need a recipe

Started by flo, July 23, 2007, 09:17:14 AM

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kdfrawg

I'm pretty sure I had that soup while I was in recovery. I'm not a hospital food fan, myself. Since it isn't bad in the cafeteria, I have to assume that it packing in in those big carts and letting all the molecules mingle. The military serves pretty good food if you're on a big base, and sometimes elsewhere, and that is all cooked in big batches. Hospitals just have bad food for no particular reason, for what I can tell.

Teresa

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There is good gravy and then there is that nasty stuff that people pawn off that is made from pkgs of gravy mix  and bouillon cubes.. ( yuck!..hateful stuff)

( Excuse my braggin')  :angel:
I have to tell you that when it comes to cookin' ( the old way) there isn't anything that I can't cook.. and cook dang good. But I LOVE to eat... therefore I LOVE to cook.


Mama taught me to make gravy when I was big enough to stand on a chair and stir it. And she taught me how to make everything else by scratch the old fashioned way.
My sister and I would come home from school and make a pan of biscuits and gravy or pancakes.. or a pan of cornbread..for our after school snack.. 
**That's the truth, I swear **

( I can't sew a stitch.. but I can make up for it in my cooking abilities.,)  ;)

If I have my steak cooked on a charcoaler or grilled .. I like it with salt.. and that is all. Same with my hamburger and chicken. I don't want a bunch of seasonings on it to take away the flavor of the meat
.
But when it comes to round steak ( rolled in flour and fried in bacon grease) then you take some flour and make your rue with the grease.. and I use half and half and real cream to make my gravy.. Take that ..put on your round steak.. and on your mashed potatoes.. and you have heaven.

Gravy made with chicken fryin's, flour and cream .. on top of biscuits and potatoes...  and you have a taste that will throw your taste buds into outer orbit.
I save all my chicken fryin's and put them in the  freezer so when I want to have something that isn't fried... like baked chicken and rice.. I have something to make gravy with ..( you know.. to put on my rice) YUMMY!

And what about turkey gravy made with the broth from the turkey poured over your turkey dressing and potatoes.. Is that just not the best?

And then you have to have rich brown gravy to go over your homemade rolls, potatoes and roast.

And cream pork chop gravy to go over your rice and pork chops and cornbread..

And biscuits and real cream sausage or pork steak gravy for breakfast..
;D .. guess I like gravy , huh?.. lol

And I make my own pot pies.
Mama used to make the chicken and broth and thicken it with flour.. then she would make tiny little biscuits to go all over the top.. ( kinda like dumplings but they wouldn't be inside) Just chicken and biscuits. (Sister and  I wasn't big into vegetables then) 

I make that too.. but I also take the small individual pie pans and make my pie crust.. then I boil my chicken and make my own pies.
I like mine with only chicken ( sometimes the alphabet macaroni or rice mixed in it )
Still don't like vegetables mixed with my meat.

But my family likes different things mixed with the chicken.
some like corn and peas...some like carrots, corn and green beans chopped up in it.
You can add whatever...

Then I make my top crust..with an extra large amount to crimp around the edges...( I love crust) then bake .

heavenly.. and not a calorie in it., lol







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flo

you know why you make slits in the top crust  ??? ??? SO THE CALORIES CAN ESCAPE  ;D :angel:
MY GOAL IS TO LIVE FOREVER. SO FAR, SO GOOD !

Diane Amberg

Flo, I like the way you think. If only that were true. I had to give up most gravy years ago... too much me. But I make real gravy for Al. I can sew too. All those years in 4-H. And my girl friend and I would take her heifer and hit the road for the dairy shows. Type, showmanship, and fitting....more good memories. Most people put braids in the heifers tail to make it wavy, we put it up in curlers and a plastic bag! We would always win money for fitting. We always won enough to cover all our expenses.

flo

about the only time I make gravy is if we are having mashed potatoes, and that isn't very often.  My problem with gravy is "indigestion" big time, so I usually just leave it alone.  Prefer baked potatoes when we do have them, which presents another problem about size cause I do like it with butter and sour cream.
MY GOAL IS TO LIVE FOREVER. SO FAR, SO GOOD !

Ole Granny

Try steamed potatoes.  This is the only way I can eat plain potatoes.  Steam them with carrots or whatever veggie you prefer.  A touch of pepper and I can forget the salt.  Any other cooked potato has to have salt.  It works for me.
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But rather openings where our loved ones,
Shine down to let us know they are happy."
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Teresa

I love just plain old boiled potato's..
  of course I like them better with peas and a real cream and butter sauce..
:-\

( I'm just hopeless)  :'(
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kdfrawg

You don't sound hopeless to me. You sound like you have pretty good taste in foodstuffs.

;)

flo

I remember Grandma Edwards fixing creamed NEW peas and NEW potatoes for Sunday dinner.  That and fried chicken and wow what a feast.
MY GOAL IS TO LIVE FOREVER. SO FAR, SO GOOD !

patyrn

Is anyone ready to share the recipe for "Methodist Chicken"?  I love covered dish dinners, and our church (Methodist)  is notorious for
eating at the drop of a hat.   

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