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Recipes => Recipes => Breakfast/Brunch Ideas! => Topic started by: bbqchef on May 16, 2013, 10:17:47 AM

Title: Sausage gravy
Post by: bbqchef on May 16, 2013, 10:17:47 AM
Sausage gravy made with buttermilk and sautéed red onions over dropped biscuits and served with country ham...

That's the way to start the day!

(http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums/q616/bbqchef/sausgravy.jpg)

(Just don't tell your cardiologist!)

It would probably be really good with a spicy bloody Mary or mock Mary!

Title: Re: Sausage gravy
Post by: sliding_billy on May 16, 2013, 10:24:53 AM
I think my day would end as quickly as it started since I would need a nap.  :D
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Post by: ACW3 on May 16, 2013, 10:25:37 AM
I could hammer that, with the high test Bloody Mary, of course.

Art
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Post by: drholly on May 16, 2013, 10:26:26 AM
That looks fantastic! All the times I've made sausage gravy or biscuits and gravy, I've never thought to add some onions. I've also never used buttermilk...  :o Thanks for the tips! And I'd bet it would be really good with darn near anything!  :P

David
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Post by: deestafford on May 16, 2013, 10:36:22 AM
Mike, That looks awesome!  I used to make it quiet often.  My problem was I'd get the light blond rue going and it would be what I thought was the right amount until I started adding the milk and then I'd find I needed to add more milk than I  had originally thought.  I kept going back and forth and would end up with enough to feed a squad rather than the three I had planned for. Of course, in order not to be wasteful (after all there are starving children in China and India) I'd have to make sure it was all eaten.
That has got to be one of the best breakfasts of all time.  Dee
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Post by: Hub on May 16, 2013, 10:41:16 AM
Sausage gravy, how do I love thee?  Let me count the ways . . .  ::)

Hub
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Post by: teesquare on May 16, 2013, 10:44:29 AM
Mike - there is hope for you to become an adoptee of Southern Culture!!!! :D

Beautiful gravy.
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Post by: Smokin Don on May 16, 2013, 10:50:42 AM
You got some sausage in that! Just the way I like it!!! Don
Title: Re: Sausage gravy
Post by: deestafford on May 16, 2013, 11:03:07 AM
Mike,  You've gotta move down here to Augusta.  We won't even ask you to get a passport.  I know a good old boy, who knows another good old boy who can get it done.  Dee
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Post by: Rummm on May 16, 2013, 11:32:49 AM
Looks great!!!  :P

I like to use leftover brisket for brisket gravy and biscuits :)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/askabutcher/brisketgravy.jpg)

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Post by: CDN Smoker on May 16, 2013, 01:08:43 PM
I could hammer that, with the high test Bloody Mary, of course.

Art

X2 but switch the drink to one of these

Scale ingredients to   servings 
1 1/2 oz vodka
fill with clamato juice
3 dashes Tabasco® sauce
3 dashes Worcestershire sauce

Line the rim of a glass with salt and pepper. Over ice, add vodka, fill with clamato juice, then add the remaining ingredients. Garnish with a celery stick. Add more tabasco sauce if desired.


Read more: Caesar Cocktail recipe http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink210.html#ixzz2TTaxkjKF
Title: Re: Sausage gravy
Post by: bbqchef on May 16, 2013, 01:57:33 PM
I don't drink alcohol anymore but a great virgin bloody Mary is a good thing! Just need to add some celery salt and it's good to go!

Pickled okra makes a good garnish also.
Title: Re: Sausage gravy
Post by: RickB on May 16, 2013, 03:31:15 PM
Mike, That looks awesome!  I used to make it quiet often.  My problem was I'd get the light blond rue going and it would be what I thought was the right amount until I started adding the milk and then I'd find I needed to add more milk than I  had originally thought.  I kept going back and forth and would end up with enough to feed a squad rather than the three I had planned for. Of course, in order not to be wasteful (after all there are starving children in China and India) I'd have to make sure it was all eaten.
That has got to be one of the best breakfasts of all time.  Dee

Ok Dee gonna make it real easy for you. All you have to remember is 2-2-1. Two Tbsp flour, 2 Tbsp fat and 1 cup milk. Want more double it. 4-4-2. Want it thicker 3-3-1. Just a couple of white sauce basics to remember. Always cook your fat and flour on med low for no less than 5 minutes. Add warm milk not cold. After it comes to a boil reduce heat to low, add seasoning and cook for no less than 5 minutes. Perfect every time.
Title: Sausage gravy
Post by: Pappymn on May 16, 2013, 04:54:46 PM
Boy that looks great. Buttermilk is getting a lot of mentions in various cooks.....it is good stuff that works with a lot of things. Great idea on the gravy.
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Post by: TwoPockets on May 16, 2013, 05:12:15 PM
That is some serious comfort food goodness. I'd eat that.
Title: Sausage gravy
Post by: Scott6049 on May 16, 2013, 06:20:33 PM
WOW! Great looking gravy
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Post by: smokeasaurus on May 16, 2013, 08:06:42 PM
"I just love that white speckly gravy me and Mr. Dillon would get at Delmonicos"
(http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc469/s1cott11/funny%20icons/KGrHqJngFT-ge5FBQP68Ytkp60_35_zps0f1843ce.jpg) (http://s1213.photobucket.com/user/s1cott11/media/funny%20icons/KGrHqJngFT-ge5FBQP68Ytkp60_35_zps0f1843ce.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Sausage gravy
Post by: Keymaster on May 16, 2013, 08:11:57 PM
Great looking stuff, My wife is the gravy master but I may show her up with the 2-2-1 method :)
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Post by: deestafford on May 16, 2013, 11:55:54 PM
RickB, I appreciate the initial simplification of 2-2-1 but then you forgot I was in the Infantry and you started with all that doubling and 4-4-2 and lost me.  :-[ Now my head hurts. :(  Dee
Title: Re: Sausage gravy
Post by: bbqchef on May 17, 2013, 05:54:57 AM
If you don't have buttermilk put 1 tablespoon of white vinegar in one-cup measuring cup and fill with whole milk. Let it sit out on the counter for a couple of hours and you have mock buttermilk.
Title: Re: Sausage gravy
Post by: drholly on May 17, 2013, 09:46:35 AM
If you don't have buttermilk put 1 tablespoon of white vinegar in one-cup measuring cup and fill with whole milk. Let it sit out on the counter for a couple of hours and you have mock buttermilk.

Great tip - thank you!
Title: Sausage gravy
Post by: mikecorn.1 on May 17, 2013, 08:56:34 PM
That looks ridiculously good!


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Title: Re: Sausage gravy
Post by: GusRobin on May 18, 2013, 01:48:17 AM

Ok Dee gonna make it real easy for you. All you have to remember is 2-2-1. Two Tbsp flour, 2 Tbsp fat and 1 cup milk. Want more double it. 4-4-2. Want it thicker 3-3-1. Just a couple of white sauce basics to remember. Always cook your fat and flour on med low for no less than 5 minutes. Add warm milk not cold. After it comes to a boil reduce heat to low, add seasoning and cook for no less than 5 minutes. Perfect every time.
Rick -dumb question but what do you use as "fat" --lard?
Title: Re: Sausage gravy
Post by: bbqchef on May 18, 2013, 07:18:00 AM
You can use any "fat" that you want... bacon grease, Crisco, butter, oil, whatever. It all works the same.

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Post by: BMC.ret on May 18, 2013, 06:04:39 PM
Looks really good. My favorite breakfast but only once in awhile since I retired and don't work it off like I used to.
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Post by: slow q on May 20, 2013, 05:22:08 AM
Now that looks great, I love me some bisquits and gravy, anytime of the day, with seconds