My friends and I try to get together once every year in a big Airbnb, where we basically just hang out all weekend or a most of a week if we can. We all take turns cooking meals for everyone. Only breakfast and dinner, lunch is a free for all. I always get breakfast for day one. It’s always biscuits and gravy.
The biscuits come from a can, they were put there by a man, in a factory downtown.
But the gravy is homemade. Use a giant pot, put a few pounds of spicy ground sausage in the bottom and brown it up.
Leave the grease in, lower the heat, add an amount of flour and stir it in for a few minutes to cook it and make a sort of roux. Then slowly add almost a gallon of whole milk, depending on how much sausage and therefore flour you used.
Stir it very often, gently scrape the bottom, but not aggressively, because you likely burned a little flour on there during the roux phase, too much meat to handle, I haven’t solved this yet. But it’ll be ok.
Once it’s good and hot, almost simmering, kill the heat, let it cool a minute or two, then serve on the biscuits. The consistency should be somewhat thick, like, well, thick gravy. Not watery. When it gets cold in the fridge, you can scoop it out and it holds its shape.
It’s so unhealthy, but people love it. It makes a great breakfast for 10-15 people. Sometimes I’ll do a big pan of eggs simultaneously to go with it. There’s always leftovers of the gravy, but it goes on anything and reheats easily, so it gets eaten over the next few days when random people are randomly hungry. It never gets thrown out.
I’ve tried offering to make other dishes, do dinner instead, or do a different breakfast food. But everyone always begs for the biscuits and gravy. So I oblige.
We do usually end up with a second meal, depending on how many people can make it, so I’ll help my wife with whatever she decides to make for dinner.
This is exactly how I make gravy. I have also started making the biscuits from scratch using a flaky layers recipe I found online; it is a marginal improvement, but the gravy is still the star of the show.
I saved it to Pocket, which is apparently shut down now, so I am waiting for them to send me my exported list. I will share the recipe if they ever send my exported list, but a few key points are below.
You have to cut the butter into the dry ingredients to make pea sized bits, some people use a food processor but I do it old fashioned with a pastry blender. Then add the wet ingredients, mix, and do a few rounds of rolling and folding and use a small cup or round cutter to cut them out.
It sounds harder than it is, with a bit of practice it’s quick and easy. It is also a good intro to other layered pastry that is more difficult like pie crusts.
Biscuits and gravy.
My friends and I try to get together once every year in a big Airbnb, where we basically just hang out all weekend or a most of a week if we can. We all take turns cooking meals for everyone. Only breakfast and dinner, lunch is a free for all. I always get breakfast for day one. It’s always biscuits and gravy.
The biscuits come from a can, they were put there by a man, in a factory downtown.
But the gravy is homemade. Use a giant pot, put a few pounds of spicy ground sausage in the bottom and brown it up. Leave the grease in, lower the heat, add an amount of flour and stir it in for a few minutes to cook it and make a sort of roux. Then slowly add almost a gallon of whole milk, depending on how much sausage and therefore flour you used.
Stir it very often, gently scrape the bottom, but not aggressively, because you likely burned a little flour on there during the roux phase, too much meat to handle, I haven’t solved this yet. But it’ll be ok.
Once it’s good and hot, almost simmering, kill the heat, let it cool a minute or two, then serve on the biscuits. The consistency should be somewhat thick, like, well, thick gravy. Not watery. When it gets cold in the fridge, you can scoop it out and it holds its shape.
It’s so unhealthy, but people love it. It makes a great breakfast for 10-15 people. Sometimes I’ll do a big pan of eggs simultaneously to go with it. There’s always leftovers of the gravy, but it goes on anything and reheats easily, so it gets eaten over the next few days when random people are randomly hungry. It never gets thrown out.
I’ve tried offering to make other dishes, do dinner instead, or do a different breakfast food. But everyone always begs for the biscuits and gravy. So I oblige.
We do usually end up with a second meal, depending on how many people can make it, so I’ll help my wife with whatever she decides to make for dinner.
spicy sausage everyday, grease fried with flour in the traaaay
This is exactly how I make gravy. I have also started making the biscuits from scratch using a flaky layers recipe I found online; it is a marginal improvement, but the gravy is still the star of the show.
Nice! Care to share your biscuit recipe? I’m not sure I’m ready to give up the can, but it’s on my list of things to try
I saved it to Pocket, which is apparently shut down now, so I am waiting for them to send me my exported list. I will share the recipe if they ever send my exported list, but a few key points are below.
You have to cut the butter into the dry ingredients to make pea sized bits, some people use a food processor but I do it old fashioned with a pastry blender. Then add the wet ingredients, mix, and do a few rounds of rolling and folding and use a small cup or round cutter to cut them out.
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Thanks! Though I worry this is immediately out of my wheelhouse haha. I may stick to the can, for simplicity sake. We’ll see
It sounds harder than it is, with a bit of practice it’s quick and easy. It is also a good intro to other layered pastry that is more difficult like pie crusts.