What food are you craving right now?

I was properly craving a swiss roll this week and some Colin the Caterpillar satisfied that urge.
Now I am craving my Mom's scalloped potatoes

Hmmm, I wonder what Cream of Wheat added to flour when making bread would do to it. Aside from it being healthier, I wonder how it would rise?

My mom made a really delicious shredded wheat bread, I've tried making it to no real success 

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Chicken fried steak

Chicken fried steak

  I haven't been thinking very much about chicken fried steak for the last 20 years, but was surprised lasty time I went home.  CFS was everywhere, and I liked it better than I remembered. 

It's not terribly hard to make.  My favorite recipe uses smashed-up saltines as the outer coating, after an inner flouring and egg wash. 

It's not terribly hard to make.  My favorite recipe uses smashed-up saltines as the outer coating, after an inner flouring and egg wash. 

   Can you post it please?  I want to make some of that gravy!

Well, there's Chicken-fried Steak and Country-fried Steak.  Here is a link to an authority for both that I think can give you a better recipe than what I do:

newcomer link: https://www.southernliving.com/chicken-fried-steak-7571195 [nonactive]

I make my cream gravy by using a couple of spoons of the drippings, and adding a bit of flour and black pepper and cooking it for a bit, then adding slowly half-and-half or heavy cream and also chicken bouillon (from those little cubes works fine).  I could not begin to tell you the actual proportions as it's completely reflex these days!  But if it seems very thin just wait, as when it cools a bit it thickens up nicely. Also, on the Southern Living recipe, it looks a  little bland.  You might want more pepper (etc.) in the coating mix.

I hope you find this useful.

Well, there's Chicken-fried Steak and Country-fried Steak.  Here is a link to an authority for both that I think can give you a better recipe than what I do:

https://www.southernliving.com/chicken-fried-steak-7571195

I make my cream gravy by using a couple of spoons of the drippings, and adding a bit of flour and black pepper and cooking it for a bit, then adding slowly half-and-half or heavy cream and also chicken bouillon (from those little cubes works fine).  I could not begin to tell you the actual proportions as it's completely reflex these days!  But if it seems very thin just wait, as when it cools a bit it thickens up nicely. Also, on the Southern Living recipe, it looks a  little bland.  You might want more pepper (etc.) in the coating mix.

I hope you find this useful.

  Unbelievable!  That looks really good but I'm not sure I'll be making it.  I can't imagine frying steaks in that much oil and then using the drippings to make gravy.  I'll just save it for my next trip back home and let someone else do all that.

I made chicken fried steak in the air fryer last week and it was pretty decent!

  Unbelievable!  That looks really good but I'm not sure I'll be making it.  I can't imagine frying steaks in that much oil and then using the drippings to make gravy.  I'll just save it for my next trip back home and let someone else do all that.

I take it you don't eat fish-and-chips? (It is a lot of oil, but if it's hot enough most of it stays in the pan, I believe.) Done correctly, there's nothing quite like a good chicken fried steak. Done badly, oy oy oy!

I've seen the Southern Living recipe before. That does look like it'd serve well in place of ExLax. I only use about two tablespoons of drippings and it makes a small pan of gravy. The crunchy bits that fall off the breading add flavor.  There's a gravy mix that is passable, the brand is Pioneer.  I keep one in my pantry for the days when I'm too lazy to make "real" gravy. (Like for biscuits and gravy, when I don't want to make sausage or bacon.) Not the world's best, but not bad.

As PB says, you could try an air fryer if you want to avoid the oil.