Posted on 04/20/2015 8:34:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
you must understand I was eating home made lasagna and pizza when I was 6 :) and I mean from scratch. Mommas 82 now and cant make them anymore from scratch, but wow were they great!!
I was born in Lamesa basically because my uncle was the doctor there. Left about three days later for California and WWII.
If you ever find a Cracker Barrel restaurant like out on a highway somewhere you might be able to find some good Southern cooking.
I made 10 of these last week with mashed potatoes and gravy. I didn’t know there was a festival!
Or biscuits and gravy and corn on the cob. Making the gravy is an art!
Don’t know what chicken fried steak is?!?!
I’m speechless. You need to get yourself to a southern style eatery post haste! The longer you remain in ignorance the more likely you’re gonna turn into a communist or support Obama for a third term!!! :-)
You had your own festival. What were you making them for?
I was making them for my husband and kids. I need a professional kitchen :)
It can also be called Country Fried Steak and is smothered in white gtavy. Yummy.
I love CFS with pancakes, eggs and toast for breakfast.
You can get them at Perkins Rest. There are 3 on S.I. and one in East Harlem.
I live 40 miles south of Lamesa. Head south until you see the Caprock, the East side of those mountains are on the ranch. Ours start where the windmills stop.
A New Jersey transplant to Oklahoma is a good friend but really surprised me with her reference to tomato sauce as gravy. She had not adapted to the local custom that gravy is either white (cream gravy) or brown (meat drippings) but it is never RED. She contended that I needed to expand my thinking and that her grandmother’s “gravy” would change my mind.
Chicken fried steak is real good with fried okra and black-eyed peas. And cobbler for dessert. Yum.
You bet . . . and don’t forget the Texas toast. Been to Lamesa, Tx many times in the past, off old Highway 87. Wish I were close enough to attend this feast, sitting under the Mesquite trees. (Would want to sneak away for some slow cooked TX brisket too).
lol. I’m actually a yankee infiltrator supporting Bernie Sanders based on his good looks, the same with Warren :)
And there’s something about Hilary’s walk that drives me insane :)
Staten Island is very conservative. Like I said the other boroughs call us rednecks (and Italian slurs) especially when we wanted a racetrack.
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First of all, it is NOT steak in that sense of that word.
It is "steak" from a cut of beef usually associated with great flavor and low cost that has been cubed or tenderized and flattened thin. Served with a simple white flour gravy.
Many recipes are available on various Internet cooking sites. Great comfort food.
Italians call "spaghetti sauce" gravy.
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