Posted on 04/23/2023 6:27:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It’s dinner time and that just makes me hungrier
Rice and gravy, biscuits and gravy with chicken livers, red eye gravy with biscuits, giblets gravy. I could do this all day....
2,2 and 2. ...
2 teaspoons of bacon grease. 2 tablespoons of flour. 2 cups of milk. Gravy.
My Pleasant Grove granny taught me this.
I was a summer Grove rat. (SE Dallas county)
All the gravies I know of are either beige or some shade of brown. Apparently, Italian Gravy is red and something most of us would simply call Pasta Sauce or Spaghetti Sauce.
Lesson learnt.
What are you having?
Sunday gravy is a tomato-based sauce with meats, called that because grandma would make it Sunday afternoon.
Red eye is coffee gravy. Coffee instead of milk. Chicory is best.
This easter I didn’t give my grandkids candy for Easter. I gave them a big pot of meatballs and Bolognese sauce. I had made 4 dozen meatballs and 2 pots of sauce and they were gone in 3 days.
I grew up in an Italian immigrant family.
It was an awesome, awesome experience.
In my home, English and the Italian Avellinese and Sicilian dialects were spoken.
The food, the food. Kids at school wanted to buy my lunches. Meatball and bracciole sandwiches on Scala bread. Eggs fried with peppers and onion.
We had Sunday gravy, Wednesday gravy,Thursday gravy. Friday, we had fishballs, lobster or squid in gravy, or broiled fish. My grandfather and his brothers were fishermen.
Saturday night, it was broiled steak.
There was home made pizza, bread, and for holidays, home made ravioli, fettuccine, and Cavatelli.
It was the best.
I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
My father’s father immigrated from Italy when a young man. They are spaghetti with spaghetti sauce and meatballs to us. Pasta wasn’t even a word I heard growing up. I never heard it called gravy inside our family and only found out a decade or so ago that some people in New England call it gravy. To me, gravy will always be flour and meat drippings.
Okay, just learned that calling it gravy is not an Italian tradition, it’s an Italian-American tradition for some. Italians came over and were trying to assimilate quickly and the word gravy involved meat and sauce, so some opted to use gravy thinking it was more American. I know my grandfather told my father something like, you’re in America, you speaka da English. His accent never disappeared, but he spoke English and made sure his pack of children did too.
Fried chicken
Gravy is brown and goes on meat. You put sauce on spaghetti. And I’m Italian.
I remember the Grove well
Gravy and clam chowder do NOT have tomato in them. Tomatoes are anti-American.
Just made up some pasta and sauce for the week’s lunches
Wonderful memories. More often than Sundays, most of our family dinners involved a pot of gravy with meatballs or sausage.
So you didn’t hide the meatballs and make them hunt for them?
So you didn’t hide the meatballs and make them hunt for them?
Peppers-and-egg sandwiches are among my favorites, especially with melted provolone on top with a slice of tomato. I made sure my children grew up eating Italian food, but they did not learn to enjoy the variety that I grew up with. When I was a kid, our family ran a bar & grille that served Italian meals, and people would come from miles around to eat there.
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