Sausage Gravy & Biscuits

Day 173

Laura's idea. Sounded good and we already had everything to make the gravy and the biscuits. We did need to go out for potatoes and a side veggie though.

Sausage Gravy & Biscuits with Potatoes & Beans

Sausage Gravy

4 Yves breakfast "sausage" patties
2 tbsp EVOO
4 oz mushrooms, chopped fine
1 small shallot, chopped fine
2 tbsp butter
3 tbsp flour
2 cups vegetable broth
Pinch of crushed chilies
Sea salt & fresh ground pepper to taste

I heated the EVOO and crumbled the sausage patties in with it. As they started to brown, I added the shallots then the mushrooms and let them all cook about 10 minutes on low.

Fried "sausage"

Frying "sausage", shallot & mushrooms

Laura removed them from the pan and set aside in a bowl while she made the roux with the butter and flour.

Roux

Sausage/mushroom/shallot mixture

Then she added the vegetable broth and sausage/mushroom/shallot mixture and cooked a couple minutes until it was thick and bubbling.

Sausage gravy

We served it over the potatoes and biscuits.

Laura's Fluffy Biscuits

Original recipe here
3 cups flour
1 tbsp and 1-1/2 tsp baking powder
1-1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp and 1-1/2 tsp white sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1-1/2 cups almond milk

The usual directions. Mix the dry ingredients together and cut the shortening in. Laura uses her hands for this. Once you have a crumbly mixture, add milk until it's the perfect dough.

Laura divided the dough made four plain biscuits and kneaded the following into the rest:

• Fresh marjoram
• Fresh chives
• Fresh garlic chives
• Fresh oregano
• Fresh sage
• Fresh green onion

Select herbs

Laura's herbs were all grown indoors over the winter. They took awhile to establish, but they're well on their way now. I love having these on hand!

Fresh herbs

After rolling the dough out, she used a fancy biscuit cutter (drinking glass) to cut the biscuits out, and then brushed them with butter before baking. She baked for about 15 minutes in 425 degrees F oven.

Mashed Potatoes

As usual, we used our favorite Eco-Spuds. I peeled 5-ish potatoes, boiled them in salted water, drained and mashed with some butter and almond milk. Seasoned with sea salt and pepper. So good! My Irish blood constantly craves them.

Mashed potatoes

Green Beans

These were a package of microwavable green beans with the option to boil instead. Which is good, since we don't have a microwave. Made for a nice lazy way to have beans, since they were already washed...thrice.

Compliments green beans

Sausage gravy & biscuits with mashed potatoes & green beans

Strawberry Shortcake

The other half of the biscuit dough was used to make plain biscuits for the strawberry shortcake. The berries are just washed then sliced with about a tablespoon of sugar added. Dessert was topped with coconut whipped cream, which is like whipped dairy cream only more delicious.

Stemmed strawberries

Coconut whipped cream

Strawberry Shortcake

Reviews/Comments

Yummm. Gets a 10 from me. Laura's biscuits are amazing!

Laura: I'm so full I could die- but at least will die happy. OMG that was so good. 10. Only thing I would do differently is use a bit more crushed chilies or spicier sausage.