biscuit and gravy
Oct. 7th, 2011 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynI live in California. It's just next to impossible to get anything with gravy on it without going to a chain restaurant.
So today when I was craving biscuits and gravy, I came home and made some. You can't get it in any restaurant. Even the "southern" ones which have biscuits do not sell the gravy.
However, it is a gigantic pain to make a batch of biscuits because they like being baked in a really hot oven. Getting the oven to 450 takes longer than I'm willing to wait, plus then the biscuits need to cook. And they're not anywhere nearly as good leftover and reheated the next day. So I needed a way to make just enough biscuits for me.
I used butter, yogurt, salt, pepper, baking soda, baking powder, flour... and I mixed up a thinner than usual biscuit batter. This I spread on a pre-heated pancake griddle (iron) and covered with a domed pot lid. It required some attention to make sure I flipped it before it burned, but there was enough butter in the dough to keep it from sticking and to crisp it up.
The sausage gravy is the standard kind. Cook sausage, add flour, salt, pepper, spices to the grease to make an in-pan roux. Add milk and water and stir vigorously until lumps are dissolved and gravy is proper consistency. Then ladle over biscuit.
I will definitely be doing this again.
So today when I was craving biscuits and gravy, I came home and made some. You can't get it in any restaurant. Even the "southern" ones which have biscuits do not sell the gravy.
However, it is a gigantic pain to make a batch of biscuits because they like being baked in a really hot oven. Getting the oven to 450 takes longer than I'm willing to wait, plus then the biscuits need to cook. And they're not anywhere nearly as good leftover and reheated the next day. So I needed a way to make just enough biscuits for me.
I used butter, yogurt, salt, pepper, baking soda, baking powder, flour... and I mixed up a thinner than usual biscuit batter. This I spread on a pre-heated pancake griddle (iron) and covered with a domed pot lid. It required some attention to make sure I flipped it before it burned, but there was enough butter in the dough to keep it from sticking and to crisp it up.
The sausage gravy is the standard kind. Cook sausage, add flour, salt, pepper, spices to the grease to make an in-pan roux. Add milk and water and stir vigorously until lumps are dissolved and gravy is proper consistency. Then ladle over biscuit.
I will definitely be doing this again.
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Date: 2011-10-07 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-07 09:32 pm (UTC)It would have been better with hashbrowns on the side, but I was out of iron skillets. ;-)
I also went out for a burrito at lunch. I didn't eat it all, but I did finish my enormous drink. I had a pineapple-strawberry agua fresca... the large size is about a quart. Next time I'll just take the whole burrito home and just have chips with my drink. (No free chips if you don't buy a food.)
I think today is okay.
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Date: 2011-10-08 02:18 am (UTC)I'm so glad today was okay. I owe you an email!
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Date: 2011-10-08 04:42 pm (UTC)No worries on the email... though I agree you should actually post something sometime.
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Date: 2011-10-08 02:25 am (UTC)Yay! :-)
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Date: 2011-10-08 04:41 pm (UTC)And yes, I do worry about you being happy. How can I come around and subtract happiness from you if you don't have any?
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Date: 2011-10-09 04:43 am (UTC)