My "Fragrant Delight" Floribunda is putting out new growth like its June instead of November.
Some advocate putting off winterizing until the ground freezes, but I just wait until we have a few good frosts. I have eight roses bushes, so I can generally get this done in a morning. I remove all the summer mulch and fallen leaves back to bare earth. Then I mound up new mulch to cover the crowns of the plants and the ground out to the drip line. It helps to minimize the ground freezing and thawing around the plants over the winter months. In the spring after I prune back; I remove the winter mulch and with it any lingering leaves that might have black spot.
That pretty much wraps up my fall gardening chores. Next I'm heading to the kitchen. Why?
Well folks, its that time of the month already. (No, not THAT time of the month!) The theme is "Breakfast" and the recommended attire is pj's. WooHoo! That's what I'm talking about. Stumble home and you're ready for bed!
I'm bringing the biscuits and gravy. I think this may be a totally midwestern thing because I never experienced sausage gravy until I went to college. But I have to tell you I fell in LOVE with it. I know, totally laden in saturated fats, sodium,etc. but SO GOOD. Here, developed over time and with much trial and error, is my super secret Sausage Gravy recipe:
Crumble 1 lb. Jimmy Dean Sausage (regular) and 1 lb. Jimmy Dean Sausage (hot)in a pan and brown.
DO NOT DRAIN PAN.
Worry there is not enough fat and add 1/2 a stick or so of butter.
Sprinkle in 1/2 cup of flour.
Open a quart of whole milk, pour slowly and stir. Add milk until you get the desired consistency.
Salt and pepper to taste.
Now for the hard part:
Buy frozen Pillsbury biscuits. Throw them on a cookie sheet and bake them for however long it says to on the bag. Shamelessly pass them off as your own.
MMMMMM Good!
5 comments:
It is a midwestern thing, and it is truly wonderful. You can feel your heart slow down as you eat it. My Mom (I grew up in a small town in our state) used to also make hamburger gravy. I left that all behind me when I moved to the "big city" and when my third child was born, my Mom came and stayed with us and made hamburger gravy for my daughters. They thought they had died and gone to heaven after years of baked fish and wheat bread. They still LOVE it and my oldest gets biscuits and gravy whenever she can! Mmmm. Just thinking about it makes me want to figure out where you live and come for dinner!
Oh yeah, did you ever have fried bologna? Another midwestern treat.
You guys are making me sick.
Mmmmmm, biscuits and gravy. - Homer Simpson. Gosh, I can't even remember the last time I had that. But they are soooooo damn good.
Never had fried bologna, but any self-respecting Jersey girl will have have fried up some Taylor Ham. (Yeah SC I'm talkin to YOU!) Its not available many places outside of New Jersey and when my Tom's River connection comes this way he brings three or four.
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