Maple Sausage and Jalapeño Gravy over Biscuits

Anyone who is a true southerner... Will always love a good gravy biscuit!  There are many places that have really good sausage gravy and biscuits, probably my favorite is Bojangles!  I would be there now if there was one located here in Utah.  Alas there is not, so I resort to the next best thing!  I make it myself.

Making biscuits and gravy should be a rite of passage for any southerner... But I'm afraid it is not... We should pass a law, but I digress... This particular day, I opted for maple sausage and added some diced jalapeño for a little heat.  It was surprisingly good.

Basic Sausage Gravy (this recipe is not exact, I didn't measure, I just eyeballed everything)*

Ingredients:

1/2 package ground sausage

3 Tablespoons All purpose flour (about)

1 cup Milk (about)

Salt and pepper to taste

Basic sausage gravy is simple enough: You start by browning your sausage over medium heat, then drain it depending on how much grease there is.  Next you want to add flour, and stir it in with the sausage, and let it brown just a bit (or longer if you want a darker gravy), then add your milk, stir fairly constantly until it starts to thicken.  I find that if I turn off the heat just before the gravy is the consistence I want, it will continue to thicken up.  I also usually add some salt and pepper to mine, to taste of course.

* to make what I did, just use maple flavored sausage and add a diced jalapeño to the sausage as you brown it.