Seasoned ground beef patties, dredged lightly in flour, then pan fried, onions caramelized in the drippings in which a tomato-based gravy is created, and the patties returned to finish.

Hamburger Steaks in Tomato Gravy

Hamburger Steaks and Gravy is a go to for me and a favorite meal for my meat and potatoes hubby. 

It's super easy to make, tastes great and is a filling, belly warmin', delicious meal. 

As much as we love tomato gravy here in the South, trading the classic brown gravy for a tomato-based version is a natural transition.

Make Ahead Turkey Gravy - a flavorful gravy, made ahead from roasted turkey wings or legs.

Make Ahead Turkey Gravy

There is nothing as delicious with that holiday turkey than a gravy made from the drippings, but it becomes just one more of those last minute things that has to be done in the whole process of all the other last minutes things. All too often folks just skip it and use a canned gravy, which of course, while there's not a thing wrong with that, it just doesn't have that same home-cooked, Thanksgiving flavor.

Enter the make ahead gravy!

A homestyle gravy, made with a flour roux, bacon drippings and broth or water here, or for a creamy version, use milk. Shown served over a baked pork tenderloin and rice.

Bacon Gravy

Sunday I made a pork tenderloin. You know the ones - the packages of pre-seasoned pork loins that you literally don't have to do a thing to except pop in the oven or on the grill? Yeah, that's the one. My mother in law picks them up on sale from Winn Dixie all the time and the Cajun happened to comment how good one was when we were over there one Sunday. Lo and behold, next thing I knew she was sending him home with a couple. I told y'all, she's like that!

A breakfast casserole made with eggs, biscuits and sausage gravy.

Egg, Biscuit and Sausage Gravy Breakfast Casserole

This is another one of those recipes that's been making the rounds on Facebook for awhile, made with canned biscuits, a packet of sausage gravy and eggs. Nothing wrong with that!

I wanted to make it from scratch though, so I made up a quick biscuit dough and easy homemade sausage gravy instead. You may certainly exchange that out for the convenience products to save time, but do keep in mind the sodium levels on any pre-packaged product so that you don't oversalt or overseason. You'll need an 8-count can of refrigerated biscuits and a packet of sausage gravy mix that makes 2 cups (such as Pioneer brand).

 

Easy, Quick Microwave General Purpose Roux

10 Minute Quick Microwave General Purpose Roux

You can make a roux in the microwave. Oh yes you can! It's faster than the oven, and it's easier than the stove top. And, I'm gonna show you how!!

How to Make Homemade Giblet and Egg Gravy in the Roasting Pan

A homemade gravy made from the roasting pan drippings, turkey giblets and egg.

How to Make Homemade Giblet and Egg Gravy

My Mama always made turkey giblet gravy on the holidays. It was just a given that you'd find gravy on the table with those little bits of giblets floating in it. I under-appreciated it back then, but now I know the added punch of flavor that infusing the gravy with giblets gives us. Some southern cooks add chopped, hard boiled egg to their gravy. Mama never did and neither do I, but feel free to throw some in if you like. You'll want 1 hard boiled egg, diced and stir it in just before serving.

A roux based gravy made with tomatoes is traditional served over biscuits, but can be served with meatloaf, over rice, or spooned on grits, alongside fish and with some hushpuppies.

Southern Homestyle Tomato Gravy

Southern Tomato Gravy is another one of our classic southern recipes, that goes great with those Sour Cream Biscuits I just posted a little earlier.  Totally different from what our Northeastern Italian neighbors call Sunday Tomato Gravy {what we Down South call Tomato Sauce, or Creole Gravy, or more often, just Spaghetti Sauce} meant for pasta.  This tomato gravy is the kind of gravy that us Southerners most traditionally love to eat over hot, and preferably homemade, southern buttermilk biscuits, like we do with our sausage gravy.

How to Make Homemade Gravy and Some Tips for Perfect Gravy!

Chicken Gravy made with bacon drippings & homemade stock

How to Make Homemade Gravy

If you want to learn how to make homemade gravy, here's another for the "how-to" series of posts here. I know of lot of my regular readers are foodies and certainly know how to make gravy, but I hope that those in search of info will happen across this and find some help. We all had to learn somewhere! I recently made a casserole in need of chicken gravy and just today made roast beef po'boys and needed a beef gravy, so a "how-to" seemed fitting.

A gravy made with flour, cocoa, sugar, butter, vanilla and milk, is best served right over some piping hot biscuits... yes, even if they are straight out of the can!

Chocolate Gravy and Biscuits

Okay. Chocolate and gravy. Two words that you don't likely associate together, so I know this is a totally weird concept. I do!!  But hey, don't knock it till ya try it cuz I tell you what, there are lots of google searches that land here looking for this stuff.  Give it a try and I'm guessing you'll be sold too.

Southern Style Peppered Milk Gravy shown on Chicken Fried Steak

Southern Style Peppered Milk Gravy

A Southern favorite, this cream gravy is made with pan drippings, bacon drippings or butter, and often a combination of one or more of them. Milk, or a mixture of water and milk, take the place of the typical stock used in gravies, and a milk gravy is typically heavily peppered. You may also replace the milk with chicken stock or water for use as a gravy over meats.

Simple sausage gravy made with Mexican chorizo for a big flavor boost.

Chorizo Sausage Gravy

Chorizo sausage gravy is a change of pace from the usual. Doesn't that just look yummy? I usually make my sausage gravy with Jimmy Dean bulk sausage - the kind that comes in the chubby roll. It's the best bulk sausage in the South, in my little ole humble Southern opinion, and I've tried many! It just has the right amount of seasonings and flavor to me.

Today, however, I had some Mexican chorizo sausages in the freezer, so thought I would use those instead. That pretty orangish-red color in that picture up there however, is a result of that chorizo and you won't have that color with the regular Jimmy Dean sausage.

Now I really love my Jimmy Dean, but I gotta say, with some hot from the oven biscuits, whether homemade, from a mix, or even from the freezer (yes! biscuits freeze wonderfully!), this shore 'nuf was delicious!

Delicious milk-based sausage gravy, sometimes called sawmill gravy, is a southern favorite. Serve this delectable goodness over some hot homemade buttermilk biscuits for a little piece of heaven.

Homemade Southern Sausage Gravy

Southern biscuits and sausage gravy - talk about some good ole comfort food. I've made my gravy this way for as long as I've been cooking, but it's not like there's really much of a secret to it really. To be honest, I'm guessing just about all of us southerners make it pretty much the same way.

Condiments, Sauces, Marinades, Glazes and Gravy

A beautiful jar of oven baked dark roux!

Condiments, Sauces, Marinades, Glazes and Gravy

Sauce Piquant

Easy Homemade Pizza Sauce

Easy Marinara Dipping Sauce

Fresh Tomato Pasta Sauce

Slow Roasted Tomatoes for Sauce

Southern Homestyle Tomato Gravy for Biscuits

Homemade Southern Sausage Gravy for Biscuits

Southern Style Peppered Milk Gravy

Chorizo Sausage Gravy

Cream Gravy

10-Minute All Purpose Microwave Roux

Easy Dark Oven Roux

How to Make Homemade Gravy

How to Make Homemade Shrimp Stock

How to Make Homemade Chicken Stock

Whiskey Sauce

Blender Hollandaise

Honey Pecan Glaze

Honey Mustard Meat Sauce

Spicy Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce

Ham Glazes {scroll to bottom}

Whipped Honey Butter

How to Make Compound Butter

Homemade Cream Soup Substitute

Slow Roasted Tomatoes

Sweet & Spicy Rotel Sauce

Burger and Meatball Sauce

Homemade Comeback Thousand Island Salad Dressing

Kickin' Rotel Restaurant Style Salsa

Easy Cocktail Sauce

Cajun Mayonnaise

Mississippi Comeback Sauce

Remoulade Sauce

Spicy White Remoulade Sauce

Lazy Man's KetMayo (Fry) Sauce

Cajun Steak Marinade

Spicy Sugar Steak Rub

Sweet & Spicy Meatloaf Glaze

Deep South Dish Signature Sweet and Spicy Barbecue Sauce

Dressed Up Commercial BBQ Sauce

Creole Tomato Sauce

Easy Homemade Spaghetti Sauce

Chicken Spaghetti Sauce

Old Fashioned Southern Boiled Dressing

Spicy Sour Cream Horseradish Dipping Sauce

Blue Cheese Dipping Sauce

Spicy Mustard Sauce

Creamy Jalapeno Sauce

Honey Wasabi Sauce

Spicy Orange Dipping Sauce & Jezebel Sauce

Cranberry Relish

Spicy Pomegranate Cranberry Sauce

Fruit Dip

Pickled Onions

Fire 'n Ice Sweet and Spicy Pickles

Million Dollar Relish

Giardiniera - Pickled Veggies

Icebox Bread and Butter Pickles

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