Pork Chop Biscuits – Fast Food My Way
With few exceptions, I don’t care for fast food. Fast food has no heart to it. Someone gets paid minimum wage to slap a microscopic meat patty on a bun and lower some fries in oil, add in a coke and charge $5. Voila, here’s your meal. Toss in a toy or small bag of cookies and you may get my kid’s attention but I’m still eating it just because I have to due to whatever appointment has placed a restraint on my cooking time.
Most times though when evenings come around that I know are going to involve a lot of shuffling kids about, leaving us with precious little time to sit down at the table and eat a real meal, I try to make fast food at home. There are any number of things which make good portable meals but for Southerners, the ultimate fast food is somethin’ on a biscuit!
When my grandmother was a little girl, they always had biscuit sandwiches in their lunch pails. Grandmama said they used to be embarrassed that all of the other kids had loaf bread sandwiches, but my great grandmother always made sure their biscuits were fresh and filled with something good. Most folk’s don’t think of eating biscuits outside of breakfast but in my mind they make the perfect loaf bread substitutes.
The fillings are limitless but today I’m going to bring you a quick and easy way to fry up a pork chop for pork chop biscuits, or “Poke Chop” as we say. We have these for breakfast most of the time but this past week when I found out Richard was running late from work, Katy had ballet, and Brady still had homework to do, I thought this would be the perfect occasion for a little supper of pork chop biscuits as not a one of us had time to sit down that night!
If you like, pair it with an apple or banana. It may be simple, but I promise it will be good and filling, too. Don’t just think of these for quickie meals, though. Why not serve up some pork chop biscuits along with fresh fried corn and some green beans for dinner?
It’ll be a heck of a lot better tasting than anything a drive through has to offer.
You’ll need: Oil, flour, salt, pepper, and pork chops.
Whatever flour you have on hand is fine for breading, all purpose or self rising. I usually only buy pork chops when they are on sale and then freeze them to use for these or some of my other pork chop dishes. Mama buys whole pork tenderloin when it goes on sale for $1.99 a pound and has it cut into thin chops (Breakfast chops) and then freezes them in individual bags of about four per bag. This actually ends up being cheaper than bacon!
On a plate, stir up a little flour, salt, and pepper.
Start with about a cup of flour and add about a teaspoon each of salt and pepper but feel free to do this to your personal taste. You can always use season all if you prefer and just mix it in with the flour.
See this plate? I’ve been wanting to tell y’all about these! This is the pattern of dishes that we ate on growing up.
Most of you know that my mother raised me collecting antiques (I want to do a post just on my antique dishes here soon) and she always collected the dishes and glassware that she remembered her grandmother and mother using as a child. When we found out we were getting the new house, the thing I was most excited about (of course!) was the kitchen. It dawned on me one day though, that all of the antique dishes and things I had been collecting to use in my kitchen were actually things from my Mother’s childhood instead of my own! I always looked for the patterns and lines because it was what I was used to looking for with Mama.
So I decided that I’d like to have the dishes from my childhood also. Now when we ate at two places growing up: Mama’s and Grandmama’s. We hardly ever ate out. I remember once we won dinner for four at McDonald’s in some type of giveaway and actually had our picture made out front because we were so excited!
So most of my dinner memories include eating off of either my Mama’s or my Grandmama’s dishes. I got to Ebayin’ a while back and I now have a complete set of these dishes which my mother had and an almost complete set of my Grandmother’s pattern as well.
I thought it would be so neat to alternate between their patterns and my own. When I chose my pattern, I knew it would be the dishes my kid’s remembered most so I chose a pattern that was bright and colorful and happy looking. Now, we have three complete sets of dishes and with each one, a flood of memories to talk about over the dinner table. Brady already likes to ask “Whose dishes are we eating on tonight?” and “Tell me again what kind of food you used to eat when you were little.”
I’m so fortunate to have kids who love to hear the stories that come to mind.
Pour a little bit of oil in your skillet. Just put about 1/3 of a cup or so.
You just need it to cover the bottom. Turn the heat up to medium to allow the oil to warm while you prepare your pork chops.
Press each side of the pork chop down into the flour.
Like so 
We’re having our first dinner guests in the new house next week. I’m so excited! I hope to have weekly dinner guests and I’m going to post what I serve here and how I organized it so I can spend the most time with our guests and the least time in the kitchen once they get here. Corn is still on sale in these parts and it’s so sweet. Our guests are originally from Texas so I’m planning a big old meal of “country food” since I know they can appreciate the good stuff!
The house is no where near ready for company but Trish and her family are good friends so I know they are coming to see us and not to judge my decorating skills. We still have sheets over most of the windows! ~laughs~ It’s amazing how you think you have everything you need and then get a bigger house and seem to be starting from scratch. We have three times as many windows as before, an extra bathroom, and all of these empty walls just aching for something to be hung on them. Poor dears, they’re gonna have to ache a bit longer. I’ve been so busy with end of the year school activities that boxes still sit unpacked in just about every room. I’ve told the fam though, this may just have to wait til school lets out before we can get our act together!
As I write this up, its almost eleven p.m. on Sunday night. Tomorrow I’m heading out early to take Katy to my mother’s (an hour away) so I can work at field day at Brady’s school all day. Then its another hour there and back to get Katy and head home. We’ll leave here around six thirty and get back around five. So if y’all don’t hear from me on any comments that’s why!
Please comment though, I just LOVE getting comments! ~does the happy comment dance~
Place them in the hot oil and cook on medium to medium high heat until browned on both sides and cooked through. This doesn’t take very long.
Kinda like this. You can get them more browned if you like but we had to get out the door!
These are some homemade biscuits I whipped up but these do just as well on canned biscuits if you prefer. You might want to cut your pork chops in half and serve one half on each biscuit to stretch your meat a bit more if need be.
Burger King, eat your heart out.
Pork Chop Biscuits
- Biscuits (canned or homemade)
- Pork Chops
- Flour
- Salt and pepper
- Oil
On a plate or in a bowl, stir together a cup of flour and a teaspoon each of salt and pepper (or to taste). Pour enough oil in a skillet to cover the bottom and heat on medium while you prepare your pork chops. Press each side of pork chops into flour mixture and then into hot skillet. Cook on medium to medium high heat until browned. Serve on biscuits.
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I just want to be the first to comment! haha
Now I’m going back up to read the recipe.
LOL!
Love your recipes,yesterday made the poke pudding cake and you talk about some kinda good and you was right about needing a big ole glass of cole sweet milk to wash it down with…Keep up the great work..:)Harold from Floyd,Va
I so wish that I was a Southern Girl, but I was raised in the North. Forgive me but, what is sweet milk?
That’s southern speak for just regular whole milk. LOL
Hey Harold! Thank you so much! It means a lot when folks take time to comment and say things like this!
I appreciate the encouragement!
Shannon, the reason they call it “sweet milk” is that in the old days there were two types of milk you might drink, buttermilk and whole milk. Take a good swig of buttermilk and you’ll forever think whole milk is sweet!! ~snickers~
Thank you, Lisa!!!!
Gratefully,
Christy
This is a great weekend breakfast–of course, my husband would think he’d died and gone to heaven ( or that someone had switched wives on him
OOH, maybe you’d stun him into getting you flowers or something! In my case, it would take a cattle prod to stun him THAT much!
I had Popeyes one time and ate the chicken with the biscuit and that was good for fast food, so I can only imagine that something home cooked would be even better. I’m not a huge fan of fast food either, it’s become really expensive here. It used to be around $5 or so for a meal at McDonalds, etc but now they’re about $7 and if you get KFC it’s even more, almost $10 and the food is not that good. If I want to eat out somewhere fast I can get better food in Chinatown for that amount of money and it tastes better.
But there is one fast food I have to try, I just have to. Varsity! I am so excited, just thinking of all that grease. I’ve already been looking at their website. haha
Yeah, fast food has gone up a lot. When you take a family of four to a fast food place it is at least fifteen to twenty bucks. With some of the deals going around now at restaurants trying to attract customers, you can eat in a sit down place for a little more than that.
My problem is that whenever we eat out, I look at the bill and mentally tally up how many groceries I could have gotten for the same amount. I can easily feed a family of four for around five dollars so when you look at a twenty dollar bill, that could have been four suppers!
WOW!
One of those FAST FOOD places may take your idea/recipe!
Hummmm, seasoned, crispy pork chop between a fluffy, delicious, biscuit.
YUM!
Hey AntBee!! LOVE LOVE LOVE your username!!!
Maybe I should open me up a little roadside biscuit stand, huh?
hehe
Bad thing is, I would if I could!!!
~hands you a biscuit~
Gratefully,
Christy
My brother lives in L.A. and has always said he wishes he could open a biscuit and gravy only drive thru with sweet tea to drink.
Oooh we bought a huge I mean huge pork loin at Sam’s Club on Friday and I may have to extra thin cut some of it just for this.
What time do we all need to be there?
~grins~
Looks better than Hardee’s! (and you should know that that is high praise–LOL)
~blushes~
Why, Thank you!!
I got married in 1964 and the had to have dishes were melmac. I had a “lovely” set of Boontonware which was high quality (white with a pink rose). The first set of dishes I bought after tiring of the melmac and moving upward was the very pattern of corelle you grew up with and my sons did also. My ex husband is still using them daily. I am thinking the pattern was called Springtime?? I still love Corelle and I have a huge set of the butterfly gold which was of the same era. Picked it up at thrift stores piece by piece.
Springtime Blossom is what they were called but most people referred to it as “crazy daisy”. I like Crazy Daisy best
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My grandmother bought the set for my mother, a set for her, adn the butterfly gold for my mother’s sister.
I hope so badly I can complete my collection. I’m missing several pieces from my grandmother’s pattern. I’ll do a post on it all soon!
Gratefully,
Christy
P.S. I just love the old melamine dishes, too!
I love to eat just about anything on a biscuit! Those look so good, we may have them for a meal this upcoming Memorial Day weekend. Now the only decision is whether to have them for breakfast or lunch or dinner.
Why not all three? .
~giggles~
Man, now I want biscuits..
Oh my gosh, I LOVE pork chop biscuits! Once again, thanks for the marvelously easy recipe. And I love the suggestion about pairing it with your fried corn!
You know… my mom in law actually commented about how unhealthy I cook, when I told her about the fried corn. She lives in Canada, and I don’t think she fully appreciates the wonderful goodness of southern food! *sighs* I do wish she lived closer, so I could stick a bite of Butterfinger Cake in her mouth!
LOL
I LOVE your thinking! I find that critics are best dealt with by shoving sweets in their mouth as well. Clearly they are kindness deficient and need more sugar in their diets!
Ask her about Poutine. Good lord, if that isn’t a dish to rival the unhealthiness of anything a southerner can put up I don’t know what is! it’s awful good too…of course!
I grew up eating off that same pattern of dishes!!! My 16 year old daughter always packs her lunch for school and she loves to take biscuit sandwiches! Her favorites are sausage or ham and home fried chicken tenders. Her friends are always jealous.
I’m jealous, too!! I can’t imagine what it would be like to have someone cooking for me again! lol
You’ve raised yourself a good one, there!
Got some pork chops defrostin right now… outta biscuits though. In this house, I have committed a cardinal sin with that little oversight.
Have a good day at field day. I hope the Bradyman wins lots of ribbons.
I got out of field day with very little sunburn, that was a first. I think this was likely the best field day we’ve ever had. Those people really put their heart into these kids and it shows. Since this was our last field day at that school, it was a bit emotional for both Brady and myself but we made it through without embarrassing ourselves and had a great time!
You don’t have biscuits in the house? @,@
I always cook a double batch of biscuits so we can reheat the extras later and stuff with whatever is on hand. We’ve perfected the warmup … 20 seconds in the microwave to warm the biscuit from the inside out, then a minute in our little toaster oven set on 425 to crisp up the outside just a little. Everything’s better on a biscuit!
I think my microwave is a toaster oven too. I need to get around to figuring that thing out!
I love to cook extras and make two meals out of one cooking!
Wow, Christy, my grandmother (father’s mother) in Rogersville, AL, had the very same dishes!! I have no idea when she got them, but she used them all through my growing up–I’m in my upper 30′s. Do you know what time period they are from?
BTW, I’ve heard stories all about how my mother’s family was so poor that they would often have tater ‘n biscuits (fried potatoes inside the biscuit instead of meat) for lunch out in the cotton fields in Limestone County, Alabama. (That was not so long ago since my mother is only 57 years old.)
I think I would prefer your pork chop biscuit with my fried potatoes on the side!
That’s Pyrex Spring Blossom Green. Some people call it “Crazy Daisy.” It’s from the late ’60s, early ’70s. Isn’t it funny how a cheap set of dishes can bring back memories?
The dishes are early Corelle. We thought thye were marvelous when they first came out and the company claimed they were chip proof and would actually replace any piece that did chip. When I bought my first set I did not consider them cheap. They were $19.99 for a four person set and I thought I was living high on th ehog and was quite proud of them and boy have they lasted through the years.
You know whats crazy, Elaine? They are still about twenty dollars a set brand new! Wow, I had no idea how expensive they were back then! I know that my mother couldn’t afford them on her own and I think they were a Christmas gift.
I read the comment asking about the dishes while I was at field day and before I could get home and answer y’all had done it for me! I just love y’all!
Christy,
I just recently found your website and absolutely love it! I laugh out loud because I think we’re from the same family . . . My mama used to make puddin’ poke cake for us as a child, and we had just recently talked about how great it was and how long since we’d made it. : ) My mamaw has told us many times how she and her eight sisters used to take a biscuit with a large slice of sweet onion on it for lunch to her one-room school, and she loved it . . . that and a tin cup to draw water from the well at dinner time. Nothing like lunch on a biscuit!
Hey Kentucky Lisa!
I am so thrilled you found me and even more thrilled that you like it! I often think y’all are all saints for sitting through my ramblings and tangents.
Isn’t it amazing how the simplest of things can bring your entire childhood back? I think its remembering these little things that help us keep everything in perspective and know what really matters.
Please keep coming back!
Gratefully,
Christy
Man, I just missed the boat! My son visited from GA this past week and we grilled pork chops (plus made everything else he wanted to jog his “home-cooked” memory since he lives with college students). I served cornbread, not biscuits that night…..and that would have been DEEEE-lish-us for breakfast (I did make cheesegrits though weeeee). Oh, for desserts he wanted Choc. Pecan pie and Blueberry Cobbler. Mmm!
About using “old time” plates, the comment about Melmac dishes brought back good memories of my childhood and Mama. Christy, you are so on target about creating wonderful traditions with your children and threading the past with the present for them. I hope when my son and daughter look back, they will have much to remember to trigger thoughts of our happy home. Thank you, as always, for your thoughtful ideas and sunshine-y quotes. Love ya!
Terri,
I know when your children look back they will have memories of their childhood that are every bit as wonderful as mine of my childhood. You’re a wonderful mother with a heart of gold and love and a very dear friend.
Love you!
Christy
Hey Christy! Your antique plate? I have one just like it, but its kinda oblong. Not really oval, but not really round either. Anywho, its my hubby’s grandmothers plate. I love it! We have alot of her old plates here at the house. I have a set that I got for a wedding gift and they haven’t even been used yet, cause I love her plates…lol…Well I am definitly goin’ to make these pork chops and biscuits. My hubby and I are always going out to eat when we’re out of town and are starving and can’t seem to wait an hour before we get home. So I’m gonna make these before we leave so we can have a ‘homemade fast food’ on the go for later. Thanks for the ideas and it looks great!
I hope you get everything unpacked and the way ya want it before school starts again! God Bless and keep the good cookin’ comin’!
Vickie
Hey Vickie! I like your goal of having it unpacked before school starts back! Right now I feel like its pretty stagnant in the unpacking/settling in department. There is always so much daily work to do that its just hard to find time to fit in extra! One of these days, I think mothers really need to look into giving up sleep. Its about the only option we have left for more productivity!
I make a lot of different things for road food when we are day tripping and such, too. I find that eating fast food for more than one or two meals just leaves you kinda feeling “blah”, ya know?
Your husband is gonna love you!!!
Gratefully,
Christy
You plan on having company for dinner every week? How can I sign up? I’m sure it’s not too far a drive from Texas! My husband often likes to eat breakfast at his office and the pork chop biscuits would be perfect to send with him! Thanks for the recipe!
~hehe~
This comment made me grin! Reckon anyone would want to eat here? Lord love ‘em, they’re gonna be eating in the middle of box chaos in a completely undecorated kitchen…
All I need is one of those big old truckloads of money to get all I need done! holler if you see a spare one!
I am actually hoping to go to Texas in July for an event. I’ll be going near Dallas and if I have time was hoping to see if any of my readers in that area wanted to meet up! Maybe I could bring ya some vittles!
Oh my goodness! We lived with our grandmother growing up, and she had plates and cups in that same exact pattern! I especially liked the little mugs that came with that set. Now you’ve got me thinking about finding that pattern for my own set, whenever I decide to get married (I’m 27)
I love the little cups, too! they are precious. There are actually two different styles and I only have the one (with little hook handles) but I want some of the other as well.
I’m so glad you remember them, too!!!
My grandma has those dishes! Wow, they must be pretty common, lots of commenters seems to recognize them from childhood.
They’re very pretty.
I love a good biscuit sandwich. There’s something about biscuits that makes everything taste a bit better. The pork chops look divine! Tenderloins end up cheaper than bacon, huh? Might have to think about that, since my husband is finding out that bacon does terrible things to his stomach and he can’t really eat it anymore.
These are the best looking “fast food”! I haven’t had a pork chop sandwich for awhile, but I know they are delicious!
I also like to buy the pork loins on sale and cut them for what I need.It’s so practical and saves money too!
I do the breakfast chops or pork tenderloin on a biscuit all the time (I don’t bread them though, I just spray Pam in the pan and sprinkle on some salt and pepper.)
Back home in TN you could get a good tenderloin and biscuit at any convenience store just about. Here in AR, I canNOT find one to save my life, so I’ve started making them at home.
And good old salty country ham is another yummy “something on a biscuit” to have as you’re running out the door.
I bread mine sometimes. Other times I do like you do only I sprinkle on some onion powder and some dried basil…YUMMMMM!
Those are exactly the dishes I grew up with! My sister has them all I think – I may have to see if she’s using them and steal them back if she’s not!
Just think if you have a little extra time, you could add a little flour to those pan dripping, brown them off, add a little milk and water and now you have gravy for gravy biscuits, yummo!!!
Just curious…Are thise dishes with the pork sandwich from Corelle?
My Mom had some and I think I have them stored in shed.
Also just love your blogs, recipes and everything. Look forward to it every day. Thanks for taking the time to keep us all well fed and happy.
I miss my grandmama’s dishes now! You have me scouring the net for vintage dishes- I love them, as does my mama, she has a small platter with flowers that I always want to use when I’m over at her house. Sounds like you have quite the collection.
i swear , I could honestly SMELL those chops cooking!! Yum!1
My grandmother had those same dishes, and I have many fond memories of her and her delicious meals whenever I see them. And, I realize how very much I miss her, even though she’s been gone less than a year.
I, too, was thinking how good some gravy would be with these pork chop & biscuit sandwiches. Sometimes I fix that for supper. I love the thin breakfast sliced chops, they fry up so fast. If I make too may, the next day, I like them cold with mustard.
I’m not a big fan of pork chops at all. Haven’t been most of my life. This sure does look good though and may just convert me yet! lol
I grew up with that pattern of Corell dishes as well! It brings a smile to my face every time. I love Corell and registered for that as my wedding “china.”
My mama makes a pork chop biscuit as well, but we call them tenderloin biscuits. She usually makes her angel biscuits for this delight. We love them and my sister actually requested this for her birthday a few weeks ago.
If you come up to our house and cook some of these for my husband, he’ll probably let me go down to your house and sew you up some curtains
Christy – I love your Crazy Daisy plate! When my parents got married in the 70′s, that was their first set of dishes. I remember eating off them growing up. I got a full set of them when I moved out on my own but since getting married they are in storage. I’ll have to dig them out now just for the memories!
Those plates are the same kind of plates my Mom and Granny have! I haven’t tried this recipe yet but I have made banana pudding twice already this week!! I love this website, definitely my go-to for cooking ideas.
My grandmother had those exact dishes. Aw..thanks for the memory!
My children just love when I try your recipes! We tried the cake with the pudding on it-it was delicious.I made a 9×13, and there was only a little piece left by bed time!!! Thanks for all the hard work you put into this….Kristena
Christy, we had those plates when I was growing up too! I actually won the set of dishes on the boardwalk at the New Jersey shore!
I fix these alot for on the go times. I also make them once a week for supper and like the suggestion above…make the gravy to dip the pork chop biscuit in for supper…Can also throw in a veggie for a complete meal!
I grew up eating off of that exact corelle pattern as well
I miss those dishes but now have corelle of my own. My husband picked them, they are the rounded edge square corelle with black swirls across the plate.
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The dishes you show are my mother’s pattern. It was called Lazy Daisy. I had the Butterfly Gold and Old Town Blue. My daughter has the strawberry sunday. All in all wonderful dishes that bring back so many memories of my mom’s house. She would mix the green jade plates that she said came with oatmeal and detergent back years ago. I love your site and your recipes. I could easily get lost wondering around in here. LOL. Thanks for the work you put into this, the love you give shows.
I fried pork chops last night for supper for my sister and made homemade biscuits too. So I had a pork chop biscuit for supper tonight. Yummy!!!
TRIED THE BUTTERMILK BISQUITS
SO GOOD I AM NOW MAKING A SECOND BATCH CAUSE FIRST WAS GONE BEFORE DINNER
VERY EASY TO MAKE AND REALLY TASTY….THANK YOU
Throughly enjoy your site, growing up in Soso, Mississippi and having lived overseas the past 8 years, reading about you and your brother’s fried bologna sandwiches brought back so many memories of growing up. Wonderful site, I think you have made me homesick enough to go back home for a spell.
oh Phil, I do hope you go home for a bit. I’m sure they’re longing for you as much as you are for them. Thank you so much for joining our little family here, we sure are glad to have you!
Gratefully,
Christy
I just gave my daughter five to six sets of those dishes and she is thrilled…we had those for years when she was growing up and for some reason I couldn’t part with them. She mentioned that her dishes were chipped and needing replaced and I asked if she would like retro dishes and had them waiting for her. She said great memories flooded back to her and her kids loved them. I apparently didn’t keep the cups but I had two sizes of plates and two sizes of bowls. She has three children so they will get another workout. I now hear my daughters tell stories to their kids about their childhood and what we did for them and what they had and how I fixed their hair, how they had nice clothes, how I took them to special movies etc….I am glad they loved their childhood because I didn’t have a nice childhood and it was a goal I set when I was very young that I would make sure my children always felt special. I have many wonderful memories, but none of them come from my childhood. I know I not alone.