This has become a staple at our house for busy nights, sad nights, happy nights, celebratory mornings. It wasn’t until college when my roommate Sara (not OBB Sara, the Sara who also introduced me to this Spanish Rice recipe) showed me that biscuits and sausage gravy (and other kinds of meats in other kinds of gravy) are delicious and fit for consumption for all. But all the step-kids, too, because man, it’s a hard place for everyone.
Heaven help all the step-parents out there. I was so far out of my comfort zone and I just kind of felt like I had invaded someone else’s Thanksgiving dinner and I sat on my bed and sobbed. Why would someone, anyone do this? It sounded gross. I could not even wrap my brain around such a thing. And for breakfast, we had biscuits and gravy. Instead of staying in a hotel like we always had with my mom, we stayed at my step-aunt’s condo. We had our own foods and traditions and things and biscuits and gravy was not one of them.Īfter my mom died and my dad remarried, I remember going to Salt Lake City with my step-mom and step-siblings. I lived in Utah, which is not a place where one encounters these things on a regular basis, and my mom just didn’t make it. So as a little kid, I had no idea biscuits and gravy was a thing. I’m sorry, Brad Christensen, for being a brat. I didn’t know this was not a thing until I was older!) I think to the un-initiated, comfort foods are often considered weird or gross by other people, like that time I was at my friend’s house when I was a kid and her dad made us chipped beef gravy on toast (or SOS, as he called it…it’s kind of a PG-13 acronym) and I refused to eat it. Like ground beef cooked with onions, usually with ketchup on the side.
Comfort food is kind of a funny thing–I think the things we find the most comforting are usually the things we grew up eating that we don’t realize other people don’t always eat (like at our house, a busy night dinner was hamburger and onions.
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