Biscuits and sausage gravy

[Polybius]

That got your attention, didn't it? Well, who here loves biscuits and sausage gravy? I sure do, and as a matter of fact had it for dinner! Does anyone have their own special recipe? What are your secrets?

[lapfog_1]

1. I love it...

but it is now a once or twice a year thing.

not that healthy for me

[brewens]

2. Mine's simple. 1 can evaporated milk, one can water, and turkey sausage.

Get it to almost boiling then thicken with cornstarch. Salt and pepper as you like.

I just use the basic bisquik recipe for the biscuits.

[Adsos Letter]

4. Two over-easy eggs on top.

No runny egg whites.

[OriginalGeek]

11. Can we get this defined please?

We've been to hundreds of breakfast places and we seem to get hundreds of different preparations for something as simple as a fried egg.

I want runny yellows and and hard whites. Like you said, no runny white parts bc that's just gross. BUT we keep being told that over easy is less done than over medium. But even when the restaurant tells us over medium is runny yellows and hard whites, the cooks don't seem to be capable of making it. We always either get hard yellow or still under-cooked white.

Cooks and waitstaff can't get on the same page.

What I think are the 4 major preparations are:
Sunny side up - runny yellow, probably runny white, hasn't been flipped so the top side of the yolk stays bright yellow instead of getting browning...
Over easy - same as above but gets flipped for a bit to get some browning on top
Over medium - Same as over easy but cooked long enough to get the whites cooked through while keeping the yolk runny
Over hard - Cooked until the yolk is dead. (hard)

We need some egg standardization!

Personally I like when the whites get some crisp from browning but I gotta have runny yellow so they cascade down biscuits and gravy or pancakes or that sandwich from the movie "Spanglish".

[Adsos Letter]

15. "...runny yellows and and hard whites."

that's my standard.

[OriginalGeek]

16. now

if we can just get diner cooks across America to agree.

[dawg day]

5. My sister-in-law said, "Brown the sausage..."

"And just add in flour. The grease is the flavor."

So I did that, but it was just so greasy.

Next time, I'm going to drain the sausage and just use a "country gravy" packet. Let's face it... it's all delicious.

[Zambero]

6. I can feel my arteries slamming shut

Oh well, I suppose dying happy is the way to go!

[procon]

7. Pepper, pepper and more pepper.

I brown the sausage, drain off all but about 2 tbls of the grease, stir in enough flour to make a thick paste. Slowly add canned milk while stirring, simmering until it reaches your desired consistency. Add the pepper, taste, add more pepper, repeat as needed.

Besides biscuits, I serve sausage gravy with Chicken Fried Steak, and Fried Chicken with mashed potatoes. Yum!

[pansypoo53219]

8. i prefer just biscuits. i use the settlement cookbooks w/extra old baking powder.

gotta use LARD! i put in extra butter †oo. bake in cast iron frying pan.

[cyclonefence]

9. This was dinner in Depression-era homes

at least in the part of WV I'm from. You could eke out the gravy with water, if you had to, and the meat was there for flavoring more than anything else. It was hot, and it filled hungry bellies, but that's about all you could say for it. Now well-made biscuits with sausage gravy--that's a whole other animal! Yum.

[abqtommy]

10. I love me some biscuits and sausage gravy with two fried eggs on top and whole sausages on

the plate. Best I've ever had was in Crystal Falls*, Michigan/Upper Peninsula I've been there many times while traveling through. Note: Synchronize your watch since Crystal Falls is in the Central Time Zone and just a few miles north you run into the Eastern Time Zone...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Falls,_Michigan

[sir pball]

12. Two secrets for me.

1 - No fresh-ground black pepper, rather a ton of the cheapest pre-ground black pepper you can get (dollar store brands are ideal). It's about as akin to fresh as Mad Dog 20/20 is to Chateau Petrus, but in this particular case it's the exact flavor you need.

2- Homemade sausage, from a recipe that I am *not* sharing!

[Hotler]

13. Try it with Mexican chorizo. nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. I'll have that, with a side of chicken fried steak and eggs over medium. 😋

[JuJuYoshida]

17. pass the Tabasco sauce

[smirkymonkey]

18. Ugh! I'm sorry, but that looks so unappealing to me.

It's the white gravy. It just looks like fat and flour mixed together - which I assume is what it is - but the sight of it just turns my stomach. Also, I can't deal with any kind of soggy bread.

Maybe it's because it's just not something I grew up with or ever really even seen on a menu. Just not something I could ever be talked into eating.

[musicman65]

19. Scrambled eggs

with ham and a touch of hot sauce,,,mmmmmmmmmmm