Posted on 07/26/2022 7:09:58 AM PDT by mylife
My fiancée was texting one of her best friends the other night, who told her she’d recently made salisbury steak for dinner. Huh. Salisbury steak. I hadn’t thought of Salisbury steak in years, and the only time I’d really had it was from a frozen microwaveable tray when I was a kid. It didn’t even occur to me that people made Salisbury steak from scratch. But when you think about it, Salisbury steak is essentially just hamburger patties in brown gravy, sometimes with mushrooms. I thought, “Wait. Why am I not making this too?”
A few nights later I went to the store, grabbed some ground beef, some mushrooms, and a jar (yes, a jar) of brown gravy and slapped dinner together in under an hour. And guess what? It was freakin’ delicious.
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*** Salisbury steak was big when I was a little kid under the Carter administration, when inflation was at the levels we’re seeing again and real steaks were expensive. ***
Besides venison, doves, and wild turkeys, we ate 🐴 meat back then. Kinda of a sweet taste compared to beef.
Yeah...the book is great, the movie, on Netflix, sucks...go figure!
love it
“My mom used to make Swiss steak, with a thick, tomatoey sauce or gravy. Does anyone have a good recipe for that?”
There was a restaurant in a small town near here that made it similar to that. I think the base meat was actually a minute steak. Was my favorite meal and my favorite restaurant for a while there. 1980s timeframe.
Always tender and delicious. I don’t remember mashed potatoes. Probably home fries on the side.
No it was the professor
“Salisbury Steak”...wasn’t that a song by Peter Gabriel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OO2PuGz-H8
Do not google beef stroganoff with safe search off
I really enjoy THG.
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Brandon admin now offers us bugs or your next door neighbor to eat if you get tired of bugs.
Yes, the old Banquet Cookin’ Bags, a staple of my youth. Used to be ten for a buck on sale at Great Scot. Loved the turkey and gravy, over rice.
“Good meatballs have more than just ground beef and a few spices.”
A meatball parm is one of my go-tos on sandwich shop menus. For a while there was a local “pizza joint” that was taken over by the children of the original owner, and they did not know how to make a proper meatball. They were way better! Really meaty, instead of full of bread and eggs. I still like a good traditional meatball, but those MEATballs will always be on my mind for comparison.
I make it with French onion soup, bread crumbs, ground beef and an egg. Tastes great.
“OK, I’ll bite. What did he steal?”
The childhood of one of my professors:
Poor guy grew up in lower east side of Manhattan in the fifties. Their electrical power, from Edison Electric was DC. That meant no transformers for the the newfangled TVs.
We have a Lone Star near me. Steaks are getting kinda pricy, so now I’ll order the chopped steak, with their mushroom gravy and onions, a huge baked potato and a Cesar salad.
$12.50 vs $25 for the steak and it is delicious! Now my favorite at Lone Star.
I save so much I can have a few more tall draft beers while I’m there.
Got it, thanks!
Lol, if I ever cook with groundhog, you’ll know I’m truly desperate!
Never cared for it.. if you want to make a hamburger, put some cheese on it and put it on a bun, don’t drown in nasty brown gravy and try to tell me its some sort of steak.
Exactly, when I want a steak I get me some tube steaks.
If Bye-done and the RATs keep it up, and grocery stores start closing.....you'll thank me for this.
We eat less meat now so it’s not a big draw for us.
My wife and I are well into our 80’s, and we never bought the B$ about fats killing you, so we don’t load up on the statins and die from them.
We do eat less. What would have been basically a dinner in the past few years becomes dinner and lunch the next day or more.
Often my wife prepares a good size pyrex dish of really good Polenta. Then, a polenta serving will be topped with some type of meat and sauce. One day, the topping can be beef, another day chicken, another day ham/pork. Sometimes, there is leftover salmon or rock cod for the protein topping. We have some type of green or slaw to go with the above.
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