My 3 Monsters: Biscuits & Sausage Gravy

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6.12.2013

Biscuits & Sausage Gravy

Delicious Biscuits and Sausage Gravy recipe at /  
Hi friends!!  Thanks for stopping by today.  Did you see my guest post on I Heart Nap Time yesterday?  If not, take a sec to check out my delicious Pina Colada Smoothies over there and then come back.  I'll wait.

Yesterday's recipe was super summer-y and pretty healthy.  Today I want to share one of my favorite comfort foods in the whole world -- Biscuits and Sausage Gravy.  It is not light and cool to help you beat the heat.  Sorry.  Neither is it light on the calories to make you look cool in a swimsuit . . in the heat.  It is, however, the single happiest food that I ever get to eat.  Nothing takes me back to the cozy days of my childhood like biscuits and sausage gravy.  That's why I brave my hot kitchen to whip these bad boys up -- even in the summertime sometimes.

Growing up I don't think I ever knew a single other family who ate sausage gravy.  {Plus, I didn't know it was a breakfast food until, like, college since we always ate it for dinner.}  I was fairly certain that my mom was the genius who invented this heavenly food and I loved her for it.  I didn't know at the time that every family in the South enjoyed the same delightful tradition.  Now I carry the tradition forward in my own home and it is one of our favorite meals, too.

In just the past year or so I have been introduced to 7-Up Biscuits.  Have you had these magical things?!  They are a perfect combination of Bisquick, sour cream 7-Up soda, and butter.  OK, so those things sound absolutely terrible together, but you mix 'em up, cut 'em out with a cup and something miraculous happens in the oven.  They turn out perfectly light, moist and flaky every. Single. Time.  I always follow this recipe I found at Plain Chicken.  Good Biscuits and Gravy starts with good biscuits, for sure.

Did I ever tell you that one night when I couldn't sleep I watched a documentary about biscuits because I thought that would certainly be boring enough to help me out.  But I watched the entire show.  I. Love. Biscuits.

Delicious Biscuits and Sausage Gravy recipe at /

Now, the Sausage Gravy.  My mom's recipe is super simple, but it is by far the best I have ever tried.  You won't believe how easy it is.  Really.

My Mama's Sausage Gravy

2 lbs. breakfast sausage {the bulk kind in a roll}
1/4 C. butter
1/4 C. flour
5 C. milk
pepper, onion powder, garlic salt to taste

Brown sausage in an electric skillet or frying pan.  Set sausage aside in a bowl and drain grease.  In the same skillet, melt butter.  Stir in flour to make a thick paste.  Cook the paste for a few minutes until it turns a golden brown color.  Gradually whisk in milk and bring to a boil, stirring constantly, until gravy thickens.  Season with pepper, onion powder, and garlic salt to taste.  {NOTE:  It takes more seasoning than you might expect to keep the gravy from tasting too bland.  Just keep sprinkling and tasting until you like it.}  Stir browned sausage into the gravy and serve over biscuits.

My brothers all served two-year missions for our church in different parts of the world.  When they returned home, biscuits and gravy was one of the first meals they all asked for.  Whenever I have a rough day -- like when I drop my iPhone and break the screen, for instance -- biscuits and gravy is what I want to drown my sorrows in.  Even in the heat of summer.  Like I did today.

Come back tomorrow to see the fun summer-y felt wreath I made with my little felt birds.  Have a great day!!

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