Short and sweet. Biscuits and gravy. Simply filling and positively frugal. (Shown above with turkey bacon, fresh peaches and a little cup full of homemade slow cooker strawberry yogurt). The options and variety for this simple supper are endless.
Biscuits and gravy are on our breakfast for supper rotation. Plus, if a child is beside me, making star biscuits turns it into Cooking Fun! Use canned biscuits in a pinch. I often follow the recipe on the back of the White Lily Self-Rising Flour bag. Children LOVE to mix, squish, roll out and cut biscuits. OR a hoe cake is always a welcome addition. Well, any of the dinner breads listed in the Collection of Dinner Breads are frugal and delicious.
Gravy recipe options:
- $5 Dinners Homemade White Sauce (cost 50 cents)
- Southern Sawmill Gravy
- Pawpaw’s ‘red-eyed’ gravy from that red-and-white checked cookbook. (Just a portion of the Ham, Home Fries & Red-Eyed Gravy recipe)
Another recipe from that red and white checked cookbook.
It’s not complicated at all. Just biscuits and gravy. Easy to whip up last minute. Frugally delicious!
We have a family story about Red-Eyed Gravy. My father, who was a waterman, was upset with my mother because she had never gone out on the workboat with him, so they planned for her to go out one morning. That morning she decided to make a big breakfast because my father never took a lunch with him and she was afraid she would get hungry before they returned home. The breakfast she decided to make included ham smothered with Red-Eyed Gravy, which was not a usual breakfast for us. She wasn’t out on the water very long before she and her breakfast were parted, for she was not used to the rocking of the boat. For years after, she was teased and asked if she wanted some Red-eyed gravy for breakfast.
It is a really yummy thing to eat, though, as long as you don’t get in a boat immediately afterwards. 🙂
Oh sakes Phyllis! I had the same sort of experience with ham – only mine was sausage biscuit and then getting on a boat with my Dad when there was little wind. We just rocked up and down. Ug.
Fortunately, you can make this gravy with turkey bacon drippings, which is what I do!
Oh, sakes! Your granddaddy’s red-eye gravy! He would have loved to sit at your table!
Forever,
Nana