Tennessee Recipes (to eat, teacher, business)

[northcountrygirl]

Huh! I guess you can tell I haven't finished my first cup of coffee yet! Ha! Thanks for pointing that out alleycat. Now that I 've accomplished my dumb act this morning I'll just hide over here in the corner until I wake up!!!!

[alleycat]

It's Monday. You're excused.

[northcountrygirl]

Thanks! You are too kind! One more cup of coffee and I'll be fine.

Does anybody have a good recipe for sausage gravy?

[hiknapster]

My husband does an incredible sausage gravy. Natives say it is the best they have ever had! I'll ask him for the recipe tonight.

[Kamkam]

Originally Posted by northcountrygirl

Thanks! You are too kind! One more cup of coffee and I'll be fine.

Does anybody have a good recipe for sausage gravy?

When you get to Tennessee come visit me. I will teach you some southern cooking. Sorry, but I kind of chuckled when you said "recipe for sausage gravy?". I never thought about there being a recipe for it, I have always just thrown things together, but here goes my attempt at it.

• Take a pound of sausage and brown it in a cast iron skillet, take sausage out of pan and set aside keeping the drippings in the pan

• Add flour to the drippings in the pan, just toss some in and start browning it lightly, if it looks too oily throw in a little more flour... Do not let it burn

• Add some water (maybe 4 cups) and a can of cream.

• Stir Stir Stir all the time scraping the bottom and sides of skillet. Bring to a low boil and turn down heat.

• If it thickens too much just add a little more water

• Stir in your sausage, salt, and pepper and simmer a few minutes.

I like using a hot sausage. It gives the gravy more flavor. I hope this helps you out and good luck.

[northcountrygirl]

Thanks KamKam and hiknapster. I know it sounds a little silly when it is something you do all the time. But sausage gravy is not exactly a northern staple. The only place you get it up here is in some resturants, and believe me it's not the same. I know, I've had it in the south. So I appreciate your giving this yankee an education in sausage gravy.

KamKam, I would love to find someone to teach me southern cooking. I am a very good cook, but I'm a yankee cook, and I really want to learn to make southern dishes. Maybe I have some northern recipies you might enjoy we could trade.

[Kamkam]

Northcountrygirl, when you get to TN we can make a girls weekend of it. We will just have to find some guys willing to eat all that food we cook.

[alleycat]

Originally Posted by Kamkam

Northcountrygirl, when you get to TN we can make a girls weekend of it. We will just have to find some guys willing to eat all that food we cook.

I'm excellent at pulling up a chair.

[northcountrygirl]

Ha! Sounds like a plan KamKam, thanks. I didn't really think there would be a lack of guys willing to be taste testers. We'll save you a seat alleycat.

[hiknapster]

KamKam: I think my husband makes it that way, too!