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[spacebabie]

I'm getting better in the kitchen.

Mostly my skills have been on the microwave, Hamburger Helper, and the family size dinners you stick in the oven level, and of course baking and making breakfast meals.

But now I'm trying different things. Three weeks ago I baked potatoes Alton Brown Style.

Two weeks ago I made fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, biscuits, and sauteed green beans. Two weeks ago I made tuna melts.

Last night I fried up a couple of cube steak, and caramelized some onions and asembled a steak burger with the cube steaks, onions and som A1 sauce on a poppy seed bun.

Someday I'm going to learn to make chicken fried steak for my husband. I'll just fry up the other cube steak and top it with onions and mushrooms. I may be born in Texas, but I can not stand chicken fried steak, or white gravy. I also hate collard and mustard greens and grits.

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[beesandbrews.livejournal.com]

Chicken fried steak is easy. Take about a cup of flour and season it with a teaspoon of season salt. Or salt and pepper plus a little cayenne and onion poweder. Put it all in a lunch bag. Shake well. Now take your cube steak and dip it in a couple of eggs and a little milk stirred up well. Then take the egg washed steaks, toss them in the lunch bag and shake until well coated. In the meantime, put a generous amount of oil in a frying pan big enough to hold the cube steaks. A half an inch or so should do, get it hot enough to sizzle when you add a drop of water and then carefully slide in your steaks. Cook until golden on a medium high heat and turn them once about midway thru.

White gravy - 1 tablespoon of butter and flour and one cup milk for each cup of gravy. Plus salt and pepper to taste.
Melt the butter over gentle flame. Add the flour and stir well until it's incoporated all the butter. Add the milk about 1/4 measure at a time stirring until it's smooth between additions of milk. Add salt and pepper (be generous with the pepper). It doesn't hurt to add a dash of Tabasco sauce or a sprinkle of Cayenne pepper to wake things up.

For sausage gravy to go with bisquits do as above but add ground breakfast sausage and heat through.

[spacebabie.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[beesandbrews.livejournal.com]

Any time!