Biscuits and Gravy

What is a Sunday brunch without biscuits and gravy?  The creamy mess is the ultimate decadent, satisfying breakfast soul food.  It's jambalaya's cousin, four times removed: there's a million different ways to make it, and no generally accepted "right way".

If you're reading this in hopes of finding a full recipe, you're out of luck.  The technique and ingredients for the gravy are simple: butter and flour for roux, a lot of milk, half-pound of cooked sausage (I prefer Jimmy Dean 'Original'), and lightly seasoned with onion powder, Tabasco sauce, and black pepper.  More than once during wintertime, I've been so impatient to let the gravy cool and thicken, I've stood in my pajamas outside in below-zero temperatures, holding the pot of molten goodness and begging it to hurry up doin' its thing so I could eat it.  

Delicious.