sausage gravy and biscuits

ingredients:

• a roll of sausage (Jimmy Dean, Bob Evans, Tennessee Pride, etc)
• whole milk
• Pillsbury ready-to-bake biscuits
• flour

recipe:

• preheat the oven (see back of biscuits for the temperature)
• cook sausage over medium heat until it's just-before-done
• turn heat down
• add 1/4 cup flour, stir, and scrape the bottom
• continue adding another 1/4 cup flour a bit at a time, while stirring and scraping, until no "glistening" fat is left
• cook the flour for a few minutes until the white specks turn brown, continue stirring
• put the biscuits in the oven
• pour a lot of milk in, perhaps a quart (4 cups), until the sausage floats sufficiently
• add a pinch of salt and some pepper
• turn heat up to medium
• heat the milk until boiling, then decrease temp and cook until it's thick enough
• cook milk for a total of ~15 minutes, adding more milk if it's thickening too quickly
• (it will thicken more as it cools)