted…and ate my share minus a nibble. Next we were treated to perfectly formed, warm biscuits. Tender and moist, they were delightful on the chilly evening. Ours were speckled with green…probably minced chives, which I forgot to add when recreating these at home. The rest of our meal was just as fabulous…
Back to home…I had no idea what kind of biscuits we were served…but they were magnificent. Googling brought up this recipe…I would never have guessed goat cheese was an ingredient, but it adds a certain je ne sais quoi. The wonderful texture combined with the buttery bottom crust and Parmesan encrusted top produced the best biscuit you’ll ever try~
Goat Cheese Biscuits…adapted from Art Smith
2 cups flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/4 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons cold butter, cut into small pieces
4 tablespoons (2 ounces) good quality goat cheese, cut into small piece
1 cup buttermilk
2 tablespoons butter, divided, to grease the pan and top the biscuits
1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Preheat oven to 425º. Place 10 inch cast iron skillet into oven to heat.
Sift flour, baking powder and salt into medium bowl. Add butter and goat cheese and with fingers, pinch and break apart pieces till mixture has the consistency of corn meal…some bigger pieces are OK. Add buttermilk and gently mix to form dough. You may add an extra tablespoon of buttermilk if needed.
Carefully remove hot skillet from oven. Add 1 tablespoon butter and swirl to coat bottom of pan. Using a 1/4 cup muffin scoop or spoon, place dollops of batter into hot pan. Brush with additional melted butter.
Bake 14-16 minutes, till lightly browned. Sprinkle hot muffins with Parmesan and serve warm.
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Yet another use for my “leftover” goat cheese containers! I love these, they look perfect Lizzy.
These look light and fluffy and the addition of cheese must be delicious, I want these with my rib eye tonight!
Oh yum – I love savoury cheesy scones! Buttermilk is just magic with creating lovely light and moist baked goods
P.S. I’d heartily recommend trying goat’s milk chevin in an omelette with roasted vegetables (butternut, zucchini, onions, red and yellow peppers). It’s beyond divine!
Wow, that sounds and looks good, Liz!! I love your last photo
And Liz – I have a blog award for you: http://angellovescooking.blogspot.com/2011/06/brownie-cake-with-dulce-de-leche.html
i bet these are great! I love goat cheese so I must try them!! thanks!
These biscuits sound so good. I’m intrigued by the goat cheese.
Thanks for sharing Lizzy
Love love love Table 52! And your biscuits look perfect.
I love when you can recreate a restaurant find. Great minds think alike. I recreated my favorite appetizer. These biscuits sound amazing. I will need to give these a try sometime. Yummy!
wow!!!
it looks delicious!!!
can i have one!!!!
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Can’t wait to try it! I have been following your blog for awhile. Love it! I am just up to your North in Madison. Hope you will follow me too on my blog: learntocookbadgergirl.com.
Goat cheese is a fantastic ninja ingredient. It can really add that extra ‘oomph’ to a dish. These biscuits looks so good
Those are beautiful, fluffy biscuits!
I love goats cheese! I’m sure these biscuits taste fabulous… I have no doubt when you say these are the best you tasted! Thank you for sharing this recipe, Lizzy!
Wow, lovely, delightful, and YUMMY!
You know what, Liz, every time I visit your blog, I just can’t stop my mouth from salivating…..
I am a goat cheese freak, these are right up my alley.
Lately, I am “all-things” goat cheese. So yes, I want these. And double yes, I will do these.
This looks so delicious. Love the addition of goat cheese! Yummmm!
Lizzy-These goat cheese biscuits sound sooo amazing, delicious, and they look very nice and flaky. Love how they turned out, certainly a great recipe that for sure I would love to try…just have to buy some goat cheese!
Your biscuits turned out amazing Lizzy. They look so light and fluffy!
These sound awesome, Lizzy! I can imagine how light they are!
Not a huge fan of goat cheese but these biscuits looks so so fluffy and perfectly baked.
The biscuits sound amazing with goat cheese, nice!
Looks really fluffy and good
Yum! Goat cheese biscuits, what a great idea! We’re biscuit makers for generations, and this will make a great addition to the repertoire. Thanks!
Yum! Goat cheese biscuits! We go back generations of biscuit bakers and this will make a wonderful addition to the repertoire, thanks!
There is nothing better than a good, flaky biscuit in the morning. I never would have thought to add goat cheese to them before, but have to admit, I like the idea! These look fantastic
These biscuits look light and fluffy. I love the double hit of goats cheese and Parmesan and I just so happen to have some goats cheese that needs using up. Perfect!
Mouthwatering. I can only imagine how delicious the goats cheese would make these biscuits! They look so moist and fluffy on the inside, yet crunchy and crusty on the outside! Great recipe Lizzy! Thanks!
Isn’t Chicago the best? Glad you had a nice trip.
These look so good! I have some leftover goat cheese in the fridge from another recipe that I’ve had no clue what to do with. I wonder if it’s still good.
Oh, I adore goats cheese,.These look really good. I might be tempted to use a little rosemary in theses – but I’d eat them your way too
WOW! Is all I can say!
Also, I loved reading this post today while it’s 97 degrees out! Hearing about how cold you were gave me a break from the heat! Ha!
Agree I would have never imagined putting goat cheese IN biscuits. But your biscuits look delicious and I can imagine the richness from Parmesan and goat cheese! Glad to hear you had a great trip. I would love to visit one day…
delicious looking fabulous biscuits
With buttermilk, goat cheese, and parmesan cheese these have got to be the best biscuits on the planet!! Miriam@Meatless Meals For Meat Eaters
Oh my yummy goodness! These have got to be the best biscuits ever… goat cheese and parm cheese?! YUMMO!
I know this is a savory biscuit but I still think it would be great with the strawberries I have in my fridge. Is that crazy!?!?!?
We’re actually headed up to Chicago for July 4th weekend and were still brainstorming places to go – I think we might have to add Table 52 to the list if we can snag a reservation! In the mean time, I’ll have to make these gorgeous biscuits =)
Gah! these are calling my name!! A savory biscuit is a dream come true
I’m not usually a goat cheese fan, but I could sure go for this!
What perfect biscuits! I am not a big fan of goat cheese, but my husband loves it. I am going to have to try these next time we have some in the house! Glad you had a good weekend in Chicago!
Gorgeous biscuits and they sound so good with the addition of goat cheese! We’re big fans of goat cheese at our house so I need to try these soon!! Hubby would love these!
Lizzy these biscuits sound amazing! Goat cheese and parmesan in a flaky light biscuit, I think I would be in heaven enjoying one of these warm out of the oven! Hope you have a wonderful rest of the week!
Goat cheese biscuits sound wonderful. I’ll have to try this.
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OK, Liz, I think we were in Chicago at the same time b/c we were looking for the North Face store to buy winter jackets! Love goat cheese and will try this soon. Thanks.
Oh my goodness! Goat cheese anything is divine! These sound great!
What a great recipe. My hubby would be in cheesy heaven.
Those biscuits look super fluffy.
Goat cheese! What a wonderful idea. I’m thinking I’m going to try these with some smoked goat cheese and a bit of fried sage mixed in… kate@kateiscooking
I have goat cheese in my fridge and I have been dying for things to do with it. Its one of those ingredients I have to sneak in or I get a shriveled nose from the BF. I love it and I can’t wait to try these.