Biscuits & gravy for breakfast

[LindsayDunn228]

I'm also a southern girl raised on biscuits and gravy - yummy! If you want real biscuits and gravy, the good stuff, stop by Kentucky!

Stop by just east of Chattanooga and you'll get good stuff too!!!

ETA: Kaycee, your recipe sounds exactly like mine and it's how my grandmother taught me

 

[krissy2803]

I am from Illinois and have lived in IN, KS, LA, and TX. I love biscuits and gravy - can't have them except as a special treat as they pack on the pounds. I had no idea there were places that didn't have them? Now that is STRANGE.

I hear ya..I grew up in TX..

 

[tinkerrn]

Well, I'm from Eastern Kentucky, but our gravy was always the much thicker variety with lots of sausage chunks and a brownish tint to the gravy from the drippings. I've seen the kind you described that your fiancee's family makes, the milky-white thin gravy with very little sausage. But that's not real Kentucky gravy, no matter what end of the state you're from, in my opinion! And you are absolutely right when you say we never use Crisco - yuck!

My gravy is very basic. It's my grandma's recipe, and it just doesn't get any better than that. I fry the sausage patties (in a cast iron skillet of course), crumble them, add flour to the sausage and drippings, then gradually stir in milk to get just the right thickness. I add pepper and salt to taste. I like mine fairly peppery. There aren't any exact measurements to this kind of cooking, and it's something you learn from trial and error. Thank goodness I spent many mornings watching my grandma so that I can now make perfect gravy!

That sounds just like my grannys recipe!!!! Good southern cooks at their best!!!!! My mouth is watering reading your post!!!! I actually dreamed of sausage gravy and biscuits last nite. Have to get momma to whip up a batch of her sausage and gravy before I head off next week to get married and honeymoon at WDW! Might have to look at trying to get some ADRs for WCC for breakfast, wonder if Boatwrights have SG & B????

What about biscuits???? I like the light and fluffy ones. I am probably going to have rocks thrown at me, but Pillsbury has some that are frozen. They aren't too bad, not as good as my families though.

 

[indigoxtreme]

At the food court in POFQ my DS had some last week and he said it was good. Yes you have to have the home made biscuit to get the really good combination of B&G. You have to use an Iron Skillet too. (Maybe just tradition, but somehow taste better) Georgia born and raised. The local cafe in my hometown has come wonderful gravy, both no meat and sausage. Longstreet Cafe if any of you get to Gainesville, GA 1 hr noth of Atlanta

 

[i like stitch]

Being a midwest girl, I love my biscuits and gravy. I seldom eat them because of the fat and flour content but sure enjoy them when I do!

I also love the gravy on fries. There's nothing better than biscuits/gravy except a good steak with fries and cream gravy on the side!

 

[StaceyA]

I also love the gravy on fries. There's nothing better than biscuits/gravy except a good steak with fries and cream gravy on the side!

Whenever I go to the local diner I get a Cheeseburger platter and always have Gravy and cheese on the fries...YUM

 

[dyna]

Bein from Barely Indiana, Nearly Kentucky I agree no crisco for the gravy and it has to be made in iron skillet!!!!!!!

Don't know what that stuff is at Cracker Barrel but it not good sausage gravy YUCK same with the fast food chains and all that canned gravy.

BTW the sausage gravy is best if ya make it the night before and let the flavor of the sausage go thru the gravy don't do that to often tho.

NO canned biscuits either !!!!!!!!!!! YUCK and I get FREE canned biscuits at my house by the case kids bake them every now and then but I NEVER EVER use them give most away.

I've seen the poor folks use their drippings or crisco and flour and water YUCK gotta have MILK!!!!!. Prefer my gravy on the thick side as well no soggy biscuits for me EWWWWWW

Better clarify that the gravy not a brown gravy like served with beef it white or light brown prefer mine light brown. It's entirely different from brown gravy served with beef.

The gravy also good with fried chicken and pork chops YUMMY!!!!!!! Maybe a fresh homemade biscuit on the side with some mashed taters the taters YUMMY with the gravy mixed in.

And when I was just a little sprout had a aunt that lived on a farm she had cows and we got milk and cream from her that was the best milk for gravy.

Momma didn't know no better at the time she used to beat that creme up from the milk sweeten it with sugar and add cinnamon and we ate it out of the bowl YUMMY!!!!

MMMMMMMM and fresh churned butter YUMMMMMMMMMY sure can't buy butter like that in no store!!!!!

 

[StaceyA]

Just wanted to add a picture of Biscuits and Gravy from the Grand Floridian Cafe, this is called the Southern Style Breakfast:

 

[Bumbles]

I was sad to see Pop doesn't have biscuits and gravy on its breakfast menu. I know the All Stars have it, but not Pop

 

[webray]

Biscuits and gravy done right are excellent, although what is right is very subjective. There is the basic flour gravy..very little meat seasoning, very bland. Then there is the wonderful, spicy sausage gravy, again in a white gravy but wonderfully flavorful (this is what our family prefers). You put either of these over some excellent, fresh from the oven biscuits and you definately have a delicacy.

 

[ladysoleil]

I *love* biscuits and gravy, despite the fact that I live in the Northeast where B&G pretty much doesn't exist.

I get my fix whenever I'm down south, but didn't see any at WDW. I don't know if it would have been as good, anyway. My friend makes the best I've ever had, but I don't often get down to Georgia to get the fix.

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

Bein from Barely Indiana, Nearly Kentucky I agree no crisco for the gravy and it has to be made in iron skillet!!!!!!!

Don't know what that stuff is at Cracker Barrel but it not good sausage gravy YUCK same with the fast food chains and all that canned gravy.

BTW the sausage gravy is best if ya make it the night before and let the flavor of the sausage go thru the gravy don't do that to often tho.

NO canned biscuits either !!!!!!!!!!! YUCK and I get FREE canned biscuits at my house by the case kids bake them every now and then but I NEVER EVER use them give most away.

I've seen the poor folks use their drippings or crisco and flour and water YUCK gotta have MILK!!!!!. Prefer my gravy on the thick side as well no soggy biscuits for me EWWWWWW

Better clarify that the gravy not a brown gravy like served with beef it white or light brown prefer mine light brown. It's entirely different from brown gravy served with beef.

The gravy also good with fried chicken and pork chops YUMMY!!!!!!! Maybe a fresh homemade biscuit on the side with some mashed taters the taters YUMMY with the gravy mixed in.

And when I was just a little sprout had a aunt that lived on a farm she had cows and we got milk and cream from her that was the best milk for gravy.

Momma didn't know no better at the time she used to beat that creme up from the milk sweeten it with sugar and add cinnamon and we ate it out of the bowl YUMMY!!!!

MMMMMMMM and fresh churned butter YUMMMMMMMMMY sure can't buy butter like that in no store!!!!!

Hey dyna!! Splash Mountain called...Uncle Remus needs his personality back!!!

 

[StaceyA]

Hey dyna!! Splash Mountain called...Uncle Remus needs his personality back!!!

LMAO you are so funny

 

[tnmommy]

Ok, Crisco in gravy? I've seen it used in biscuits, but not gravy...My grandmother DOES save her drippings from bacon/sausage for a time when she may want gravy, but not enough breakfast meat to make enough grease to make the gravy.

She makes bacon gravy, I guess more like the 'sawmill' gravy at Cracker Barrell, it's not runny, but not really thick, and no chunks of meat in it, with more of a brown coloring...

I make sausage gravy...I cook about 1/2 roll of WAMPLER'S (Jimmy Dean can also be a good substitute, as is Tennessee Pride brand...) sausage (important!! I went to CA one time and bought the 'pork sausage' they had at our SAFEWAY to make gravy with...it was NASTY!!!) as patties, take them out of the pan, and then crumble and cook the rest. Leaving the crumbled sausage in the pan, I add 1-2 tbsp of flour, add salt and black pepper to the roux, add just a small shake of ground cayenne pepper to it, and let it cook on medium until it is well blended and 'looks right'...(I know that's not much help if you've never made it...) Then I add about 2 c. milk, let it come to a boil, and viola...Sometimes you have to adjust the amount of flour or milk, it may get too thick or too thin, but it's easy to fix, usually...

I like the frozen Pilsbury biscuits...they're a close substitute to the 'real thing...'

 

[bavaria]

Ah, but do go to a grocery store in the south and check out packaged grits! I remember standing in a Food Lion in Virginia finally learning what grits were, and mildly fascinated with the range of flavours.

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

mmmm...yummy...now i am having a craving....must get husband to go over to the cracker barrel........mmmmmmm