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Finally got cold enough here in Charleston to remind me of home. So I made a batch of biscuits this morning since I had a long weekend. My specialties are skillet and cat's head biscuits, but I'm not above using Bisquick when I'm having to do a lot. I refuse to use whomp (canned) biscuits! What's y'all's favorite side with biscuits? My top 5 are:

1. Sorghum
2. Grape preserves (homemade from my Aunt Dorothy)
3. Sausage gravy
4. Red-eye gravy
5. Plain butter
 
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My go-to frozen biscuits. From scratch is great but I'm a busy boy.

Sausage gravy is great if from scratch, but I prefer a simple egg+cheese biscuit. Add bacon or sausage if around, but not necessary at all.
 
Originally posted by LordEgg:
sawmill/sausage gravy...done right, it can't be beat.
home made preserves with real butter
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The problem is that everyone has a different interpretation of what "done right" is. My wife basically likes white, smooth gravy.......basically I describe it as bland flour mixed with warm milk......to me it's tasteless. But others like it that way as well. I prefer a very robust, sausage gravy with some seasoning.
 
Originally posted by LordEgg:
sawmill/sausage gravy...done right, it can't be beat.
home made preserves with real butter
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Egg...swap that home made preserves with some apple butter..

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Never made biscuits in my life, but I may just give it a go this weekend. I CAN make terrific sausage gravy though.

My top:

1. sausage gravy
2.molasses, or sorghum if you prefer
3. blackberry jam
4. red eye gravy
5. grape jelly & butter
 
Originally posted by BlueRaider22:
Originally posted by LordEgg:
sawmill/sausage gravy...done right, it can't be beat.
home made preserves with real butter
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The problem is that everyone has a different interpretation of what "done right" is. My wife basically likes white, smooth gravy.......basically I describe it as bland flour mixed with warm milk......to me it's tasteless. But others like it that way as well. I prefer a very robust, sausage gravy with some seasoning.
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Agree with you. If I can't smell the seasoning and see the sausage in the gravy, it ain't done right.

18 in Charleston this morning. Shattered the record cold temp. Whipped up my biscuits, fried some eggs, heated up some leftover pulled pork, broke out Aunt Dorothy's preserves and ate myself into a coma! No lunch necessary.
 
1. White gravy/sausage gravy/whatever you want to call it.
2. Chocolate gravy
3. Bacon and cheese
4. Fried apples
5. Homemade jam.
 
Originally posted by GhostVol:
What's y'all's favorite side with biscuits?
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SausageCountry hamHome made pear preservesHome made strawberry preservesSquirrel. Yes, squirrel. Take the meat from 3-4 squirrels, quarter 8-10 biscuits, put in a crock pot...a few hours later VOILA! squirrel dumplings.
 
Originally posted by UK_Norm:
Split the biscuit
Lay an over-easy egg on top
cover in sausage gravy
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Sounds like Food porn, Norm. 50 Shades??


I do like the hipster touch of adding spinach and some fancy cheese to my breakkie sammichs
 
Originally posted by GhostVol:



Originally posted by BlueRaider22:


Originally posted by LordEgg:
sawmill/sausage gravy...done right, it can't be beat.
home made preserves with real butter
Click to expand...
The problem is that everyone has a different interpretation of what "done right" is. My wife basically likes white, smooth gravy.......basically I describe it as bland flour mixed with warm milk......to me it's tasteless. But others like it that way as well. I prefer a very robust, sausage gravy with some seasoning.
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Agree with you. If I can't smell the seasoning and see the sausage in the gravy, it ain't done right.

18 in Charleston this morning. Shattered the record cold temp. Whipped up my biscuits, fried some eggs, heated up some leftover pulled pork, broke out Aunt Dorothy's preserves and ate myself into a coma! No lunch necessary.
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GV,
You ain't lying. It's COLD. I'm still in an extended stay hotel. We have decided to build out in Cane Bay.

On the gravy, it's all in your renderings....gotta cook up a slurry of; bacon grease/ sausage grease; flour, salt, pepper, and I like adding a little sage....let it brown some while stirring hard and you will have some decent gravy once you add a little water and millk and bring it to a boil.... Yes...

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1) Country Ham
2) Sausage Gravy
3) Apple Butter
4) Grape Jelly
5) Nutella and Bananas
 
Not a breakfast fan, but if I'm going to have biscuits, it's strawberry jam. Prefer a croissant or yeast roll, doh.

I know.

I suck.
 
Originally posted by funKYcat75:
Not a breakfast fan, but if I'm going to have biscuits, it's strawberry jam. Prefer a croissant or yeast roll, doh.

I know.

I suck.
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Hey,
I'm not prejuidiced. I like those too. Fry a couple eggs over easy with any of them and you got a meal.
 
Originally posted by TransyCat09:


Originally posted by funKYcat75:
Prefer a croissant
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Raspberry jam filled croissant with powdered sugar from the french bakery across the street from me
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When I drink's whiskey, I drink's whiskey; when I drink water, I drink water. -M. Og Flynn

When I eat steak, I eat steak; when I eat cake, I eat cake. -Me
 
Any man that can work The Quiet Man quotes into the conversation and that has a Duke avatar is awesome in my book. Well done.
 
Originally posted by BlueRaider22:
Any man that can work The Quiet Man quotes into the conversation and that has a Duke avatar is awesome in my book. Well done.
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Thanks but I actually work other people's stuff in with John Wayne.
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Originally posted by Willy4UK:

Originally posted by funKYcat75:
Prefer a croissant
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Funky, did you know that the croissant wasn't invented in France, but rather, Austria?
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Probably by; crois-arnold....
 
Originally posted by funKYcat75:


Originally posted by Willy4UK:

Originally posted by funKYcat75:
Prefer a croissant
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Funky, did you know that the croissant wasn't invented in France, but rather, Austria?
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Well, then G'day mate. Let's put another shrimp on the barbie.
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Get off here with that Rick talk...
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So how do you make your gravy?

I'm from the south ( think we all are)I could make it when I was 7 yrs old. My grandma showed me how to do, it took several lumpy editions to get it right.

Always start with bacon grease, ALWAYS...then I add sausage. I love sausage gravy.

I literally fix this 1 or 2 times a week, but I prefer soft bread as opposed to biscuits. I like them, but prefer with jelly.

My grandma always put coffee in her gravy too..

Speaking of Jelly. what is your favorite? Mine is Black Raspberry. My grandmas/moms was the best. I miss that

I'm hungry now. Thanks ahoooooolllllssssss.
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If someone has a soup-to-nuts homemade/down home recipe for authentic sausage gravy & biscuits - it would be appreciated.

Sausage gravy, whipped butter, Sorghum, Brown Co Indiana apple butter, soft-boiled eggs, stewed blueberries over a split biscuit.... Hiyo.
 
Jelly power rankings:

1. Strawberry
2. Grape
3. Mixed Fruit
4. Apple
5. Blackberry

If it's jam, move Blackberry up to second and take grape off the damn list, replaced by peach.
 
Originally posted by BlueRaider22:
Originally posted by LordEgg:
sawmill/sausage gravy...done right, it can't be beat.
home made preserves with real butter
Click to expand...
The problem is that everyone has a different interpretation of what "done right" is. My wife basically likes white, smooth gravy.......basically I describe it as bland flour mixed with warm milk......to me it's tasteless. But others like it that way as well. I prefer a very robust, sausage gravy with some seasoning.
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Taste depends on your grease. If you fry some sausage and use the grease left over,or fried chicken, then the gravy has a good taste.
 
Man, biscuits baked the right way = one of my guilty pleasures. Warm out of the oven with a soft crust is gold. Then I go all ballistic and shit, and add all sorts of unhealthy fats (butter) + toppings. Once or twice annually. Both my grandmas baked some kick-ass biscuits from scratch.

We may bake some biscuits tomorrow morning. Lordy, I must stop, STOP, reading these GD threads. Yeah, oatmeal, at cheap Texas prices ($3.29/42 oz TX versus $5.39/42 oz FL) gets old after eating that stuff 5x a week, even when you get creative with peanut butter and fruit.
 
Probably one Sunday a month every month since I was old enough to remember, until last January when my grandma passed away. Pair it with fried chicken, either on the side, or on the biscuit itself with a slice of cheese, cover with gravy, then wake up from your coma.

It amazes me sometimes that anyone in the south lives to be 30.
 
Originally posted by Kooky Kats:
If someone has a soup-to-nuts homemade/down home recipe for authentic sausage gravy & biscuits - it would be appreciated.

Sausage gravy, whipped butter, Sorghum, Brown Co Indiana apple butter, soft-boiled eggs, stewed blueberries over a split biscuit.... Hiyo.
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This is how my grandmother, and my mother made/make it: as someone else said, start with bacon grease. Fry up some sausage and use some of that grease as well. Allow it to get hot, then add your flour. Stir constantly, adding salt and pepper to taste. (Won't need a lot).

Let your grease & flour mixture to thicken and ALMOST burn, this is the key to top notch gravy I've learned. Then, crumble a half, or a whole cooked sausage patty into the mixture. Now you're ready to add your milk. (I never use water, btw) Slowly add the milk and stir constantly while allowing this to come to a full boil. Once it begins boiling, reduce the temp to low and allow it to simmer and thicken. Just as it begins to thicken remove from heat. Done.
 
Originally posted by starchief5:
Anybody ever had buttermilk gravy? Sounds weird but my mother made it as a treat occasionally. After I left home years ago I've never met anyone who ever heard of it
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I add a little bit of buttermilk to mine every now and then. Especially if I run out of milk or cream. My biscuits have to be buttermilk though.

The best gravy I've ever made, I use heavy whipping cream instead of milk. It's the really healthy version.
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My opinion is that good sausage gravy is a light brown and not a pristine white. Got to get all the bits and pieces of meat off the bottom of the pan.
 
1. Sausage gravy with lots of pepper and chunks of Purnell's smoked sausage;
2. Purnell's smoked sausage
3. Ripe "mater" and bacon grease. When I was a kid, Mom wouldn't let me have the bacon grease, so I'd sneak a little on my plate when she wasn't looking. Always hated it when Mom tried to keep me healthy.
4. Enough butter to have it dripping off the biscuit, down my arms and off my elbows.

When I was a kid, my aunt and uncle used to make their own smoked sausage. A few years ago, I came across Purnells. I have stomach orgasms when I eat that stuff.
 
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