- [Karl] I think biscuits signify--
- [Sarah] Love. - [Karl] Our love for people.
- [Sarah] Biscuits, I think, have always been something
that people did out of love for other people.
They're not easy.
They're finicky.
I believe biscuits are the South.
It just signifies home.
- Whenever we started to do a food truck
and we were coming up with concepts,
I really wanted to do a hot chicken food truck.
This was before the craze, even before Hattie B's.
I wanted to bring hot chicken to everybody.
I was told I was crazy and that would never work.
Wrong!
But-- - Whoops.
- [Karl] Out of a fit of frustration
I said, "Fine, what would you do?"
And Sarah said, "I love your biscuits.
Every time you serve 'em to me, I love it."
And so at the heart of it it's love
and it's something that's difficult and it's hard to do.
It's something that takes a little while.
- It's funny, because I grew up in the North.
Yes, I'm a Yankee,
but both of my stepparents grew up in the South,
so my first introduction to the Southern table
was when I was about 16 years old
and biscuits was always a part of it.
- When we started the truck,
I had this grand idea I was gonna have 10 items on the menu,
and about halfway through the first day,
I called Sarah crying and she talked me off the ledge
and after that we decided to go out
with the East Nasty, the Princess, and the Gertie.
That was the very first day, first month,
pretty much the first year on the truck,
were those three and we would add on
and pull off different things,
but those have stayed on the menu ever since.
So the Princess is our ode to Nashville hot chicken.
It's my way of getting hot chicken food truck in.
We start with our chicken,
we only use chicken thigh.
We brine it for 24 to 48 hours in a dry brine.
We'll batter that, dip it in what I imagine,
I've never seen the back of Prince's hot chicken,
but it's what I imagine true, real hot chicken is.
It comes outta the fryer, we put that on our biscuit,
top it with some creole mustard and a little honey
and other side of the biscuit.
It's kind of the perfect sandwich.
- It's a delicious piece of chicken.
I haven't eaten that in a while
and it's one of my favorite things on the menu.
So when Karl and I were first married and dating,
every year on my birthday,
Karl would make me donuts for my birthday.
They were these donuts with blueberry compote
and lemon curd and mascarpone,
'cause blueberry and lemon is my favorite.
He would make me a cake and the donuts.
So one day when we were tryin' to figure out
what to do with all the leftover biscuit dough,
because we'll only roll the dough out twice
we realized there's yeast in the biscuit dough,
and he said, "I bet this will fry like those donuts did."
And so we tried it and now my joke is
that he gives out my birthday treat
to every person that comes through the doors. (laughs)
- [Karl] I think any type of fried dough, that's your treat.
It's kinda like ice cream.
Nobody's mad when they go to get fried dough,
no matter what it is.
Donuts--
- Funnel cake.
- Funnel cake, it's all good,
you can't be mad when you're eatin' fried dough.
My grandmother made drop biscuits,
what we call our Family Reserve biscuits.
That was her everyday biscuit
and then on special occasions she would do
a yeast-raised biscuit, the Angel Biscuit.
When we played around and tested the biscuits,
the Angel Biscuit held up a lot better in sandwich form.
And so we went with that on the food truck
and that was our original biscuit.
Once we came to the brick-and-mortar,
we added our Family Reserve back in.
My personal favorite: Family Reserve, always.
Yours?
- My favorite's the Angel Biscuit.
I think it's somethin' special, it's something unique.
It's not like a biscuit you're gonna try anywhere else.
And I love that yeasty flavor
with some honey or with sausage, it's just really good.
Wash Park was the park Karl and I got engaged in
in Denver, Colorado.
So it was a really special place for us, so
it had to be a really special sandwich
to put on the menu and name it that.
We have a fresh ground beef patty
and then it's topped with our housemade pimento cheese
and some bacon jam and then of course
that's all served on the biscuit,
so it's like the best version
of a cheeseburger you can have.
We always joke that Karl followed me to culinary school.
I always call it my "Eat, Pray, Love" moment,
that I was gonna completely disrupt my life,
when I was working as an accountant
and I came home from a trip to Europe
and said, "I'm quitting my job
and I'm going to culinary school,"
to which all my family replied,
"All you cook is blue box macaroni & cheese." (laughs)
Well, I'm trying to change that.
Decided I was goin' to culinary school
and Karl called and asked me on a date.
Actually our first date was in this building.
Biscuit Love number two is where actually the love started.
(both laugh)
And as we kept dating over the summer,
I kept saying this can't get serious 'cause I'm moving.
I'm going to culinary school.
And he was like, "So?"
And I'm like, oh, in Colorado.
And so I joke that he stalked me all the way there.
And the rest is history.
- Yeah, two months later I sold everything I owned,
and I'm drivin' across Kansas goin',
this is either gonna make a really great story
or this is gonna be the worst love song ever.