Mullet I remember Skeeters Big biscuits! Great place! Is it still there? I hope so! The way I make my biscuits and gravy, I usually just use toast as it is quicker, and I make lousy biscuits, but I make fantastic gravy for it! At least I think so, and the guys at the stations I worked at liked it! I use pork sausage, or if I don't have any, I just use ground pork, or lean hamburger, and at salt and pepper, and sage, and little cayenne pepper, and Cajun seasoning, and then mix it all together well. Then I dice up a sweet onion, and some garlic cloves, and saute' them, till they are starting to just about glaze, and then dump in the sausage, or homemade sausage, and stir it all around in the onions and diced garlic, and then when the sausage is cooked, I pour in a cup or more of half and half, depending on how much I am cooking, and stir it all together, and then I take a coffee cup, and put in about a table spoon of flour, or corn starch, and pour in half and half, and stir it up, and when the half and half, and sausage is bubbling, I pour in the cup of flour and cream mixture and it thickens up the gravy, and I sprinkle some granulated garlic powder, and some Cajun seasoning in, to taste, and depending on who I am making it for, sometimes I will put some crushed pepper flakes in also. I then pour it over a couple of fried eggs, sitting on toast, in a large plate with somewhat of a raised edge, so the gravy doesn't run off, but the flour and cream usually thickens it up enough that it doesn't run much, you can regulate the thickness of the gravy, by putting in less flour and milk, cream, water, whatever you choose to use. You can season it with salt and pepper to taste. Since this dish is not the healthiest, I try to cook with coconut oil when I can, as it is the hands down healthiest cooking oil there is. Not Palm oil, it is another oil all together and is to be avoided at all costs! It comes from the Betel palm nut, which is a known carcinogen! The Betel palm is better known here as the Aricca palm. Anyway use whatever oil you like. I stay away from soy, corn, and Canola oil, which actually comes from the Rape seed, but Canola sounds better. Anyway, my reason for avoiding those oils, is that 96 per cent of all soybeans grown in the US is genetically modified! No matter what bull Monsanto says, it is not healthy, all independent testing has proved it unsafe time and again. Anyway, the GMO soy is called roundup ready, meaning it can be sprayed with roundup and survive. But the round up kills the soil, and is absorbed into the plant, and soybean. Approximately the same percentage of corn, and canola (rape seed) is also GMO product also. But anywho whatever you choose, that is my recipe for sausage and gravy. The only home made English breakfast I had was in Hindon, out side of London, and it was stewed tomatoes, beans (pork n beans style) and fried eggs. It was very good!
I wish I could afford to go back. If the American biscuit is a bit confusing, just use toast, it is what I use most of the time any way. We had it in the Army, but called it SOS. ( #hit on a shingle! )
Still it was one of the more tasty treats the slopped on your plate. There is also a "Red Eye" gravy over here, and it is basically made from the pan scrapings from cooking slabs of ham. Enjoy!
Wayne
