Sausage and Cheese Stuffed Biscuits with Gravy

It may not always be easy to find recipes for kids or at least not in my household.  When it comes to specifics like onions, bell peppers, etc I often have to omit them or I get the big "ew" and refusal of eating. Now I'm a lot more lenient than my parents were because I couldn't leave the table until I ate everything on my plate and/or tried everything offered at the table whether I liked it or not.  The truth is, I still don't like those very foods today so if anything, it taught me to try things.

Here's a recipe that I get asked to make fairly often at my house not just by the kiddo but also by hubs as well.  It's very good and fun.  I found my inspiration in one of Sandra Lee's cookbooks.  With this recipe and many like hers you can easily swap ingredients to suit your need.  So for the biscuit part you can whip up a batch of homemade or use a bisquick mix like she does.  I on the other hand cheated and simply used canned biscuits.   This is one of our kid approved recipes at our house although I will say for the little one, the gravy is omitted on that plate!  Can't win at everything, right?

Here's the basics
6 sausage patties
1 6 count package of canned biscuits
6 tbsp of sharp cheddar cheese

milk, flour, garlic powder, salt and pepper for gravy

Preheat oven to 450.  Spray a 6 count muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray.  In a skillet brown and cook your sausage.  Reserve skillet dripping for gravy.  Set sausage aside.

Take your biscuits and gently peel them in half.

Set a piece of sausage on one side of a biscuit then 1 tbsp of cheese over the top of the sausage.

Then wrap it with the other biscuit half and seal the edges by pinching.  Place in muffin tin and brush the tops with milk prior to baking.

Bake in oven for about 11 minutes or until golden brown on top.

For your gravy take a few tbsp of flour and whisk the flour in the sausage drippings over medium heat until slightly browned. Then add about 1 cup of milk or buttermilk and continue to whisk until desired consistency.  Add more milk if necessary.  I add in garlic powder, salt and pepper to taste. Serve the gravy over the hot biscuits.

Nummm.