Sausage, Biscuits & Gravy - Real Serious
Source of Recipe
La Belle Cuisine
List of Ingredients
12 slices bacon
1 pound pork sausage (your choice: plain, sage, hot, or mixture)
2 tablespoons flour
3 cups milk
salt and pepper to taste
1 1/2 teaspoons Kitchen Bouquet (or to color)
2 1/4 cups Bisquick (or other biscuit mix)
2/3 cup water
2 large baking potatoes, baked, chilled
1 medium onion, sliced very thin
1 tablespoon bacon drippings (grease)
1 tablespoon butter
8 eggs
salt and pepper to tasteRecipe
The night before, or the week before if you wish, bake up a couple of potatoes.
No big deal. Scrub the skin, throw them in the oven at 400 F for about an hour.
Let cool, then refrigerate until ready to use. You might want to open a beer for
yourself; remembering that beer is no longer just a breakfast drink. Fry up the
bacon. Set aside and keep warm. Reserve bacon grease in the pan. If there is
an awful lot, you might want to put some in a Mason jar for another meal. In a
small skillet, heat one tablespoon of the bacon grease and a tablespoon of
butter. Add the thinly sliced onion and fry until nicely crisp and brown. Set
aside.
Heat oven to 450 degrees F.
In heavy skillet over medium-high heat, brown sausage. Remove sausage and
keep warm. Add flour. Stir into drippings and cook for 4-5 minutes, letting
the flour brown. Add milk all at once and stir constantly until thickened. Add
Kitchen Bouquet to color (real gravy should not look anemic, right?). Reduce
heat and stir occasionally. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Return sausage
to skillet and keep warm.
Slice up your baked potatoes. Do not bother to peel, just slice them up and
toss into the pan in which you fried the bacon. Salt and pepper to taste. Brown
nicely over medium-high heat.
Meanwhile, make up biscuits. Mix Bisquick and water with a fork. Do not
overwork. Roll or pat out to about 3/4 inch thickness and cut with a biscuit
cutter (or use a small tin can, from which you have cut both ends and drained
the contents). Place on baking sheet. Bake at 450 degrees for 8-10 minutes,
until nicely browned.
And, just to keep yourself busy and out of trouble, fry up some eggs. Your
choice as to how you do them - and remember, this is YOUR kitchen, so do
them as you damned well please.
To plate this extravaganza: Split two biscuits, place on plate. Ladle off a
goodly glob of sausage and gravy. Lay a couple-three strips of bacon over.
Slide in a generous portion of the fried potatoes. Strew a goodly measure
of the fried onions over the potatoes. Finish off with a couple of eggs at the
end of the plate. And do not forget the salt and pepper on the table. This is,
after all, real food, not health food....
Refresh the coffee.
Absorb.
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