Gravy

That's just a version of aglio y olio. I'd toss in some red pepper flakes and a few anchovy fillets.

"Cook's Illustrated" had a "Gravy from Almost Nothing" recipe. Basically, take carrots, celery and onions, chop them up fine, carmelize them in butter, toss in some flour and cook, then add broth (your choice, I suppose) and seasonings (your choice, I suppose), and there you are. Anything from the bottom of a roasting pan obviously would make it better, but that's more than almost nothing.

Lets say a steak is being cooked on a George Forman grill.

Does anyone think it would be safe to make a gravy from the drippings it gives off even though it's collecting outside of the heat source?

Im sure most of you from the south have had chocolate gravy from time to time, but I suspect many people (mostly them northerners) have never heard of it. If you have never tried it find a good reicpe and smother a homemade biscuit in it. It's pretty darn good.

GordenW, the gravy from almost nothing sounds a lot like what I always knew as "motherless gravy", I guess since there was no meat. Use bacon grease and flour to make a roux. Add onions,beef broth and salt and pepper. Not bad.

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Originally posted by tiggs

Lets say a steak is being cooked on a George Forman grill.

Does anyone think it would be safe to make a gravy from the drippings it gives off even though it's collecting outside of the heat source?

Sure.

Apparently I missed this one so I'll add my two cents.. My father's family was from Oklahoma, and THE gravy was cream gravy..whether made from fried chicken drippings, pork chop drippings, sausage or bacon drippings it was ALWAYS cream gravy.. when ever we had holidays at the other side of the family I was exposed to turkey gravy, but I always considered it to be a minor condiment. It took me years to develop just the right technique to get that perfect taste I remembered.. I would eat it with anything..straight if I had to..white bread if there were no biscuits, dumped over fried chicken cold or hot.. I have yet to find its equal in any restaurant..

I just had the last of the turkey with dressing and drowned it in the last of the gravy. Super dinner. Mamaw Smith made the killer giblet gravy with onions and celery.

I agree with one of the posters above. I could consume it by itself.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

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Originally posted by Sundancer7

I just had the last of the turkey with dressing and drowned it in the last of the gravy. Super dinner.

My turkey gravy this year was absolutely yummy. I didn't really do much different (made a roux with butter, bacon grease, and flour, then whisked in homemade turkey stock), but when I tasted it, it was one of those magical moments. Sometimes that just happens.

My cornbread & pecan dressing turned out great, too, and many of my post-Thanksgiving meals have been a bowl of dressing and gravy.

As far as I'm concerned, screw the turkey (except for leftover turkey sandwiches) and most of the other stuff. I could just sit down in the middle of the floor with some dressing and gravy and be happy. Oh, I also like some homemade cranberry sauce on the side.

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Originally posted by Bushie

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Originally posted by Sundancer7

I just had the last of the turkey with dressing and drowned it in the last of the gravy. Super dinner.

My turkey gravy this year was absolutely yummy. I didn't really do much different (made a roux with butter, bacon grease, and flour, then whisked in homemade turkey stock), but when I tasted it, it was one of those magical moments. Sometimes that just happens.

My cornbread & pecan dressing turned out great, too, and many of my post-Thanksgiving meals have been a bowl of dressing and gravy.

As far as I'm concerned, screw the turkey (except for leftover turkey sandwiches) and most of the other stuff. I could just sit down in the middle of the floor with some dressing and gravy and be happy. Oh, I also like some homemade cranberry sauce on the side.

Amen to "screw the turkey".. I sat down with a NY Strip, sweet potato fries and guess what else..
Dressing with gravy, and cranberry sauce----ha ha..
Some traditions you just dont mess with!
Couldnt totally dis the Turkey day fixin's... But I did have to buy the gravy.. I just doctored it up..

Tara