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"Cat Heads" and Gravy?

      This is the time of year I think of them.

      It's built into my annual cycle like smoking WAS in my memories.

      Thing is, I was able to let smoking go and there will come a day when I let biscuits and gravy go, in the grave-y.

 

Here's my recipe:

1 L or Quart whole milk or half and half

1 roll of sausage 12-16oz

1/3-1/2 Cup Flour

Salt and pepper

      I cook the sausage in one of those small entree trays that I've saved for this and defrosting those individually frozen fish portions for Hoggie.

50% for 5 minutes.

      When it's cooked I use one of those square ended bamboo blades to chop it up in the 2 qt container I will be making the gravy in. If there's any pink, I can put it back in for a couple more minutes. I put the flour in first to coat the cooked sausage completely.

      I then add the milk or cream and cook it on high for 5 minutes.

It won't be fully thickened yet but after those first five minutes, you can taste the salt the sausage has added against the sweetness added by the milk or cream and add your salt and pepper to taste.

      Then you put it back in at 50% for 5-10 minutes and let it finish cooking the flour and thickening. 50% is so it doesn't boil over in your microwave.

Bake your biscuits and enjoy

This will make four large servings or 3 Dale size.

      A wife's uncle by marriage in Kentucky called his biscuits "cat heads", because they were as big as "cat heads."

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elvan
Member

Cat heads...hahahaha!  On National Cat Day no less.  My mother used to make HUGE meatballs and HUGE cream puffs...THEY could have been called Cat Heads...mine are MINI, when I make them which is not often.  

I can almost smell that gravy.

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Tamjy
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Biscuits & gravy - yum.  Ellen, might you have your mother's recipe for cream puffs?

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https://wishesndishes.com/homemade-cream-puffs/

My mom didn't use instant pudding but basically you make the dough, bake it, let them cool, slice them

(we always just sliced a little off the top like you do a jack-o-lantern)

We then filled them 2/3 with vanilla pudding and the top 1/3 with whipped cream then, put the top on and dusted with powdered sugar. 

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SimplySheri
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Omgosh, that sounds delicious!!  Is it ok for me to print this out, Dale?  I need to make it  

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elvan
Member

I make my own puff pastry which really isn't that hard, it just requires staying focused.  I make the filling according to my mother's recipe and if I make a large batch...THAT is challenging because it has to be stirred constantly while cooking.  I frost with homemade milk chocolate frosting.  It's all from my mother's recipes.  I usually make them for the Holidays but not so much in between.

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SimplySheri
Member

Geez....yum again   Obviously I must be hungry because everything sounds so good!

Print it

Make it 

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sweetplt
Member

LOL...I have a picture of those cat heads...lol...I must pass on biscuits and gravy...my thighs getting bigger just reading the recipe...Have a beautiful day Dale...~ Colleen 113 DOF 

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Tamjy
Member

Sounds wonderful.  Would you mind sharing the recipe?

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