Biscuits and Gravy? I'm your huckleberry.... :-)

[WapitiTalk1]

Epic biscuits and gravy, I think you’ll like this.  Track down some Pioneer Country Sausage Flavored Gravy Mix (Amazon, Walmart carries this) – makes 2 cups per packet. Fry up a full container of James Dean regular snausage in a skillet, drain the grease… put the chopped-up bits (chop em up as you fry it) in the Pioneer Gravy once you’ve prepared that.   Now for the biscuits, do not use store bought biscuits in a can you wild bohemians…. Do em up like this.  Stage a 10” cast iron skillet in your cooking area, I know you have one of those.  Put ½ stick of butter in the freezer for at least 15 minutes.  Put 2 cups of self-rising flour in a medium mixing bowl.  Put ½ stick of butter on the stove in a small pan to melt on low heat.  Grate the previously frozen, grated butter into the flour… mix with a big old fork until blended.  You should have your oven preheated to 425 at this time.  Mix one cup of buttermilk into your flour/butter batter… use your hands inside of food quality gloves of course, to mix, roll, fold all the ingredients together.  Form/put around 8 2+” drops of dough into the greased skillet (I use olive oil), drizzle that melted butter on the biscuit blobs and throw em in the oven for 17 minutes.  Please try this and let me know what you think  (grin).  A suitable side for this is a well-executed shroom, cheese, diced red onion, mixed peppers, and tomato omelet but that’s for another story. I hope you enjoy             

[wadu1]

Don't forget the Cholula Hot Sauce for the top.

[WapitiTalk1]

Don't forget the Cholula Hot Sauce for the top.

Crap cakes, I didn’t mention the Cholula Chipotle? I’ll do 50 old guy push ups to
Repent 

[HntnFsh]

Ive just never understood having a tasty meal in front of me, then smothering it with hot sauce. Why worry about the good flavor of something if your going to overwhelm it with a sauce that is going to keep you from tasting it?
 Its funny, I see people I know put hot sauce on most of what they eat. I like a little hot sauce, but just for very specific foods, and in moderation.

[Angry Perch]

Ive just never understood having a tasty meal in front of me, then smothering it with hot sauce. Why worry about the good flavor of something if your going to overwhelm it with a sauce that is going to keep you from tasting it?
 Its funny, I see people I know put hot sauce on most of what they eat. I like a little hot sauce, but just for very specific foods, and in moderation.

I don't think of it as covering up flavor as much as adding to it. 

[Fidelk]

Kills off intestinal worms also.

[asmith]

Cant believe you started a post about 'Epic' biscuits and gravy, then proceeded to use a packet for your gravy. 

My wife makes swimming butter biscuits and from scratch pepper sausage gravy.  It is the BEST around

[wadu1]

Ive just never understood having a tasty meal in front of me, then smothering it with hot sauce. Why worry about the good flavor of something if your going to overwhelm it with a sauce that is going to keep you from tasting it?
 Its funny, I see people I know put hot sauce on most of what they eat. I like a little hot sauce, but just for very specific foods, and in moderation.

Maybe it's an Army thing? Ever had powdered eggs and grease strips (canned bacon) served from a Mermite Can in the back of a jeep and stale white bread. Or cold C-Rats on a field trip? Old habits tend to stay with you. 

[mcrawfordaf]

We've used this flakey buttermilk biscuit recipe https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/bas-best-buttermilk-biscuits I found in a magazine several years ago and haven't strayed away since. You kneed layers of dough on top of each other over and over to form almost a pull away flakey dough. And a super simple sawmill gravy - maybe some all-purpose seasoning we might have on hand and a dash of red pepper flakes https://altonbrown.com/recipes/sawmill-gravy/

Couple dashes of Tobasco 

[Angry Perch]

Cant believe you started a post about 'Epic' biscuits and gravy, then proceeded to use a packet for your gravy. 

My wife makes swimming butter biscuits and from scratch pepper sausage gravy.  It is the BEST around

My Dad was on a quest for the best biscuits and gravy recipe in his last decade or so. Mind you, this is a guy who liked his eggs scrambled hard and his steak well done. He finally found the perfect "recipe": Libby's canned sausage gravy and Pillsbury biscuits. 

[ducks4days]

Cant believe you started a post about 'Epic' biscuits and gravy, then proceeded to use a packet for your gravy. 

My wife makes swimming butter biscuits and from scratch pepper sausage gravy.  It is the BEST around

 

Cook 1lb sausage until almost done. Add a couple tablespoons of flour and 1/2 tablespoon of black pepper. Cook until the flour and fat form a roux, then add milk.  Mix well until thickened. Throw in salt, garlic powder, hot sauce, etc. to taste. I like adding red pepper for spice, sage if im feeling fancy.

I cant bake, but my wife makes some epic biscuits. Im pretty sure its close to wapititalk1's recipe.

[NOCK NOCK]

Cant believe you started a post about 'Epic' biscuits and gravy, then proceeded to use a packet for your gravy. 

My wife makes swimming butter biscuits and from scratch pepper sausage gravy.  It is the BEST around

I'll second the packet "pioneer" gravy. so easy and VERY good.  My mother was an incredible cook, and I like pioneer gravy better than hers.

As for biscuits, homemade are best, BUT, Grands frozen (not the tube ones) are a very close second. Most people who eat mine think they were homemade.

[bigdub257]

Red Lobster biscuit mix with grated cheese inside and garlic/herb butter brushed on top is our favorite.

[Threewolves]

Great I was going to have a bowl of cereal then I read this.  It ALL sounds terrific. I would eat it all.  The only kinda odd SOS i ever had was eating out of kitchen in Honduras It was normal SOS with pieces of green pepper added and of course I still ate it.

I like places that have it. There is a drive through coffee shop that was serving it here in Lacey. That Tucannon valley gas pumps. And, oddley a Toyota dealership in Tumwater. Get your coffee and your SOS.

[OutHouse]

This is making me hungry. I keep envisioning a half biscuit hitting the plate, then a fried egg on top, and then a massive dollop of gravy plopped down over all of it. Repeat two more times and I'd have my feast. Thanks for sharing!

[Jason]

You all should be ashamed for not posting any photos of your biscuits and gravy.

Here’s my homemade sausage gravy from last weekend.

[wadu1]

You all should be ashamed for not posting any photos of your biscuits and gravy.

Here’s my homemade sausage gravy from last weekend.

Point well taken

[WapitiTalk1]

Umm, yum! 

[Buckhunter24]

That's the kind of sausage to gravy ratio I'm looking for, looks good 

[ghosthunter]

B&G just ins t ever on the menu at camp or home.

I brought a can of B&G , Chef Mate to camp once. Never got ate, threw it in the food box and it made the trip to camp every year. Never got ate. About seven years latter someone started looking at the date and said no way. So rather than pack it home we dated with a sharpie and during tear down stashed in some ones truck.

Few days later I would get a call from the guy who found it unpacking his truck. It made it to camp for another 10 years always going home with some one else.

Finally one guy who got it for the 2 nd time, opened it and dumped in a hole behind the out house.

That guy moved to Idaho, and now five years latter he drew a Moose tag. So I am going over to run a camp for him and in my truck will be a gallon of B&G gravy to leave in his truck.

[TCHunter25]

To really improve your homemade gravy, replace part of your milk with evaporated (not sweetened condensed) milk.  Makes it even richer than with regular milk.

[JDArms1240]

Spicy chorizo gravy

You can easily scale this up and make it for more people, I’ve made up to 6 lbs of meat which is a LOT of gravy.  Also I don’t go by a recipe so all this for you, as it has been for me, will be a little trial and error.

I like to buy hemplers chorizo or the chorizo from the butcher counter at the grocery store, do not buy the cheap chorizo in the tube or you will NOT like this recipe and probably curse me.

1. 1lb chorizo
2. 1/2 habanero, finely chopped
3. 1 jalapeño or Fresno pepper, I prefer Fresno, coarsely chopped
4. Whole Anaheim pepper/hatch chili, if it is a hatch then only use half, since hatches are usually a little more spicy.  Coarsely chopped
5. A little chopped up onion
6. Your favorite pancake mix powder, I use snoqualmie
7. About 1/4 pint heavy cream
8. Whole milk
9. Salt to taste, when I’m making chorizo gravy I use less salt than regular country gravy
10. Pepper to taste

Throw a little butter in the bottom of a pan and let ‘er sizzle a little, then throw in the onions and peppers, let them sizzle a little till the onions start to get translucent.  Now throw in the meat, fry that till done, personally I like to overcook it a little when I’m making gravy. I don’t drain the oil since the chorizo I buy isn’t as greasy as the cheap stuff, that said, if there is a LOT of oil then soak a little bit of it up. Once the meat is done then throw in a little salt, not a lot, if you don’t put enough in then it’s easy enough to put more in later. Then pepper. THEN take a couple tablespoons of snoqualmie pancake mix (again, it’s easier to add a little more later if you need it) and mix it in real well, so there is no dry mix left. Once that is mixed well then dump in heavy cream and then the milk to your desired gravy thickness, I like chunky. 

Stir this often and let simmer while you make your biscuits.  I never start biscuits until the gravy is done, that way it all has time to marinate together. 

Speaking of biscuits, here is the best way to make those:

1. Be gainfully employed
2. With the earnings from your job securely in your pocket, go to your favorite grocery store
3. Purchase some pilsbury biscuits
4. Cook as instructed on the package
5. Enjoy

[JDArms1240]

I should say, i felt like a real dork taking pictures of my food.  An act that I sometimes goof on other people for doing 

[ducks4days]

I should say, i felt like a real dork taking pictures of my food.  An act that I sometimes goof on other people for doing 

Oh Lordy. That looks good.