Biscuits and Sausage Gravy

This is honestly one of my favorite things in the world to cook. It is also one of the easiest things I cook. It takes about 25-30 minutes from start to finish. Honestly, the hardest part about this post is going to be coming up with the actual recipe, because I have'nt used one for this particular dish since I was about 18.

A FEW POINTERS ABOUT THIS POST:

1. I was cooking for 5 adults and 4 children in these pictures. The recipe I'm giving you is scaled way back.
2. Use cheap sausage. I used the cheapest sausage they had at the store. Not only is it easy on the wallet, but the cheaper the sausage, the higher the fat content. The more fat content, the more grease. You need the grease to add the overall flavor to your flour mixture.
3. Taste it before you serve it! there is nothing worse for me than watching people take a bite of something that I've cooked and then seeing them grab the salt and pepper.

The Recipe

Ingredients:
1 tube of pork sausage
1/4 cup flour (or less depending on amount of grease)
1/4 cup cold water
2-3 cups whole milk
1 tbsp salt
pepper to taste

Directions:

In large skillet over medium heat, brown sausage until crumbled. remove sausage with slotted spoon, draining meat as best you can. Put meat in a separate bowl and set aside.Turn up heat to med-high. Add the flour to the grease. using a spatula, mix up the flour in the grease, making sure to scrape up any particles from the bottom of the pan. Once the flour mixture gets pasty and starts turning light brown, turn down the heat to medium, and add the water to the pan. Mix around the flour, making sure to crush any clumps that you see. As the water heats up, the flour will expand, having a paste like texture. Add your milk. while you are waiting for the flour to expand again, crush and mix any clumps that you see. Once it begins to thicken again, add your sausage back to the pan. mix up well. Turn off the heat and cover the pan for about 3-4 minutes. give it a good stir. If it is too thick, turn on the heat to medium and add more milk. (in small portions.)

OK. So here we go. How I made the biscuits and gravy.
I started off with my cheap tubes of sausage. I threw them in my pan.

So then I just cooked the sausage down, making sure to break it up in little pieces with my spatula.

Once it was completely cooked, I took my slotted spoon and removed the sausage, letting it drain as much as I could. I put the sausage in another bowl and set it aside.
Next, I turned up the heat, and I put my biscuits in the oven. (most people prefer the canned biscuits, but I think frozen are way better. Not to say that you cant make your own biscuits, I just didn't do all that this time.)
Alright, now that the fat was getting hotter, I added the flour and mixed it around in the pan.
After that started to turn light brown, I added the water to the pan.
And in about 2 minutes, the flour expanded into this paste like consistency.
Now it was time to add the milk.
Once the milk began to heat up, the flour was expanding again, so I added the sausage back into the gravy.
And just then the timer went off for the biscuits.
Then I just kept stirring, until it was almost to the thickness I wanted, then I turned off the heat.
Oh man. it smelled so good. So now would be the time to taste it. Make sure there is enough salt, and a little kick from the pepper.
And there you have it. grab some warm biscuits, and cover them in the gravy like so. Just try not to drool too much as you make your plate. LOL