What would you call this dish?

[BonitaApplebum]

If you made a white sauce from a roux, and added it to browned and drained ground sausage, what is that called? Would you call it something else if you added cheese to it?

[radial]

Sausage gravy?

[BonitaApplebum]

Do people put cheese in sausage gravy?

[radial]

Do people put cheese in sausage gravy?

Some Southern people do.  They call it cheesy sausage gravy and pour it over biscuits. 

[Run Amok]

Yes, that is how I make sausage gravy. ETA: I don't normally add cheese to my sausage gravy, personally, but I can certainly see someone doing so.

What kind of cheese are you adding? Bechamel+ gruyere & parm = mornay sauce. But, I think people would probably call it alfredo.

[BonitaApplebum]

I never made this before, it was just something I kind of threw together with what I had. I used a spicy Italian sausage and a shredded cheese blend from the supermarket (cheddar and jack). I topped it with halved grape tomatoes and threw it under the broiler for a few minutes to finish it.

I have never been tempted to eat or make sausage gravy in my life, in fact I was only vaguely aware of what it meant. But now that I've accidentally prepared it, I'm kind of in love with it.