For Sunday brunch I decided to whip up something better than Pop Tarts.

I had biscuits & gravy with scrambled eggs in the VA cantina this morn.

Keep eating stuff like that, you’re 2/3 of my income.

I ate shrimp and grits every morning over the weekend. It's shrimpin' season here and I had guests in town and a couple of gallons of shrimp I didn't freeze leftover from last week.

Funny how quick the yankees and midwesterners start lovin' grits when they try my slow cooked creamy grits with shrimp and redeye gravy.

It's an art form.

We have biscuits and gravy pretty much three or four times a week in this household when the weather gets cooler ... along with buscuits and butter and honey from my bees. Usually sausage gravy but sometimes venison gravy or SOS gravy or whatever we have to slather our biscuits with.

Muscadine jelly. We had a huge crop of wild muscadines this year. We put-up nearly 40 pints of jelly.

Love that stuff. I was first introduced to it in a little country cafeteria in Davie, Florida, back in the late 1980s. I was hooked. I'd love to go back there again. They served a great Sunday breakfast. Some friends and I used to eat there after church every Sunday.

Is that healthier than a Pop tart?

Looks good BTW

I’m still trying to figure out why is it that I can eat that once or twice a month from the Hardee’s or Holiday Inn and my total cholesterol is in the 150s and high dens in the mid 50s

Looks alot like SOS from the mess hall!

Good stuff.

g

Toss on top of that some grits and two over-easy fried eggs.

Yes

It has protein

Love the stuff and sausage with it. Purnell's hot is pretty good.

I've been on an egg kick for about a week. I had two eggs over medium this morning, on white bread with a smear of Heinz Mayonnaise (better than Duke's - fight me).

Makes a kinda runny egg sammich. Delicious. No pics, cause it was just a couple of eggs on loaf bread.

Scrumptious!!!!!!!😜

Whatever you’re doing, keep doing it.

A lot of hypercholesterolemia is genetic predisposition. You might have drawn the lucky card.

Dammit!

Now you made me want that for supper!

Got a good bit of buttermilk gravy left from couple days ago. May have to make some biscuits to go with it tonight.

No, I'm not. Here's the list of medications I've taken in the last 24 months:

Aspirin.

Good stuff. I need to whip up a batch of Alton Brown biscuits and sausage gravy.

It's got everything bad for you all wrapped up on one plate, but dayummm it's good. Have it no more than a few times a year so you can savor it; you'll be just fine.

I slide two sunny-ups onto mine. A tidal wave of warm yolky goodness makes it more better deliciouser. Do not forget the hot sauce.

You tell me.

Biscuits: Flour, baking powder, salt, butter, milk, egg

Gravy: Milk, sausage, bacon, pepper

Okay, but odds are you’ll come my way eventually.

No, but you can eat it without a crayons and coloring book, kiddo.

😝🦫

Hey Beaver, ya know what?

Nice!

But, say, just between us, you know it's Monday, right?

Knock, knock, mofo...

Laffin

🦫

PS

What?

😐

Now I feel bad.

Sending you a box of Pop Tarts in whatever flavor you want.

🦫

Monday is my Sunday.

I was wondering how long it would take someone to catch it, though.

Lol

My mom is almost 94 years old. She has made biscuits and sausage gravy for the opening breakfast of Ks pheasant season for at least the past 20 years, and will do so this Saturday.
It’s awesome with big chunks of sausage and very flaky biscuits.
I eat it once a year.

Holy crap that’s funny

That's great. Good for her.

If I wasn't so lazy & poor at typing,

My handle would have been Biscuits N' gravy.


I try, I try so hard not to eat it every week or every couple. But the doggone stuff if freakin orgasmic.

^^^ Food of the Gods

Anyone putting an egg in biscuit dough oughta be shot. Two weeks all over the west last month, had biscuits and gravy in a lot of places, All but one had egg in the biscuits. Cakey schit...

Weirdest BNG was in Kalispell. Place was great, so I got it there. They bring me a massive plate of it, which would have been pretty decent, except the frigging paprika, cayenne and parsley all over the top. WTF? WGAS what it looks like, its BNG. Good biscuits covered well in proper sausage gravy is all that is needed to please. Hold the garnish, will ya? Sheesh.

Biscuits and Gravy at Hardee's whenever I get South of the Mason-Dixon Line. Only two times a year but worth it. Makes a great pit stop on road trips.

That looked good to me. I would eat it.
I was raised on food like that.

I just had dinner. Fried chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy and biscuits. Water to drink.

I'm good tell the AM.

There was a vegan restaurant down the road that did tofu sausage and soy-milk gravy over gluten free cauliflower biscuits as their specialty breakfast fare.

They went out of business.

Lmao

Haha!

Haha^

Yeah, I almost ended up chewing my B&G a second time when I read that.

Maple Leaf pork sausage here in Canada is really very fatty. I mix it half and half with lean ground moose. Brown it in cast iron frying pan—then brown some flour in the grease and then pour in a guard of milk. Stir slowly until thick and then ladle over canned biscuits. Everyone I know slathers it in Franks RedHot sauce.
30 years ago nobody local had ever heard of biscuits and gravy— now I got the whole damn Reserve hooked on it.

One local moose hunter claimed his wife made such good biscuits he could eat 2 cans worth!

I'm good with paprika and cayenne but hold the parsley.

I'd never tried 'em. Back about '98 I dated a gal who grew up here. I was still semi new to the area. She introduced me to 'em. There was a little restaurant nearby that transitioned from breakfast to lunch around 11:00. If we hit it just right we could split a burger and a side of biscuits and gravy, then put the extra gravy over the fries. Cholesterol bomb but damn it was good. Another place in town had 'em but they were ... city-fied.

Got one just two miles from the house. I'm going tomorrow. All this talk of it has made the idea irresistible.

That's easy: heredity.

A week night supper. So, what do you think a weekend breakfast looks like. Photobucket stole that pic.

Hardee’s B&G is better than home made?

It's actually the first time I've tried it. No buttermilk on hand, and needed to stretch the regular milk because gravy. Didn't turn out too bad, not cakey really. Next time I'll make sure I have buttermilk and stick to basics, but this was a spur of the moment thing and all in all I was happy with the results. My wife scarfed it up pronto as well, and she's a southern Missouri girl.

As an aside, all the health concerns crack me up. It ain't like we're eating this every day. Besides, lack of exercise and drinking lots of carbonated sugar water probably contributes more to ill health than good 'ol country cooking ever did. Then there's the stuff from the magic food factory with lists of preservatives and chemicals a mile long. My great-grandad ate bacon or sausage and eggs every day for breakfast, wouldn't touch a vegetable other than corn or green beans, smoked a pipe from age 12, and lived to 95.

I pretty much subscribe to the 19th century farm diet; if you couldn't process it on an 19th century farm, don't eat it.

The drop-and-give-me-twenty diet is also effective at combatting many ailments.

Is use to be decent quick b&g while traveling but haven't had fast food in years.

It beat the hell out of McDonald's b&g 🤢

Biscuits and gravy sure is a mess to get out of your jacket pocket while sitting in a deer stand.

That's my favorite way to fix ducks.

Wife and I fixed these a few weekends ago. Homemade buttermilk biscuits, fresh eggs from my friends farm, homemade sausage we killed back in February and sausage gravy. Good stuff.

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perfectly spoken by a societal leech Kcock sucker.

I brown Jimmy Dean's sausage and add flour and milk to make the gravy. It's very good over biscuits. A friend told me corn meal is better than flour.
Has anyone tried this? I hate to waste a lb of sausage.

Had it two weeks ago, in elk camp. Might make it in the duck blind every few years. There's never enough black pepper.

OP, I am 48, weigh 175lb at 5’10”, and have been eating bacon and eggs with hashbrowns and biscuits and gravy for breakfast most days since I left home a few decades ago. Started out as a laborer, went into ironworkers, then carpentry. Active life. I take no meds, cholesterol and BP low side of normal. Pulse rate in the 50’s. Artery scan a year ago showed no obstruction anywhere. Good food won’t kill ya. Bad food has a hell of a time doing it, genes hurt you worse than anything. Men in my family live to be 90, spend the last fifty years of that with back trouble. I am doing exactly that. Doin’ better than a bunch of them, because I work out. Grandpa died last year at 90, healthy as a horse, no meds, but his back literally falling apart. So I get a good idea what my road out will look like.

Said all that to say this. Your genes will map the road ahead, more than your supper. Good luck, and don’t run out of buttermilk! That puts you in a bad place...😂

I just can’t imagine making gravy with corn meal.
That’s probably against the law somewhere in the Deep South. 😜

^^

Corn meal is much better but harder to get right or has been for me.

I remember as a kid some people used corn meal. I've had it but been too long to remember. I would rather try meal than use Jimmy Dean, not my favorite.

Legend has it corn meal was where the terms "mill gravy" "grist gravy" and "sawmill gravy" was coined but not enough old phuggers left to confirm it. When flour got scarce in the south they turned to corn i suppose

Dat's what I'm talkin' 'bout.

Chuck Norris approves this message.



Chuck did say he would kick my ass if I ever run out of buttermilk again.

Never tried it. I have used masa (corn flour) to thicken some types of chili and that works good, has a nice flavor.

I prefer bacon gravy over sausage gravy personally…but both are wonderful.

Bella's in Wells, Nv. [the cafe not the brothel] has the world's best breakfast. A giant biscuit w/ the best chicken fried steak, 2 poached eggs and amazing gravy. I feasted there yesterday and am a better person for having done so.


mike r

Bacon grease gravy with sausage added..

This.

Greg

Because I used to live there...they claim the best breakfast, I disagree. But given there isn't any other options for 50 miles in either direction I guess they can tout it.
Depending on who's cooking for the girls on the other side of the tracks, you might get a better meal and maybe cheaper....

My wife makes amazing B&G. Unfortunately for me, she doesn't care for the dish, so I don't get it as often as I'd like.

I use both. 2 parts sausage, 1 part bacon. Everything is better with bacon.

Nothing like 2 or 3 slices of fried pon haus to round out a plate of biscuits and gravy.

We have it every now and then, but for the kid and I, Biscuits and Gravy with elk sausage has been our go to elk hunt Thanksgiving evening meal (elk season opens following morning) for years. Some biscuits fired up in the cheapie coleman oven, sausage over the fire, and a feast.

That’s funny.

GFY, sweetheart.

I’ll get you someday, too.

Biscuits and Gravy is only the side dish of a good Southern Breakfast... and the gravy needs to be made with shredded chicken neck meat and chopped giblet, not sausage or bacon:



and made with fresh cracked pepper, cayenne pepper, and salt... started from the drippings from the night before or the mornings bacon grease. 4 biscuits, 6 eggs (Sunny Side Up), fried potato's and a pan fried steak to to complete. And Sour Dough Toast for sopping up the egg yolk and remainder of the gravy.

Glass of V-8 and a couple cups o coffee makes for a good day's starter.


Phil

That’s no BS! Besides a few statistical outliers, poor choices made in excess will lead to poor outcomes.

With fried quail for breakfast.

U missed it..a broke open biscuit folded over AND buttered on top THEN a over easy egg on top of each of those then you scoop your biscuits gravy stuff over top of that ..... a bunch of meat of some sort ....then dig in into the gray- poping the Yoke which melts down into your biscuit .....you can thank me late. ......Damm bunch of girly eaters around here geesh !

Better than a skinned quail for sure.

Yep. Everything’s better when fried in Bacon grease. 🤠

Safe bet that many who signed onto class-action lawsuits against the latest and greatest magic pill came to the same conclusion.

I like a biscuit as much as anyone, but I haven't made one since I learned hoecake. 1 part oil, 2 parts liquid, 4 flour. Make it with Crisco and half n half . Bake in a cast iron skillet at 425 for 20-25 min. Don't slap your momma. She didn't know.

Just as good with syrup as gravy.

You guys need to pay attention!

My wife comes from a large family of women that cooked the old fashioned way. Just good country & southern style cooking. I bet I have not eaten gravy from a fast food joint like Hardees, Bojangles or Biscuitville in 15 years....just don't taste the same to me anymore. IMO, the key to good gravy is to use fresh sausage and hardwood smoked bacon grease. Commercial sausage from Jimmy Dean or Tennessee Pride is what we use if we don't have our own or the local butcher is out. The gravy is then seasoned to taste with salt, black pepper and cayenne pepper.

One of my favorite things to do is split open a biscuit, butter it up, throw an over easy fried egg on each half, and then top with sausage gravy. I like chicken fried pork tenderloin, chicken fried steak or chicken to go along with it. We don't fix this often but when we fix it early afternoon and is the only meal we eat all day.

Somethin is gonna get you. Lead, Radon, that bus you didn't see. Screw it! Eat what the hell you want and enjoy your life!

Ron

Agreed !
Look at all of the people that passed up the desert cart on the Titantic !!

Damn

I wish the Hardees and Bojangles were’t 21 miles one way.

That just goes to show how many we already got.

No one knows this, but we’re actually in league with the Pork Council, as well as Coke and Pepsi.

Hell, we invented the drive through.

Both my grandmothers, all my aunts and and all but one uncle lived well into their senior years, with several living into their late 90s, rarely if ever saw a doctor, took little if any prescribed medicines, and stayed active up until shortly before they died. Both grandfathers died in their middle age but both were well known for their heavy consumption of liquor, much of it most likely homemade 'shine.

All ate the type of "unhealthy" 'poor folks' foods their whole lives that "Experts" are now warning people to avoid.

The biggest difference that I can see is the food they ate didn't have all the chemical additives and wasn't subjected to the processes food is nowadays.

that made me laugh

Geezz! What a buzz kill! I bet you're a lot of fun at a party!

By the way, I'll take mine with two eggs, over easy, and lots of hot sauce!

Meh….

Onion, potato, sausage egg cheese jalapeño

Wrap up with a tortilla

Hot sauce of your choice.

Wash it down with a shot of booze(of your choice)

Good stuff.

Actually no, it's called sawmill gravy when you use cornmeal instead of flour. Both are quite good when made by a cook that knows how to make gravy.

Alright, TFF. Hell, it might even be true.

Everything in moderation...

including moderation!

Thanks for taking the joke in the way it was meant. Just having a bit of fun. A bunch of other guys are kinda uptight about anyone commenting on their diet.

Chortle

No worries. I can be serious but I never take myself too seriously.

That cracked me up. I was going to ask when you plan on changing your avatar to Dr. Evil.

Better watch it there, mister. Chortling might just be a Campfire man-card revoking offense. John Wayne and Charlton "by God" Heston did not chortle.

Apparently, it was one of Zane Gray’s favorite words! 😁

Guffaw

Other than the back issues, do the old men in your family have any issues with wanton sharting? You may have that to look forward to as well.

Make no mistake, Big Pharma is an easy target. I have a ball playing the Evil Empire part. I’ve been slinging drugs almost 25 years.