I think I'd been craving biscuits n gravy since BigB's post. I usually despise sausage, mostly because they are loaded with little gritty pieces of fat. With the faux sausages I don't have to worry about that. I think I used the same "sausage" as BigB, it was Gimme Lean vegan sausage. First order of business was making the biscuits. Measure out a cup of buttermilk, (if you don't have any just add a ts or two of lemon juice or vinegar to regular milk, stir it up and let it sit), put that buttermilk in the freezer! The colder the ingredients the better! Then 2 cups of flour, 4 ts baking powder, a little under a 1/2 ts of baking soda, and then about a half stick of butter (sometimes I use coconut oil in place of butter, but the melting point lower so it isn't a great sub in for something like this). Mix the dry ingredients, and then work the butter in with your hands. After that pull the milk from the freezer and either slowly work it in with the dry ingredients or I like to do the well method like when making pasta. Fold the dough over a couple times and cut your biscuits. They at least double in height when cooking. I cooked them at 450 for about 22 min, but my oven seems to always need longer than most. I also pulled them with about 2 min left and buttered the tops.
While the biscuits were baking, I made the gravy. I used the whole tube of Gimme Lean. I brown and break up the "meat", then fill the pan I'm cooking in a little over halfway with milk when the time comes, a quarter cup of flour or so, salt, fresh ground black pepper, and smoked red habanero powder from Knepper's Peppers. Oh also a pinch of ground sage and thyme. Its something my great grandmother always did when cooking with breakfast sausage, so it's become something I do too now. Bring it to a boil and then let it simmer. It will thicken more as it cools.
I ate mine with a fried egg between the biscuits and the gravy. something about the gooey yolk and the gravy. omnomnomnom.
my sous chef pushing out the dough for me.
I used a mason jar lid as a cutter...
before the boil
finished biscuits
gravy taken off the heat, waiting to cool a little
nomnomnomnom
I've already got plans for a biscuits n gravy spin off... but ya'll will have to wait till I make it to find out what it is!
hehehe just kidding! Everything looks tasty BigB!
