Need Sausage Gravy Recipe

[greeneyed]

Biscuits and gravy are an anytime thing. We have them for dinner with regularity.

X2 It is great, because dinner can be done in 10-15 minutes.

 

[dataz722]

Or instead of biscuits a lot of times I will put it over eggs and hashbrowns. Damn, I am really starting to get hungry and I just ate.

 

[jgln]

It is more of a southern thing but we aren't exactly in the great north. Maybe its because I grew up in and my family was mostly from the "country".


edit- have you ever had chip beef gravy? That is kind of the yankee version.

Like creamed beef? As a kid I never found it appetizing. As an adult I have never tried it again.

No excuse for not knowing or tasting other foods but my family is Irish, Scottish, Welch and English up and down. We grew up primarily under Irish and Italian influences. Typical Irish meat and potatoes family. The only southern people I really came into contact with were on TV like the Beverly Hillbillies.

I did have pigfarms back up to our yard for several years growing up before they were abandoned, but most of us were just Philly transplants not farmers. Sometimes they would get loose in our yard.

Today my menu has broadened somewhat of course.

Biscuits growing up were pretty much served with stew at dinner or at Thanksgiving with Turkey. My mom used to drop uncooked biscuit dough into beef stew near the end of cooking to make dumplings too

 

[jgln]

X2 It is great, because dinner can be done in 10-15 minutes.

My mom would often make pancakes and sausage for dinner. Then again she would throw some sauerkraut on hotdogs and call it dinner. We were not poor but not rich either and we were a big one income family.

 

[dataz722]

I don't know if it is the same as creamed beef. It is little bits of dried and cured beef (pretty much thin jerkey but without nearly as much flavor) in white gravy. Its usually served over toast or biscuits. Also known as sos or sh!t on a shingle.

 

[jgln]

I don't know if it is the same as creamed beef. It is little bits of dried and cured beef (pretty much thin jerkey but without nearly as much flavor) in white gravy. Its usually served over toast or biscuits. Also known as sos or sh!t on a shingle.

I think it is. I think beef in white gravy instead of brown turned me off as a kid. Back then it came in a sealed boil bag just like sliced beef and turkey did in gravy. Serve either hot on 2 slices of white bread. Next best thing to TV dinners back then. I love my working class roots.

 

[Wellshooter]

The use of tomatoes to make sauces (Italian gravy) is pretty common around here. No different than what you put on pizza, lasagna or spaghetti. Order a sausage sandwich (excluding breakfast sandwiches) it will usually come in tomato sauce. That is unless you are ordering a hot sausage link sandwich (hot dog shape), then it will come plain but with whatever toppings you like.

I think we are using two entirely different definitions of gravy here.

 

[jgln]

I think we are using two entirely different definitions of gravy here.

That was me explaining it is not ketchup on the sausage. Many Italians call what most of us call tomato sauce gravy. To me gravy is made with beef, turkey or chicken drippings.

 

[jgln]

Tomato based gravy? Must be one of those ketchup on eggs things...

....and yes, I do sometimes put ketchup on scrambled eggs.

 

[david_42]

I don't remember my mother ever making gravy and biscuits. Breakfast was mostly oatmeal or cold cereal, depending on the weather. Maybe waffles on a weekend. She did make SoS. Dad loved it. I don't.

Biscuits and gravy are a big deal around here. The local restaurants have them available all day.

 

[hamiltont]

I don't know if it is the same as creamed beef. It is little bits of dried and cured beef (pretty much thin jerkey but without nearly as much flavor) in white gravy. Its usually served over toast or biscuits. Also known as sos or sh!t on a shingle.

HA!! We used to eat SOS all the time. Loved it!!! Sometimes it was called chipped beef on toast.

As far as the Sausage Gravy goes ours is pretty much like those listed above. Lots of coarse pepper. Sometimes I'll add some sage and/or crushed fennel just to mix it up.

My stomach started growling when I read through the posts. No Kidding!!!

 

[dataz722]

I am wanting some chicken fried steak so damn bad right now. Screw you guys!

 

[greeneyed]

Anyone else ever had chocolate gravy and biscuits? mmmm

 

[jgln]

Anyone else ever had chocolate gravy and biscuits? mmmm

That does not sound good, but then again I am not a big chocolate lover.

 

[user 22118]

I could litterally pour sausage gravy on my hat and eat it! I went to a fried chicken place and ordered up...the fried chicken and grits with a biscuit on the side. I asked the waitress for some gravy and she looked at me funny, I said, for the biscuit. She said, ok and returned with something akin to chicken gravy for potatoes, but the powdered version. I didn't need that, I wanted sausage country gravy!

Live and learn I say

 

[dataz722]

I've never heard of it but I have a feeling it isn't really chocolate.

 

[user 22118]

Like a rocky mountain oyster or prairie oysters aren't from the ocean? That what you mean?

 

[jgln]

I've never heard of it but I have a feeling it isn't really chocolate.

It is and it is real

 

[dataz722]

I could litterally pour sausage gravy on my hat and eat it! I went to a fried chicken place and ordered up...the fried chicken and grits with a biscuit on the side. I asked the waitress for some gravy and she looked at me funny, I said, for the biscuit. She said, ok and returned with something akin to chicken gravy for potatoes, but the powdered version. I didn't need that, I wanted sausage country gravy!

Live and learn I say

I've never heard of a fried chicken place to have sausage gravy before. I would have expected them to just give whatever gravy they use on the mashed potatoes.

 

[greeneyed]

It is basically just regular cream gravy with cocoa powder in it.

 

[jgln]

I could litterally pour sausage gravy on my hat and eat it! I went to a fried chicken place and ordered up...the fried chicken and grits with a biscuit on the side. I asked the waitress for some gravy and she looked at me funny, I said, for the biscuit. She said, ok and returned with something akin to chicken gravy for potatoes, but the powdered version. I didn't need that, I wanted sausage country gravy!

Live and learn I say

Come to think of it the gravy offered with fast food chicken joints up here is just that, chicken gravy.

 

[dataz722]

It is basically just regular cream gravy with cocoa powder in it.

Doesn't really sound too appealing to me. I would probably try it though.

 

[arturo7]

Damn, all this talk of biscuits and gravy, chicken fried steak, grits, fried chicken...

Glad I'm headed to St Louis for the holidays. You just can't find this stuff done proper in SoCal.

 

[dataz722]

You just can't find this stuff done proper in SoCal.

I know the feeling. I live close enough to the "south" to know all about these amazing things but far enough away that everything around here sucks.

 

[jgln]

I know the feeling. I live close enough to the "south" to know all about these amazing things but far enough away that everything around here sucks.

There is a soul food place in Camden called "Corrine’s" the guys here have gone to a couple times to bring back and the portions were nuts. I got the meatloaf and it was easily several pounds and covered in brown gravy not tomato gravy. I think they are family portions; I ate on that thing for a week. I picked up an order of ox tails for my fiancee (she is Ukrainian, she eats anything and everything). It was really salty and spicy though, not hot spicy like I enjoy though, just highly seasoned.

EDIT: Several pounds.

 

[user 22118]

As mentioned before, I can't stand everyone making it with a premade mix that just sits around all morning. It tastes bad man. I have heard of a good way to get the richness and not have to worry about the volume is to use evaporated milk, not condensed. It gives a lot of flavor, but not the total volume, so you can make a little less.

 

[user 22118]

The real kicker is making it with some homemade sausage. I have some garlic jalapeno sausage that I made up and it is AWESOME in biscuits and gravy.

 

[hamiltont]

There is a soul food place in Camden called "Corrine’s" the guys here have gone to a couple times to bring back and the portions were nuts. I got the meatloaf and it was easily several pounds and covered in brown gravy not tomato gravy. I think they are family portions; I ate on that thing for a week. I picked up an order of ox tails for my fiancee (she is Ukrainian, she eats anything and everything). It was really salty and spicy though, not hot spicy like I enjoy though, just highly seasoned.

EDIT: Several pounds.

MMMMM..... Ox Tail Soup. That's to die for!!!

 

[dataz722]

There is a soul food place in Camden called "Corrine’s" the guys here have gone to a couple times to bring back and the portions were nuts. I got the meatloaf and it was easily several pounds and covered in brown gravy not tomato gravy. I think they are family portions; I ate on that thing for a week. I picked up an order of ox tails for my fiancee (she is Ukrainian, she eats anything and everything). It was really salty and spicy though, not hot spicy like I enjoy though, just highly seasoned.

EDIT: Several pounds.

Yeah, we have a few "soul food" places that pop up every now and then around here. They have all sucked and don't last more than 1 or 2 years. I went to one and got a baby back rib sandwich. I assumed they would have taken the meat off the bones but nope just cut off a slab and tossed it on a roll. I really wish we had more bbq places around here too.

 

[user 22118]

I made up the biscuits and gravy for Xmas morning and ended up eating some odd six biscuits and a half an english muffin. Fecking superb eating I say. Two pounds of sausage, half gallon of milk, 1/4 cup flour and half a stick of butter. Ground black pepper, salt and red pepper flakes and it was done. I really really really like it. Getting hungry just thinking of it.