Comfort Foods!

Well, I made homemade naan and curry a couple weeks ago. Here are the results and recipe information:
http://shmai.blogspot.com/2008/02/indian-curry-and-naan.html

I also made sausage gravy and biscuits for the bf.. He says it was phenomenal! Yay! And I think it was great too, especially because it was a recipe published by Bob Evan's, the brand/company that sells the sausage!

Anyway, here is the recipe. I'll upload the picture a little later and update..hopefully.

Sausage Gravy:

1 lb Bob Evan's Original Sausage
2 cups of milk
1 tbsp of butter (my addition)
1/4 cup of all-purpose flour
salt and pepper to taste
a lotta love!

Brown sausage in a skillet or sauce pan on medium-medium high heat. Make sure to break the sausages into the size that you desire (I made it small and crumbly like ground meat). Then add 1/4 cup of flour and let it dissolve. Don't be worried if there isn't enough grease! Then add 2 cups of milk and stir. Keep stirring and it should start to bubble! Then add in the 1 tbsp of butter, which I think you can omit but I added it for shits and giggles. Add salt and pepper to taste. Keep stirring and it should thicken. Note that the longer you cook it, the thicker it will get so turn off the stove when it gets to your desired consistency. Bake up some buttermilk biscuits from good ol Pillsbury, cut them open and then smother them with the sausage gravy.

Serve with some scrambled eggs on the side and you're done! :)

And, this is definitely not a low fat dish. I will try a vegetarian version this weekend since I want some sausage gravy and biscuits now! The plan is to use vegetarian "sausage", skim milk or light soy milk (or a combo of the two) as well as salt and pepper. For the biscuits, I will use the Bisquick heart healthy mix to make the heart healthy biscuits. YUM!


update: I made the vegetarian version. The sausage gravy is the same except the spices from the sausage aren't as bold so I would probably add more sage to it next time. I used fat free milk instead of whole milk and the biscuits were tasty as usual, but if you were secretly trying to make the dish healthier, I would just tweak the gravy and not the biscuits so that it still looks untainted! :)