Breakfast Time

3 recipes 1 post! You don’t have to eat these together, I mean barf. But you could eat the biscuits with the sausage or the biscuits with the chocolate gravy. Let’s not even mention the sausage and chocolate gravy tog… That wouldn’t be too good. It beats me where the sausage recipe came from, but the chocolate gravy came from Buns in my Oven, http://www.bunsinmyoven.com/2010/11/11/biscuits-and-chocolate-gravy/, and the biscuits came from a co-op my used to go to when we were in the Carolinas. Anyway here they are.

        Biscuits

4 cups all-purpose flour

2½ Tablespoons baking powder

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

½ teaspoon salt

1 cup (1 block) butter, softened

11/3 cups milk

        Homemade Sausage

3 pounds ground beef (about 1½ kilos)

1 onion, chopped finely

½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

½ teaspoon ground nutmeg

½ teaspoon ground ginger

¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper (or ¼ teaspoon Indonesian chili powder)

1 teaspoon cumin

1 teaspoon coriander

1 teaspoon ground pepper

1 teaspoon sage

1 teaspoon oregano

2 teaspoons salt

½ Tablespoon basil

2 eggs

        Chocolate Gravy

½ cup butter

5 Tablespoons cocoa powder

¼ cup all-purpose flour

¾ cup white sugar

2 cups milk

1/8 teaspoon vanilla

tiny pinch of salt (very small)

·         BISCUITS: Combine flour, baking powder, cream of tartar, and salt. Cut in the soft butter with a knife ‘til it becomes crumbly (the mixture). The little balls should be no bigger than a small pea. Stir in the milk. And stir ‘til it becomes a dough.

·         Preheat the oven to 232C (450F).

·          Then put on a floured counter or whatever and knead about 5 minutes. Then flatten with your hands ‘til it’s about ½ in thick, and cut with cookie cutters. Bake for 12-15 mins.

·         HOMEMADE SAUSAGE: Mix together (I’m not going to name them all) all the ingredients. Shape into a log and wrap in foil. Let it chill for about an hour. Then cut into patties and fry in coconut oil.

·         CHOCOLATE GRAVY: Melt the butter in a sauce pan. Stir in the cocoa powder and flour ‘til combined well and bubbly from heat. Stir in the sugar until the mixture is nice and thick. Then slowly add the milk whisking constantly. Continue to cook over heat, stirring constantly, ‘til the mixture has thickened into a nice gravy like consistency. About 5 mins.

·         Stir in the salt and vanilla and remove from the heat.