Biscuits and Sausage Gravy

As breakfast comfort foods go, there is no more a ubiquitous dish than biscuits and sausage gravy.

My mother makes the best biscuits and gravy I've ever had - to this day. Our house was kind like of a halfway-house when I was growing up - there was always a few extra mouths to feed at the dinner, or breakfast, table. She would make dozens of biscuits and gallons of sausage gravy and we'd plow through it all.

In one sitting.

We were hungry teenagers.

As we got older and each of us kids started spending the holidays at the houses of our respective significant others, my mother started a new Thanksgiving Day tradition. Since we were never around for the big turkey dinner, Mom would make a big breakfast for everyone before we scampered off to spend the rest of the day with whatever flavor-of-the-week had caught our attention. It never failed that biscuits and gravy were the focal point of that breakfast.

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Tabasco-Cheddar Biscuits

TA: I love your lumpy biscuits.

Me: Oh...thanks.

TA: I love your lumpy biscuits with the morsels of flavor curd inside them.

Me: Wow. Right.

And so the conversation went as we enjoyed these delicious, spicy biscuits with the Chicken, Bacon and Sweet Corn Soup.

I remember as a child that my mother almost never used premade mixes for anything. She made everything from scratch. Everything.

I, however, am kind of lazy.

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