need a recipe

[Ole Granny]

Wise words, indeed, Ole Granny.

Bad gravy is indeed a pretty repulsive substance.

But good gravy makes it all worthwhile.

Understand, gravy has places that it belongs and places that it doesn't. It belongs on mashed potatoes and doesn't belong on a steak. So a man can't live on gravy alone. But I do remember with great fondness Tee Jay's Country Place Restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. Art the manager always said they alway had seven kinds of gravy, but that included the creamed chipped beef.

I stand corrected.  I have eaten gravy alone but not much.  Fried potatoes and gravy are a fine mix.  Also, include Chicken Fried Steak and gravy or plain bread covered in gravy.  Sausage, biscuits and gravy--yummm! Think I'm headed for the sausage in the freezer.  Plain steak, if good, should not have gravy.  I like my steak flavor to be steak.  No A-1, 57, nothing.

[kdfrawg]

Ole Granny, we are on precisely the same wavelength when it comes to gravy -- and steak.

[Janet Harrington]

First of all, let me say that the food groups I like best are these starting from the top:   meat, potatoes, gravy. 

Second of all, gravy does belong on steak.  There is nothing better then having fried round steak and making gravy from the left over grease, then pouring that gravy all over some kind of potato and all over the steak.  Love it, love it, love it.  Eating white gravy with fried chicken is indeed a very good meal. 

[Wilma]

My husband used to say, when he was asked what kind of sauce he wanted for his steak, "a good steak doesn't need anything on it".

[flo]

that means Jim knew how to enjoy a steak.  Why kill the flavor of a good steak with some nasty tasting sauce.

[kdfrawg]

There is nothing better then having fried round steak and making gravy from the left over grease, then pouring that gravy all over some kind of potato and all over the steak. 

I have no difficulty thinking of things that are better. It does not sound repulsive. I'm sure I would eat it. But it would never make the top of my list.

More for you, Janet!

[flo]

Janet, cream gravy made from fried chicken cracklins is hard to beat.  Smother your smashed potatoes with it, little salt and pepper and enjoy.  Hamburger, sausage, or chipped beef gravy over toast is the best kind of breakfast.  (served it on toast since I couldn't make biscuits) and still prefer it that way.  That's down home eatin' and cookin' cause that's the way we was raised. Still prefer my chicken fried steak ala carte, tho

[kdfrawg]

You go, Flo!

All I can say is "YUM!"

[Janet Harrington]

smashed potatoes

Smashed potatoes.  That's what we used to call our potatoes because we had to smash them to make them smooth.

[Diane Amberg]

 You all and your dissertations on gravy just gave me a flash back of my mom back in 1976 after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In those days they did a complete radical mastectomy and took everything. She was in the hospital for several days and did not care for the hospital food at all. She was not a good eater at best. I walked into her room one day and asked how she was doing and she announced, "Well, they brought me cream of gravy soup again."