Cream Toast & Biscuits with Gravy

Thanks, John, I'll see if I can find Franz Sweet Dark here. Looks delicious!

Its always interesting to see "regional" food (yes, it may be a big region but its not my region) Being Canadian I'd never seen nor heard of sausage gravy on biscuits (or anything else) until I travelled to Spokane with my son for a basketball tournament maybe 10 years ago. The buffet breakfast included this pot of whitish grey stuff with lumps in it that you were apparently supposed to ladle on biscuits. I passed. While I'm sure the dish can be prepared well (I've seen recipes) but this hotel's rendition did not tempt me.

I also recall my first experience with grits. About 20 years ago I worked for Mobil oil and I was on a business trip to Cape Girardeau Missouri for a major emergency response exercise. There were MoBots from all over (including those of us from Canada) and the first morning in the hotel dining room I scooped up some stuff I thought was cream of wheat. It wasn't so I asked the waitress what it was and she replied in her charming southeast Missouri accent, "why, them's grits honey" and then my dining companions seated nearby proceeded to tell me the various ways they preferred to eat their grits. I have become a convert to the pleasures of grits even though they aren't generally available in grocery stores in Canada - I buy them when visiting the US I have not been similarly converted to the enjoyment of sausage gravy. I think the memory of that first experience was so unappetizing that I've been ruined for life. Maybe hypo-therapy might help.

Biscuits and gravy > grits

Marko, if you like sausage gravy, and it's delicious, try SOS. It's proper name is creamed chipped beef, but in the military it was just shit on a shingle (SOS) since it was served over toast. No matter where I served no mess hall could screw it up and it was always edible. I make a version today that doesn't use dried beef but chopped meat (as did the army) and it's still good. Serve it over toast, biscuits or bannock (camp bread).

If you need my recipe let me know. But warning, I add onions to mine and the "real" recipe doesn't use them. Of course a 'net search will also yield recipes.