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Did a dry rub with brown sugar for about 10 hours. Hickory smoke. 

I tried for 1/4" though that was probably 1/3". It's a small brisket of only 3.5 lbs or so it looks bigger. 

It was better than some restaurants I've been to but that's not a high bar. 

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The brisket fairy says salt and pepper only, plus some fanciness with spraying it down every hour while cooking.  Helps to develop a nice bark.  I usually use brown sugar rubs on ribs.

 

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No pics, but tonight was taco night.  Deep-fried shrimp tacos with roasted tomatillo and cowhorn pepper salsa, and miso and garlic-confit refried beans between the doubled corn tortillas for Colie, and deep-fried avocado (and the same other things) tacos for me.  Guacamole and homemade tortilla chips as a starter.  The grocery store had some great looking big freshwater shrimp on sale, so I also made four pan-seared freshwater shrimp with a chipotle-lime vinaigrette for Colie.  Pretty good stuff, especially with a brace of grapefruit-based cocktails. 

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One positive thing about having Texan parents and living in Texas was learning to make "proper" biscuits and gravy.

Start with pork breakfast sausage of choice...

 

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Cook until nicely browned...

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You may need to add fat, if your sausage doesn't leave you with enough. I prefer butter, though my Aunt keeps a bowl of bacon fat on hand just for such occasions...

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Add flour and stir into fat until a nice roux is formed. Cook roux until a nice golden brown color is achieved. Mix into sausage...

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Add milk and stir near continuously, until roux thickens milk to a nice consistency. 

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One positive thing about having Texan parents and living in Texas was learning to make "proper" biscuits and gravy.
Start with pork breakfast sausage of choice...
 
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Cook until nicely browned...
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You may need to add fat, if your sausage doesn't leave you with enough. I prefer butter, though my Aunt keeps a bowl of bacon fat on hand just for such occasions...
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Add flour and stir into fat until a nice roux is formed. Cook roux until a nice golden brown color is achieved. Mix into sausage...
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Add milk and stir near continuously, until roux thickens milk to a nice consistency. 
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About bloody time someone did it right. So many people do it wrong around here.

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