Sausage and gravy

[Paul5388]

One of the quickest ways to get a man's attention is to serve gravy!  My wife was making a pan of biscuits and suggested that I make some gravy and maybe put some sausage in for an added kick.  Not being at all familiar with making gravy, she gave me the instructions and I cooked it!  I had 4 sausage patties (not nearly as big as what Donald makes!) I fried in a skillet, breaking them up as they fried.  In another sauce pan, I heated 2 tablespoons of butter (note: butter doesn't start with a "M") and added 1/4 cup of corn starch in 2 cups of whole milk, 1 teaspoon of salt and 1/2 teaspoon of ground black pepper.  Over a low heat, I stirred on a regular basis, while cooking the sausage, until it thickened to about where I wanted it (it only takes 2-3 minutes when you use corn starch).

While the biscuits were still baking, I crumbled the sausage into the gravy and saw it was going to continue thickening, which I didn't want.  When the biscuits came out, I added a little more milk and some water, stirred it in and reheated it.  That was just right and we put it all on the table!  A little more fresh ground black pepper and I was set for a simple, but filling meal.

I guess you could say it's a variation of SOS.

[bigcountry1009]

Good ole' sausage gravy. I can just about drink that alone.

[ma]

Nothing better on a frozen morning than biscuits and sausage gravy.

[1reb]

made it tonight for supper

great recipe!!!!!!!!!!!!

johnny

[Paul5388]

I had the leftovers for lunch today, but added some boiled eggs on the side with sausage gravy on top of the peeled eggs.  Sorta like eggs Benedict without the English muffin.

[oldegger]

YumMM

Al

[newbie57]

I like sausage gravy too. My wife makes a gravy called sweet milk gravy with bacon drippings that is awsome on a bisquit. Don't tell Donald you use milk in the gravy. One of his videos mentions a friend he dropped a notch for that.
Buddy

[Joe in Dirt]

Ok, this is the last post I will ever read about food being cooked, served or pictures, I read that post I could smell the sausage cooking see the gravey in my mind and even touch the big hot biscuits, mouth is watering, stomach growling so I run into to the kitchen and tell my honey guess what I am hungry for, then I describe what I read, result, mean eyes and she said go to your room for a time out, now here I sit hungy my feeling hurt and all because of Paul5388 but I will be ok. Joe-In-Dirt

[Paul5388]

Buddy, you just have to remember there are several types of gravy.  Some do have milk in them, so they're called "milk gravy".

The gravy I made is more like the mixes you find in the grocery store, or what they serve at the local Dairy Queen.  If you put enough black pepper in it, you'll never really taste the gravy!

[Misplaced Texan]

Some 30+ years ago when the girls were little i spent a week traveling around Arkansas.  it was a great trip for a young family from Texas.  Close, Cheap and interesting.  The problem was I gained 10#'s eating sausage gravy and biscuits (along with a lot of other stuff.)

so This is my sausage gravy:

Brown crumbled sausage in a skillet until pink color is gone.  remove from pan
Sprinkle several spoons of flour in the remaining grease and brown like making a roux
Add milk slowly stirring to mix with your roux
Simmer until thickened
Season with salt and pepper.
Add sausage back to the gravy and heat through.

Note:  Any time cream gravy gets too thick, you can thin with an addition of hot water.  If you add more milk to thin it will get thicker and thicker.
Cream gravy trick is to simmer it long enough to be rid of the flour paste taste.  Sometimes it will want to get too thick too fast and that is where the hot water comes in.

Gail

[SherryB]

Misplaced Texan.... yes that's the way I make it too.  I never knew about adding the hot water though instead of the milk.  If you're new to making gravy, I've found it helpful to move the pan off the heat until you get the flour stirred into the grease.  That give you a little time to work out the lumps before it starts to thicken and also gives you a better idea about whether or not to add more flour. 

My parents were dairy farmers and they sold grade A milk.  In order to be grade A, it was periodically tested to make sure the percentage of cream was high enough.  So, we rarely kept any cream back for ourselves so I grew up only knowing milk gravy.  Hope that's a good enough "excuse" for Donald to not put me back a notch on his list!

On a side note, people nowdays think gravy is made from a powdered package and you add water.  Yuk and Yuk and Yuk.

[Paul5388]

I can't disagree with you two ladies, browned flour gravy is certainly good.  However, it does make a brown gravy, not white gravy.

[Misplaced Texan]

Sherri,  ours was never cream!    Just milk masquerading as cream.  i never heard cream gravy called milk gravy but that was closer to what we had.  

White?  gravy?  I guess that is the same thing??

Gail

Chicken Fried Steak mashed potatoes with cream gravy,English Peas, biscuits!  yum.  ( I also hit mine with a little shake of tabasco once it is on my plate.

[SherryB]

I haven't had chicken fried steak in a hundred years and longer than that since I had Eng peas from the garden.  Trying to grow some this year....