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Post by quinlove on Jul 12, 2022 15:12:56 GMT
Sounds great. Do you drain the fat after browning the sausage and before adding the mix? If your sausage is really fatty, spoon some off. You want a little fat, but not swimming in it. I use Farmland sausage (comes in a blue tube) and it is not fatty at all, and has a great, but mild flavor. For complete gravy failures, as myself, about 2 Tablespoons of fat left in the pan ? TIA. |
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Post by mellyw on Jul 12, 2022 16:27:52 GMT
I was at a restaurant once and their biscuits and gravy used CHICKEN gravy!!!  That’s just wrong and gross 🤢 |
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Post by janeinbama on Jul 12, 2022 16:54:15 GMT
My recipe is similar to the ones listed. Funny story though, for the first 15 years of our marriage, my gravy was always questionable - brown and milk gravy. DH made brown gravy and I used Pioneer Gravy Mix for biscuits and gravy. On a ski trip with our youth group, one of the moms made sausage gravy one day. The was a military mom, Hawaii native. When they were transferred to the south,a women she met told her to get her "southern card" she needed to know how to make gravy. As a lifetime southerner, I went home and found a recipe I could make that was good. I didn't need to lose my southern card! So the last 25+ years I have made sausage gravy!!
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Post by papersilly on Jul 12, 2022 17:18:24 GMT
i never grew up with biscuits and gravy and didn't have it until i started dating someone in college. i watched his mother make it in a cast iron pan from "drippings". i'm not a fan to this day but in the few times i've had it, i liked it with sausage bits in it.
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 12, 2022 21:44:34 GMT
For complete gravy failures, as myself, about 2 Tablespoons of fat left in the pan ? TIA. If you are using the gravy mix - that is plenty. You could leave less. If you are making the gravy from scratch - the fat is pretty important to it. |
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Post by Lexica on Jul 12, 2022 22:24:56 GMT
Am I the only person to have never eaten biscuits and gravy? My ex and I ate in a little restaurant on a road trip and it was on the menu, but neither of us ordered it. I was picturing regular gravy, not gravy with meat in it. It sounded really boring. So much for how it sounded.
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Post by librarylady on Jul 13, 2022 0:18:31 GMT
I was past 30 before I even heard of gravy and biscuits, let alone eat it.
I have never tried to make it. It is not "a thing" at our house because DH is diabetic and I am eternally watching what I eat.
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Post by chaosisapony on Jul 13, 2022 2:55:03 GMT
Ok - this one is really cheating, but everyone who has it tells me it is the best they have ever had. LOL  I brown the sausage nicely. Then I sprinkle the gravy mix onto the browned sausage (make sure your skillet is deep, and not super hot when you do this). The package calls for water, but I use milk. You can do half of each. 1 cup milk, 1 cup water - but I do all milk, and thin with water if I need to. But stir the gravy mix into the browned sausage, and then add the milk and stir well under medium heat until thick. So good! Homemade biscuits are amazing - but frozen Pillsbury Buttermilk biscuits are great too - just put as many as you want on a baking sheet and bake. They are far better than canned ones. Nest them kind of close together for software biscuits.  *McCormick also has just a regular Country Gravy mix and a Peppered Country Gravy. Those work too, but for the best biscuits and gravy - the Sausage Gravy mix is good. I am a 'from scratch' cook, for the most part. But dang, I like these country gravies! The Peppered one is great with fried chicken (chicken strips, nuggets, whatever). I'm so glad I'm not the only one that likes to cheat. I can make biscuits and gravy from scratch but the last thing I want to do in the morning when I'm hungry for breakfast is make biscuits from scratch. Way too much effort. I've never seen frozen biscuits before, I am going to look for those next time I go shopping! Sometimes when I'm in food prepping mode I'll make and freeze my own biscuits and that works out great. But I like the idea of these for when I'm really unprepared and unmotivated. I also like to cheat with this gravy mix: www.amazon.com/Williams-Country-Gravy-Ounces-Pack/dp/B00CL18FGC The Williams gravy is the best one I've tried. |
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Post by artbabe on Jul 13, 2022 14:41:57 GMT
I love biscuits and gravy. This is making me hungry.
I also grew up on biscuits and chocolate gravy. Also very southern. And no, it isn't like meat gravy and it isn't like Hershey's syrup. It is butter, sugar, cocoa powder, flour, vanilla, and milk. We don't make it very sweet- so many recipes use way too much sugar. I haven't had it in years and I just love it.
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Post by disneypal on Jul 13, 2022 14:57:28 GMT
I also grew up on biscuits and chocolate gravy. When we would visit my aunt in the summers, she always made pancakes with chocolate gravy - like you said, it isn't like chocolate syrup, it is thicker and oh so good! I need to ask her how she made that.
I love Biscuits and Gravy, although I have never made sausage gravy before. I have made homemade biscuits. I think I will try using lindah's recipe, but I also might try iowgirl's version, since I sometimes am a "semi-homemade" kind of cook. |
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Post by janeinbama on Jul 13, 2022 18:38:32 GMT
We also use Hot Sausage when making Biscuits and Gravy as the milk tones down the spice a bit. I'm fine with it and I don't much spicy and never for breakfast.
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 15, 2022 20:52:06 GMT
When we would visit my aunt in the summers, she always made pancakes with chocolate gravy - like you said, it isn't like chocolate syrup, it is thicker and oh so good! I need to ask her how she made that.
My Mom made THE best homemade chocolate fudge. Real cream and butter. She used cocoa powder in it too. She would cook it to 'soft ball stage', I think, for it to be come fudge. Once it got to that stage, she would use a wooden spoon to whip it and then pour it into a buttered dish to harden into fudge... SO GOOD! But she used the same recipe and would just not cook it as long, and that became ice cream sauce! That kind of sounds like your chocolate gravy. My mom would make 'white gravy' for biscuits... but it was sweet. I think it was mostly just powdered sugar frosting with butter and more milk. It was good! |
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