Brits who complain about (American) biscuits and gravy have clearly never had (American) biscuits and gravy
As a Brit who’s never had American biscuits and gravy:
“I don’t know enough about that to have an opinion yet.”
Try saying it more, it feels good.
We made some for the first time about a month ago and it was pretty good. I have some ideas for improving next time, but it was good enough to be worth making again.
I did feel very silly calling it biscuits and gravy though. The “biscuits” are more like dumplings or something, made from crumbly dough, not actually biscuits (aka cookies or crackers for Americans, I think). The “gravy” is also not gravy, it’s a thick sauce with vegetable lumps in. Ours was mostly tasteless but flavoured with thyme for a nice almost aftertaste. I was worried when I was cooking the sauce, but with a whole dinners-worth it was a really nice, subtle flavour. It lets the herbs and vegetables shine through.
I was looking up a recipe to jog my memory for the sauce, and apparently this is a breakfast food? Wtf is wrong with you, all of America? This was like a nice hearty dinner lol. What a bizarre way to start your day. Anyway, thanks for reading my review of biscuits and gravy that I don’t remember why I wrote any more 😂
Dafuq gravy did you have with vegetables? It’s a heavily peppered bechamel, starting from a sausage fat roux… and to spite the French a bit more we use black pepper.
Vegetarian? We did use black pepper in ours but not that much. I usually like quite spicy food whereas the other person I was cooking for does not, so it’s possible I didn’t put as much pepper in as most people would. It’s also possible that I just didn’t notice the pepper as much because I usually like eating chillies with my food.
Leave it to Brits to call pepper “spicy.”
