I love biscuits and gravy. My 5th year of undergrad I got in the habit of riding to school with my roommate who had class 1-2 hours before I did, and I would go to the student union and get two biscuits slathered in gravy and, if I felt hungry, a hash brown with either 2% or chocolate milk. It was a filling breakfast that held me pretty well for about six or seven hours before getting like a footlong for lunch/dinner. It was my food monday-friday. Needless to say, I took the loss of biscuits and gravy very hard.

So I tried the recipe on the back of The Cravings Place waffle and pancake mix for biscuits and tweaked this recipe I found for country gravy.

My initial reactions:

  • The biscuits were very chewy. I realize flaky is going to be nearly impossible to manage, but that just didn't work.
  • The gravy browned up before it had thickened, which made it very difficult to keep stirred and even.

    Stuff to do differently next time:
  • Look for a new biscuits recipe. I've heard good things about the Whole Food cream biscuits (as mentioned in the recipe) so I'm going to have to hunt down my closest Whole Foods and give them a try. If not, I just need to find another biscuits recipe to give it a shot. Using the pancake and waffle mix did not get the job done.
  • Not use lean meat. I'd bought lean Jimmy Dean sausage for a pizza a couple of weeks ago, and I was still working off of that. The drippings were practically non-existent and so it made it hard to gauge when the gravy started to thicken it up; it obviously also detracted from flavor.
  • Take out some of the sausage. I made a half batch of the gravy, used half a package of sausage and wow! That was a lot of sausage. Next time I leave less sausage in. Wow.