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Biscuits and Sausage Gravy
Filed under Breakfast/BrunchMay 11
One of these days…One of these days, I will feel like I have a handle on everything. Taking care of a one-year old, keeping up with the house, trying to start a photography business, plus 3 other blogs – I’m beginning to feel a little overwhelmed with life. Which is why I haven’t been around other blogs a whole lot lately. There are just not enough hours in the day!! But I have been forced into getting on top of some things since I will be away from my computer for the next few days. I’ll be heading to my sister’s house to take on the task of watching her 5 kids plus my one. The good thing is that since I won’t have my own computer, I’m hoping for some time to go around a catch up on some of my blog reading. But then again, who knows how much free time I’ll have with 6 kids on my hands…
One thing I will always take time for is a “breakfast for dinner” meal. And this one was phenomenal. In fact, my husband said that this was probably the best biscuits and gravy that he had ever had. Now that’s a compliment!! You can bet that both of these recipes will be making a showing on our table again soon!
Mile High Buttermilk Biscuits
from Cook’s Illustrated (via Nook and Pantry)makes 12 biscuits
total time: about 25 minutes
2 C flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
1 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
4 Tbsp unsalted butter
1 1/2 C buttermilk
Additional flour
2 Tbsp melted butterPreheat oven to 500ºF. Spray a 9 in springform or cake pan with some nonstick spray.
Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar and salt to a bowl and mix the ingredients together evenly. Using a fork or pastry blender, cut in the butter until the pieces are no bigger than a small pea. Fold in the buttermilk until everything is just blended, and there are no streaks of flour remain. Do not overmix, the mixture should still be lumpy.
Line a plate or tray with some flour and using a 1/4 C measuring cup or 1/4 C ice cream/cookie scoop, scoop out balls of the dough onto the tray of flour. Flour your hands and roll each ball around in the flour to evenly coat them in a layer of flour. The dough is very wet and very sticky. Place the dough balls into the prepared pan. Place 9 balls around in a ring and 3 balls in the center of the pan. Brush the tops of the biscuits with melted butter.
Bake for 5 minutes at 500ºF (middle rack) and then lower the temperature to 450ºF and bake for another 15 minutes.
Sausage Gravy
from Nook and Pantrytotal time: about 15 minutes
1 16 oz. tube of pork sausage
Additional fat if needed: bacon grease or butter
4 Tbsp flour
3 C milk
A little bit of dried herbs (optional)
Salt and pepper to tasteHeat 2 teaspoons of vegetable oil to a cast iron skillet or large saucepan over medium high heat. Add the sausage and break it up into bite size chunks, but don’t break it up too much, you want nice cocoa puff sized chunks. Brown the sausage and get some fond on your pan.
Turn the heat down to medium. Remove the sausage and drain, reserving the fat. Return about 3 to 4 tablespoons of the rendered sausage fat into the pan. If you don’t have enough fat, add a little bacon grease or butter to bring it up. Add the flour and cook while whisking until the roux is golden brown. Keep stirring and slowly pour in your milk, making sure to whisk out all the lumps. If it looks too thin, don’t worry, it’ll thicken once it simmers. If you like your gravy super thick, use less milk (2 or 2 1/2 cups). Once you added all the milk, return the sausage back to the skillet, add herbs if you want to get fancy, and season with salt and plenty of freshly ground pepper. Simmer the gravy until it’s thickened and serve it over your split biscuits.
25 Responses to “Biscuits and Sausage Gravy”
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Rosa's Yummy Yums said on May 11th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
OMG, that look so good! I really have to test that speciality very soon!
Cheers,
Rosa
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Kim said on May 11th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
That plate of biscuits and gravy looks so inviting.
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kat said on May 11th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Looks like some good comfort food. Good luck with 6 kids!
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Bumpkin on a Swing said on May 11th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
6 kids? No way I could handle that, love biscuits and gravy, a southern comfort that rotates around to Sunday morning more often that not.
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Joanne said on May 11th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
SIX KIDS?!?!? you are crazy. Adorable. But crazy.
These biscuits = heaven.
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Maria said on May 11th, 2010 at 6:50 pm
I love homemade biscuits and the hubs loves gravy…I will have to make this for him and eat my biscuits with jam:)
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Susan said on May 11th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
I love breakfast for dinner and I love biscuits & gravy! I'm sooo trying out these biscuits with our fried chicken tonight.
I'm amazed that you do all that you do! Can't believe you'll be watching 6 kids…sometimes I can barely handle my 2.
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Darius T. Williams said on May 11th, 2010 at 11:17 pm
I don't have a kid, but I know what you mean about trying to keep it all together. Um…but biscuits and gravy will make you feel like everything's in tune…at least until you're done eating it!
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Patsyk said on May 12th, 2010 at 12:53 am
That is one of my favorite breakfasts! I haven't had it in years, and now I'm going to be craving it!
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Ingrid said on May 12th, 2010 at 3:10 am
Oh, man good luck with that. I have three of my own and often allow each of them to invite a friend as it oddly makes things easier rather than having an odd amount. Did that makes sense?
I made this for dinner tonight though I cheated and used the refrigerated.
Btw, I know how you feel about not being able to juggle everything. I've been MIA for about a MONTH or more. You miss a ton when it's just a couple of days so you can just imagine how much catching up I have to do.
Hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day!
~ingrid[Reply]
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Julie said on May 12th, 2010 at 3:48 am
My husband would love it if I fixed that for him! But we're both trying to lose weight, so I'm not..ha!
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grace said on May 12th, 2010 at 10:01 am
i'll eat a plate of biscuits and gravy at any time of day, willingly and with gusto. your picture looks amazing–soft biscuits and gravy of the proper consistency. excellent.
and hey–if you figure out how to get a handle on everything, let me know.
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teresa said on May 12th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
my husband LOVES biscuits and gravy, this would score me some serious points!
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eatme_delicious said on May 13th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
OOo I'll have to try that biscuit recipe! They look so soft and fluffy. Good luck with the 6 kids! =)
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cynthia said on May 17th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
nothing is better than biscuits and gravy. yumm-o
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Lauren said on May 20th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
I made a "healthified" version of this Southern favorite a while back, using homemade chicken sausage. I'm going to have to try your buttermilk biscuits, which look incredibly light and fluffy!
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Thibeault's Table said on May 20th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Pure comfort food. I'd love your sausage and biscuits for my breakfast this morning.
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tryityoumightlikeit said on May 20th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
My husband craves biscuits and gravy but living in New England makes it hard to find. I'm looking forward to trying out your recipe. It seems really easy.
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Memória said on May 22nd, 2010 at 5:28 pm
Oh, I want this right now. OH goodness!
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Shannon said on May 30th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
I tried making the biscuits and I just cannot believe that 1.5 cups of milk is correct. The mixture was too wet to be considered anything close to a dough. I had to gradually double the flour just to get it to a point where I could handle it at all. Is '1.5 cups of milk' possibly a typo?
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Deborah said on May 30th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Shannon,
It's not a typo. The dough is really wet. I used an ice cream scoop so that I didn't have to handle it at all. It was very different for a biscuit dough, but it worked out for me!
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Becca said on November 24th, 2011 at 2:42 pm
THESE WERE DELICIOUS!!! I made these for my thanksgiving dinner tonight for my family – the best quick biscuits i have ever tasted. thank you for this wonderful recipe!
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Deborah Reply:
November 24th, 2011 at 6:52 pm
@Becca, I’m so glad you loved them!
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