Biscuits & Dirty Sausage Gravy from Two Dudes Catering

Biscuits & Dirty Sausage Gravy from Two Dudes Catering

Making sure this recipe is preserved on the blog. I've started cutting and pasting recipes here, because I used to link to the recipes and then years later the link would no longer work and the recipe would be gone. 

Way back in 2007, Food Network had a show called Two Dudes Catering. It was Vinny Ditolo and Jon Shook, before they were famous. I loved the show. It only ran for one season, but it was so entertaining, and the recipes were great. I wish they would bring the show back. Anyway, in one of the episodes, they made biscuits and gravy. Since then, this basically how I made sausage gravy, though I don't measure anything.

butter

log breakfast sausage

heavy cream

Tabasco

Worcestershire

maple syrup

salt & freshly cracked pepper

In the episode they made this, they called it Old Mother. 

Sausage Gravy:

1 tablespoon butter

1 log package sausage (recommended: Jimmy Dean)

2 cups heavy cream

1 teaspoon hot sauce (recommended: Tabasco)

1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

1/3 cup maple syrup

Salt and freshly cracked black pepper

Biscuits:

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup cold butter

1 cup whole milk

All-purpose flour, for dusting

Cream, for glazing

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Directions

1. For the sausage gravy:
2. In a large heavy bottom pot melt the tablespoon of butter and brown the sausage for about 5 minutes. Add the heavy cream and bring to a simmer. Once at a simmer, add the hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce and maple syrup. Simmer the gravy for 15 minutes and season with salt and pepper, to taste.
3. For the biscuits:
4. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
5. In a bowl sift together the dry ingredients. Add the butter and incorporate the flour into it until the texture is consistent. Pour the milk into the flour mixture and mix with a fork until the dough begins to come together.
6. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and roll out until it's about 1-inch thick. Cut the dough vertically and then horizontally, yielding approximately 15 square biscuits. Lay the biscuits out on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Glaze the top of each biscuit with a little bit of cream and place the sheet in the oven for 12 to 15 minutes, or until the biscuits turn golden in color.
7. Assemble by placing a biscuit on a plate and covering it with about 1/2 a cup of the sausage gravy.