Sausage Gravy Fries

Paula, if you said boo, people would go crazy

And you know what that is? That is that star quality, and I'm not blowing smoke up your butt

I got to hold it so I'm... But only like J-Lo has

I am here with one of my dearest friends. This is Leanne Morgan. This is Sinful Monday

You know, you eat on the weekends, or at least I let myself eat on the weekends

During the week, you try to clean your act up. sometimes it's so hard

So this is a series just to heck with it. It's Sinful Monday

and we're going to put the most outrageous things in our mouth just because we want to and because we can

But we know we can't do it every day. Right. So we're making sausage gravy fries

Can y'all think of anything any more fattening than sausage gravy fries

Okay, baby, You want to slice those potatoes because we're going to par-cook our potatoes, y'all

In fact, I've already got some par-cooked back here, and we're going to throw these in the deep fryer

But in the meantime, I still want you to talk. I don't care if you are doing a routine later

Oh, okay, my darling. I just love to hear you talk. Well, and..

I'm going to dice an onion. Excuse me. Okay. Let me ask you this

I'm a redneck, and I know I'm a redneck. And I don't mind you calling me a redneck

Some people call me country. I ain't never lived a day in my life in the country

I'm a farm girl wannabe. So tell me this. Are you what would be called a hillbilly

No. And are you insulted by that term? No, and because... See, I wouldn't be either

I was raised in the country, farming people, on both sides. for generations in Middleton

the state. Well, you just keep slicing them potatoes. Well, I'm finished. Oh, you're already finished. Yeah, is there something

else I could do? Paula, you can have Leanne start the sausage for you

Okay, I sure will. Okay, so I just need to brown that. Yeah, we're just gonna saute

it off along with this peppers and onions. And like I said, we're gonna make sausage gravy

Does this go in first? Yes, honey, that goes in first. And then we're gonna add

All right, let's see. I had your eye warming up for you

All right, there you go. And you can just take it and kind of break it up with your hands

And now you can use your spoon. Okay. Leanne, where you come from, do y'all make like a chocolate gravy

No that not from where my people are from I think you used to see people make chocolate gravy but I was never ready I was going to say I know it from somewhere up there All right now I going to cover these potatoes with water

so they won't turn brown on us, okay? I do love a tater

I mean, I love them. It's my favorite vegetable. All right. So there we go

Those will stay nice and white now. So yeah, just keep browning that, baby

Okay. and I'm gonna throw in... But no, chocolate gravy, wine, are you gonna make it

No, no, no. No, it's not? But somebody asked me one day

they were actually a guest on the show, and they asked if I had ever

had chocolate gravy, and I said, no, I've never heard of chocolate gravy

so I said, well, would you share the recipe with me? And

of course, she was delighted to do that. All righty. Let me

kind of move this out of your way. All this stuff's kind of

just in here. There you go. Now, our flower was getting hot. And we got

it on a teeny eye, and it just takes forever, so talk some more

Okay. Tell them what you been doing. Well, I do mostly... Tell them about your husband

I have a husband. Tell them what your girls call your husband. They call him butthole

Now, and he... Yes, he can be a butthole. It's not all the time, but he's

grumpy because he's got to make a living for all of us and these children and there's

a lot of money going out. Three girls don't come cheap, y'all. Well, two girls

and a boy, so it's... Oh, that's right. You got three girls with you today. Yeah, and now we're going to have two in college

one still in high school. And Charlie is in Ireland studying. He's

in Ireland studying, living the life, and then he goes to Berry

in Rome, Georgia. Well, Daddy's home being a butthole. Well, Daddy's at home

telling everybody to quit burning gas on the road. All right, That stuff is finally starting to get a little brown

So we're going to put like a half a cup of flour in this

because we want this thick. I've got an onion, a red bell, and a pound of ground sausage, y'all

Yes, I did. I put a couple of teaspoons of butter just to flavor it

And now we're going to sprinkle this flour. And you just kind of stir that up

And while you're doing that, I'm going to go back here and I'm gonna fry our potatoes

I'm gonna turn it up a little bit. Now, you want to try to cook that flour

out of there, Leanne. Okay. Only with Paula, there's always a lot of burping

and a lot of talk about body stuff. All right. I'm gonna slowly start adding your milk

You keep stirring. You stir like you never. Oh, murder. Murder, yes

We used to say bloody murder a lot When I was like three and four that was our word And I hadn heard that word murder used like that in forever My little Aunt Lolly used to say it She would say oh murder over everything

My husband's not always a butthole. I feel like I've got a..

He is really a precious husband and daddy. And he volunteers at Children's Hospital

He will never know. He will never know. You just don't let him watch this. Okay

Now where butthole came from is that one day, one day he was leaving for work

I'm gonna put a little cheese, y'all. And he wrote me a note

So he can clog us up good. He wrote me a note and his idea of a love note was

can you please make some banana bread? Love the butthole. And he drew a picture and I thought, is that a sign

And it was a little dot and lines coming out. Oh no, that was a butthole

It was a butthole. And I thought it was so funny, so I made the banana bread for him

This really smells good. I thought, what? We're doing what with gravy

Oh, I know. I've got some fries that's already just been sitting here in the oven

and these look pretty dadgum good. So why don't we just snatch these up

Because you can fry your potatoes earlier, y'all, but then just hold them in the oven, you know, on warm

And I'm going to... I think I'm going to go ahead and take these out

so I don't have to worry about them, Leanne. Okay. They could probably stand to cook a little bit more

So those are pretty much ready, but I always twice-fry my French fries, y'all

But to me, the best potato is a twice-fried potato. When you're making this kind of gravy, y'all

some people like real thick gravy, some like thinner gravy, so it's all up to your own discretion

you know, as to how much milk. I kind of like mine like medium

Try not to get a shot of my butt, Frank. Oh, listen, when I got things going in the oven

in fact, I can't believe I missed that, because usually I let my guests do the butt shots

Let's just say I've had a hard winter and spring, and I don't want him to take a picture of my butt

Try to keep it from, like, here. Up. Paula's got a little bitty tiny butt

Put it on her butt. I got a boy butt. I got a boy butt. I got boy hips

But I got a man-sized waist. All right All right All right Now we just going to take our gravy and pour that over our potatoes just kind of something like that Yeah Oh my gosh

Now, you think this ain't a sinful Monday. That is. That's spiritual warfare potatoes

I'm telling you, I'll kiss your honey on the courthouse square and give you 30 minutes to draw a crowd

if this ain't a big sin. How is this? Oh, my God

Bruce, your mouth is watering, ain't it honey? Yeah. My shirt's wet, it's coming back

I was going to say, Diane, is he spit all over the back of your dress

All right. Do you want a plate full or do you want just a taste

I want just a taste. OK, that's me, because I'd rather give it to our friends

All right, I'm just putting a few fried onion rings on top. on top

All right, so do you like a little dollop? A little dollop of sour cream

I like a dollop. I do. I'll just kind of do this

This is my evil twin sister, y'all, doing this. This is not me

All righty. A little hot sauce. Do you like a little hot sauce

Okay, a little better. Okay. All right, get your fork, baby. Okay

Let's dig in. Dig in, honey. What's taking us so long, they're saying

That is really, really good

And I would have never put that together. What did you say, Bruce

I forget your brain. All right. All right, now, y'all, I got you some extra hot sauce if you want it

Now, y'all, just gather around. Come on up here. All right, if you like this sinful Monday recipe

remember, just surf this network. This is a new section we've just started doing

But trust me, Monday rolls around every seven days. I don't know what you do, but they're always there, ain't they, Leanne

So surf around, and we got some good sinful Monday quick dishes

Yeah! Yeah. That was pretty good