Sausage Gravy Add-Ins?

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (Foodbme)

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 05:01:36 GMT

Grilled Onioins sounds good. I'll pass on the peppers thankyou!

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (gcgrytdal)

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 01:52:57 GMT

We're about as far North and West as you can get, in Spokane, WA and there is a restaurant here: Frank's Diner, that serves homemade country sausage gravy with Biscuits. They ask if you want grilled onions and green peppers with your gravy. Hot sauce (Tabasco) is brought to the table. I've got to tell you, it's goooood stuff!

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (rebeltruce)

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:42:56 GMT

fishtaco

rebeltruce

baileysoriginal

The real SOS? I've personally never had it - although I came from an Army family the closest we ever came to it was a ground beef gravy on toast - which wasn't bad but it wasn't the famous Creamed Chipped Beef. My Mother has an Army cookbook from the forties that has the SOS recipe that feeds 100 - along with lots of others - I'm going to borrow it the next time I visit.

UH...we've had this discussion here on Roadfood before....the REAL SOS is made with ground beef!!!!!!!

That chipped beef stuff is good but it is not SOS.....LOL

Sausage, Hamburger, white or red, Chipped Beef all fall under the term SOS. But "real" SOS is Chipped Beef.
USN, Ret 1973-1993

Oh boy..here we go again....us Marines say the "real" SOS is ground beef!!!

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (fishtaco)

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:38:30 GMT

rebeltruce

baileysoriginal

The real SOS? I've personally never had it - although I came from an Army family the closest we ever came to it was a ground beef gravy on toast - which wasn't bad but it wasn't the famous Creamed Chipped Beef. My Mother has an Army cookbook from the forties that has the SOS recipe that feeds 100 - along with lots of others - I'm going to borrow it the next time I visit.

UH...we've had this discussion here on Roadfood before....the REAL SOS is made with ground beef!!!!!!!

That chipped beef stuff is good but it is not SOS.....LOL

Sausage, Hamburger, white or red, Chipped Beef all fall under the term SOS. But "real" SOS is Chipped Beef.
USN, Ret 1973-1993

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (kevincad)

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:49:35 GMT

Ort. Carlton.

Dearfolk,
I've actually seen livermush gravy with biscuits on a menu in North Carolina. Didn't try it, though... they had "done run out" for the day. "We run out ever' day," the waitress told me.
Wholeheartedly, Ort.

Livermush is alot like scrapple, it's good stuff for breakfast. There is a distinct version in the low country that uses rice instead of cornmeal, because that's what they had!

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (rebeltruce)

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:39:35 GMT

baileysoriginal

The real SOS? I've personally never had it - although I came from an Army family the closest we ever came to it was a ground beef gravy on toast - which wasn't bad but it wasn't the famous Creamed Chipped Beef. My Mother has an Army cookbook from the forties that has the SOS recipe that feeds 100 - along with lots of others - I'm going to borrow it the next time I visit.

UH...we've had this discussion here on Roadfood before....the REAL SOS is made with ground beef!!!!!!!

That chipped beef stuff is good but it is not SOS.....LOL

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (Ort. Carlton.)

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:38:35 GMT

Dearfolk,
I've actually seen livermush gravy with biscuits on a menu in North Carolina. Didn't try it, though... they had "done run out" for the day. "We run out ever' day," the waitress told me.
Wholeheartedly, Ort.

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (Ort. Carlton.)

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:36:17 GMT

No wonder! Glaaargh!!!!!

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (baileysoriginal)

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:44:16 GMT

The real SOS? I've personally never had it - although I came from an Army family the closest we ever came to it was a ground beef gravy on toast - which wasn't bad but it wasn't the famous Creamed Chipped Beef. My Mother has an Army cookbook from the forties that has the SOS recipe that feeds 100 - along with lots of others - I'm going to borrow it the next time I visit.

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (Michael Hoffman)

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:53:31 GMT

fishtaco

While we're at it. NO additions, REPEAT NO additions to real SOS. Chipped Beef.

Of course not!

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (fishtaco)

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:19:30 GMT

While we're at it. NO additions, REPEAT NO additions to real SOS. Chipped Beef.

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (edwmax)

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:26:14 GMT

What ??? ... butter & salt is not good enough ....

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (DougS)

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:12:32 GMT

Well yah'all have made my mind up as to what I am having for breakfast but there will be no peppers or onions in my gravy. I do like fresh cracked pepper and the addition of poultry seasoning, sounds interesting.
My own personal tastes leaned towards Bacon gravy rather than Sausage gravy, that was when good bacon was available. Today's bacon is pumped full of water so sausage gravy is now the better choice. Again! only if you can get good seasoned sausage.
I like to build a biscuit & gravy plate with, fresh buttered(no margarine) biscuit, over easy/ fried eggs, and gravy as a topping.
I can hear my belt stretching already. Better substitute poached eggs.

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (baileysoriginal)

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:42:10 GMT

I have to agree - all of the add ins sound like they may be good but biscuits and sausage gravy to me can stand on their own...

A light fluffy buttermilk biscuit split and covered with a gravy made with a good quality sausage, flour and whole milk - simmered to just the right consistency - not too thick or too runny - and a light sprinkling of pepper.

I can almost see this happening this weekend - I can do a passable sausage gravy but the buttermilk biscuits are going to have to come out of a frozen Pillsbury bag - no mess and they're far better than any biscuit I could make.

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (fishtaco)

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:17:45 GMT

A couple Sunny Side Up Eggs on top.

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (Greymo)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:29:13 GMT

The grandchildren and I had breakfast at Bob Evans thie morning and it was really great. The sausage gravy and biscults eere really good. They must have someone new in the kitchen as the last time I had biscuits there, they were quite dreadful. Today, they were as good as the ones that I remember from years ago! Also, the eggs were perfectly poached.

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (ALLGOOD)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:06:28 GMT

Pepper... white pepper to be exact. That's all it needs.
I once saw someone add diced hard-boiled eggs to it....that was just wrong on so many levels.....

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (the grillman)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:32:23 GMT

good bulk sausage, flour, milk, and salt and pepper is all you need. The more pepper, usually the better. I often use some Tabasco or Crystal sauce at the table.

now, the poultry seasoning, that sounds somewhat interesting, especially if you are making it for supper over CFS.

onion or green pepper, I don't get it. I've also heard to people adding diced tomatoes or cheese. Neither would be to my taste.

There's a place here in St Charles that has the best gravy; the biscuits could be better, but oh, their homemade gravy is outstanding. I could eat it by the bowlful, and gain 20 pounds instantly. Chunks of sausage, and sometimes some added bacon crumbles, added to rich flavorful gravy that is lumpy enough that you know it's homemade, none of that powdered stuff. Redneck nirvana.

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (ScreamingChicken)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:35:07 GMT

SpicyCheese

In Stockton, Illinois, which is just about 4 miles from Wisconsin, there is a cafe that puts green pepper and onion in their sausage gravy.

I should've asked this yesterday, but at what point are the pepper and onion added?

And how's the rest of the food there?

Brad

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (kevincad)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:54:16 GMT

tcrouzer

Just reading the title of this thread on the RF homepage got my hackles up! LOL!

Why would anyone spoil a perfectly simple dish like biscuits and sausage gravy by adding in anything else? As much as I love melted cheese on anything, I'd fear disturbing my grandmother in her grave if I added cheese to biscuits and gravy. A pinch of extra sage or poultry seasoning is allowed only -- ONLY -- if the sausage is not seasoned enough to begin with.

Just the opinion of one member raised from the high chair up on my grandparents' biscuits and gravy.

I agree!

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (kevincad)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:51:43 GMT

Large Man

You don't need to add things if it's perfect in the first place. Ya'll must not have good sausage gravy to begin with!

Exactly!!!!!

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (Michael Hoffman)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:51:20 GMT

All the sausage gravy and biscuit talk -- I had to go out this morning to get some.

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (kland01s)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:44:32 GMT

quote i can see not wanting the onions and peppers in your sausage gravy---but---onions--offensive!!!??? those two words just dont fit together in my brain!

I love onions, especially in the onion soups I make but for some reason onions made in restaurants (except a good onion ring) have been awful.

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (SeamusD)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:31:46 GMT

I also like extra pepper in mine, and hot sauce only once it hits the plate, never mixed in ahead of time. Once in a while if I make it at home I'll cook some onion with the sausage if I have it in the fridge. Diced jalapeno on it sounds tempting also, I think I'd rather have that than green pepper with it, given a choice.

A couple years ago I went to a diner that had just opened up down the street from me, and the breakfast special was biscuits and gravy. They brought me a plate with a couple small, obviously previously cooked and refrigerated biscuits that they didn't bother to even reheat, with canned chicken gravy with some sausage in it, poured over top of it. I managed one bite into the cold biscuit and overly salty thin gravy. Horrifying. I never went back, and they didn't stay in business very long.

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (tiki)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:37:47 GMT

i can see not wanting the onions and peppers in your sausage gravy---but---onions--offensive!!!??? those two words just dont fit together in my brain!

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (kland01s)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:29:49 GMT

More sausage, more gravy and lots of black pepper for me. Onions or peppers would make me send it back, the smell alone is offensive to me.

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (tcrouzer)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:10:59 GMT

Just reading the title of this thread on the RF homepage got my hackles up! LOL!

Why would anyone spoil a perfectly simple dish like biscuits and sausage gravy by adding in anything else? As much as I love melted cheese on anything, I'd fear disturbing my grandmother in her grave if I added cheese to biscuits and gravy. A pinch of extra sage or poultry seasoning is allowed only -- ONLY -- if the sausage is not seasoned enough to begin with.

Just the opinion of one member raised from the high chair up on my grandparents' biscuits and gravy.

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (UncleVic)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:45:58 GMT

Only thing I'll add to my sausage gravy is Poultry Seasoning while thickening it.

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (pogophiles)

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:22:39 GMT

SpicyCheese

Do any of the southerners and purists reading this find their hackles up and feel the urge to blast these add-ins as unholy abominations?

This...

Re:Sausage Gravy Add-Ins? (Greymo)

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:01:03 GMT

I would never think of adding anything when making sausage gravy except for more sausage!