Day 49 (415) - Sausage Gravy

Between football and the weather, I can see me not wanting to go for another self-portrait today, so here you go. No one else in the house this week, so I'm cooking for one.

 

So, first time I've made sausage gravy. It's something I've seen my dad make dozens of times, but never tried myself. Everything was going well enough to start, my sausage was cooking up nice and even. I pull it out of the pan, onto a paper towel on a paper plate.Then I notice I have very little grease in the pan. Umm... okay, whatever, just go with it. So I added the flour and mixed it around... and I had a pan of flour. This isn't anything like my dad's! Okay... what's next... add some milk? Okay. Wait, this is just getting chunky! This isn't right at all! Let's try adding some more milk... okay... that's better... but I still think it needs a little more milk. And it's ghostly-white. Dad's was always somewhat brown. Let's try adding the sausage back into it. Okay, it's at least starting to look more like gravy. Cook it down a bit... it's starting to get to a gravy consistency. Maybe a little more milk... then just cook it back down to this volume. Taste it a little... okay, this tastes like gravy. Good. Now, one last touch... let's add a touch of honey, stir it around, and pour it on some of the leftover texas toast from last week's french toast.

 

Oh, wow; that's good.

 

So, ingredients:

1/2 tube sausage

Some flour

Lots of milk

A little honey

2 slices Texas toast (1 per bowl)

Done