Preparing for family reunion

Carl's kids and spouses and grandkids are all coming together in Albuquerque for a family reunion. Carl committed that we would provide one of the breakfasts with biscuits and sausage gravy. I baked the biscuits ...

... and Carl made the gravy -- here he was browning the sausage. We purchased sausage just for this event when we were in Quartzsite in January. The Coyote market there has a very nice butcher counter and they make their own country/breakfast sausage.

Unfortunately, no pictures of the biscuits or the finished gravy!

One funny thing -- we received quite a bit of food from friends who were leaving from Venture Out and wanted to empty their refrigerators. One friend gave us two tubes of canned biscuits. We normally just make dropped biscuits with a Bis-quik-like (store brand) product, and I made some of those, but we decided to use up the canned biscuits. Show Low is at about 6300', so it is higher elevation than where we are accustomed to living. This causes things to cook differently - for example, water boils at a lower temperature, so if you need to boil something for "10" minutes, it will take longer than that to get done; also, baking can require your to decrease leavening agents, increase liquids or flour, reduce sugar, and increase oven temperature.

We have also noticed that packaging is sometimes expanded -- I bought some potato chips and the bag was fully "inflated"; a plastic bottle had the bottom "pooch" out so it wouldn't sit flat on the counter. With the biscuits, when I opened the tubes, they all but exploded! It just took pulling the label a little ways before the tube opened explosively, and one of them even splattered a small amount of raw biscuit out! I had never had *that* happen before!