Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and gravy. Mmmm good.

[Fuzz]

Just made it and consumed mass quantities. Haven't had that in a long, long time.

[ashling]

1. Had that for Dinner today

(some of ya'll call it lunch) with corn on the cob. mmmm,mmmmmmmm,good!

However, last time I saw my doctor, he was adamant that I get more blood into my cholesterol system. We are not on speaking terms at the time.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

3. I have the same problem

Unfortunately I don't love broccoli and cabbage the way I love chicken fried steak/chicken/whatever!

[ashling]

26. I love brocolli, too

unfortunately I don't eat enough of it,

on edit: but the reason I am not on speaking terms with my doctor is that I don't have health insurance :shrug:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

2. Oh yummy

That sounds so freaking good.

[AirmensMom]

4. YUMMY!

I want some now! :9

[distantearlywarning]

5. You are lucky! That is my favorite dinner.

Especially with a side of corn on the cob with butter. Mmmm mmm! My waistline is adversely affected by chicken fried steak, however, so I have to eat things like broccoli for dinner instead. :-(

[GOPisEvil]

6. Mmmmmm...mmmmmmm...heart attack on a plate.

:9

[Canadian Socialist]

7. What is chicken fried steak?

Sounds good, regardless.

[hippywife]

8. Don't feel bad...

I grew up in the north and never heard of it either til I moved to Oklahoma. It's everywhere down here. It's a ground beef patty or thin tenderized piece of steak that has been breaded and fried like chicken. And then it is smothered with a white, flour gravy.

On edit: Yuck! And no offense intended toward the original poster. It's definitely an acquired taste.

[Canadian Socialist]

9. So it is basically a "beef cutlet"?

We get those up here. i.e. Chicken Cutlet is the parts you don't normally eat, all ground up and then battered and fried. I agree, yuck. Another thing... I don't get grits. What are they? The one and only time I saw them (on a cruise in the Caribbean), I thought they were cream of wheat. Wanted to add milk and sugar. Must be some sort of Canadian thing (the adding of milk & sugar to unknown food substances, I mean).

[GOPisEvil]

10. Chicken fried steak is served with cream gravy though.

That's the difference. And chicken friend steak is usually a piece of round, not ground meat.

Grits are the same thing as polenta. Just put butter on 'em. :9

[Canadian Socialist]

11. What the hell is polenta?

I'm a white Scot-Canadian. We only do food groups based on oatmeal.

[GOPisEvil]

12. Corn meal.

I sentence you to watch the Food Network for 24 hours. :D

[Canadian Socialist]

16. I don't have a TV

gave it up because it was too annoying and expensive. So I get all my info etc. from the internet and Bittorrents.

[GOPisEvil]

18. Well...so much for that.

www.foodtv.com

:)

[Canadian Socialist]

19. I'm not clicking there!

That is to be drawn into an evil world of consumerism (American Style). Get thee behind me Satan!!!!!

Okay, I'll click tomorrow. Just not today.

[GOPisEvil]

20. They actually have a Canadian FoodTV as well.

I'm sure they have a website of their own.

[Canadian Socialist]

23. I may have misled you

I don't cook, unless it involves a toaster oven and a microwave. When I'm feeling wild & crazy I throw in the wok. Okay, occasionally, I will boil something on the stove. But, no chopping of the veg. I hate that.

[Arkana]

13. Polenta's nasty.

It tastes (and looks) like baby food.

[GOPisEvil]

14. I've made it myself, and it's quite good.

It's basically a blank canvas. Flavor it with things you like.

[hippywife]

17. Only nasty if one doesn't know

how to prepare or serve it. It's kind of the same concept as using tofu. By itself, it ain't so much but prepare and serve it with appropriate accompaniment, it can be very good.

[hippywife]

15. I do like grits and

I do eat them the way you suggest. Down here it's what's known as eating them "northern." :)

Edited to add: and when they tell you that you eat them northern, imagine it being said in Scarlett O'Hara accent and attitude. LOL

[ashling]

31. Grits are great with

butter and sugar. I like to mix them with over easy eggs.

[hippywife]

33. Okay...

ya lost me on the mixing thing but to each his/her own tastes. Our tastebuds are apparently as diverse as we are. :hi:

[ashling]

36. I don't really "mix" them,

but ocassionally the are gently coaxed into running together on the plate (if the grits are thick enough - by the way, if you order grits and they come in a bowl and are real soupy, SAND 'EM BACK!)

[ashling]

30. Chicken Fried Steak

is commonly made with thin round steak, but some of the best I have had is made with thicker tenderized pieces.

[TreasonousBastard]

43. The truth about grits...

grits is simply hominy, which is the processed meat of the corn kernel with that nasty "shell" removed. Hominy is produced by soaking the corn guts in lye. Corn meal is something entirely different, and is actually edible.

One properly eats grits soaked in bacon drippings or red-eye gravy, depending on whether they are for breakfast or dinner. Bacon drippings should be obvious, but red-eye gravy be the drippings from a baked ham. Not much different from the bacon drippings when you think about it.

There are two conflicting stories about the origin of grits. One says that it is related to ther invention of popcorn, which, as everyone knows, was the result of a Texas cook getting drunk on a cattle drive in the midst of an incredibly hot summer. He left the corn in a copper pot, and the pot got so hot, the corn dried out and popped.

Everyone loved the popcorn, but with the bad dental hygiene of the time, another way to get that white stuff out of the corn had to be developed so they wouldn't break their teeth on unpopped kernals. Eventually, it was discovered that soaking the corn in lye would result in a pure, white, tasteless mass similar to tofu but not quite as disgusting.

The other story is that a Mississippi plantation owner was looking for a way to murder his wife without leaving evidence. He thought that dumping lye in the cornmeal would work, but she gobbled it up and lived for another 20 years, gaining enormous amounts of weight and spreading the story of her new favorite food.

[SoCalDem]

25. NO NO NO NO NONONONONON..never GROUND BEEF

It's a big ole hunk of round steak, tenderized...breaded and fried...served with mashed potatoes & cream gravy :)

[ashling]

32. was that picture taken, perchance,

at Brown Sugars out near Greenspoint in North Houston? Sure makes me think of that place, Haven't been there in years but their chicken fried steak and Peach cobbler is something one doesn't forget!

[SoCalDem]

39. I don't think so.. I found it online..There used to be a fantastic place

in my hometown.. Betty's Fried Chicken, but the steak was the best.. It was so huge that two could share one meal and there would still be left overs to take home.. I visited my hometown when my mother died, and that place was closed.. I guess the grown children wanted the money, and it was on very valuable real estate.

[Fuzz]

21. Well, I'm in NJ, and this is the way I do it.

I used a cheap piece of steak, not one that would be great if I just grilled or broiled it.

I pound it thin, season it. Then dredge in flour seasoned with salt, pepper, paprika, hot pepper, cumin, onion and garlic powder. Then in beaten egg, then back in the flour. Then I brown it in a pan of hot oil on both sides, just until golden, drain on paper towels, keep warm. Get rid of most of the oil, then saute chopped onions until golden, throw in a tablespoon or so of the flour mixture, make a quick roue, then throw in some of the seasoning mixture, then some, ahem, cream, whisk until thick. And that's your gravy.

Serve with mashed potatoes and have your cardiologist's number handy.

[ashling]

28. You might know it as

"country fried steak." Of course that name would be incorrect, its

CHICKEN FRIED STEAK!

[tyedyeto]

41. I worked in a restaurant one time that had to change the name

to Country Fried Steak. We had so many tourists who actually thought they were ordering CHICKEN!!!

Boggles the mind!!

Edit for typo

[johnnie]

22. Sounds good

I haven't made that in a while. It's funny that it is always looked at as a southern dish because I have had it since I was a kid.

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. I had all veggies tonight - corn on cob, shrooms, red pepper,

zucchini, all grilled. Yummy!! (oh, and a few leftover shrimp I bbq-ed earlier).

Goddamn, I love chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes.

And nice thing is, even the shittiest shithole dive diner in the shittiest shithole towns will always serve incredible chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and gravy.

[Spacemom]

27. Wow

It must be the night for it. We had the same thing, along with green beans and corn bread. :9

[Z_I_Peevey]

29. I really hate to admit this,

but I think chicken fried steak is best with the processed, unnatural pepper gravy made from a mix. The kind Dairy Queen serves with steak fingers. I'm such a low-rent gal.

Real mashed potatoes, though. Along with either (a) overcooked corn drowning in butter, or (b) overcooked green beans cooked with bacon. And a big ole school cafeteria roll.

Chocolate meringue pie for dessert. Then fasting for a week.

[ashling]

35. Sorry, but I have to insist

on fresh Peach Cobbler (preferably from Hill Country Peaches) for desert.

If that is unavailable, I will have (after I break down and cry) a slice of lemon merangue pie, and not that crap from a can ( a la Clint Eastwood in Million Dollar Baby)

[yellowdogintexas]

38. I have decided that the German immigrants to Texas and environs

invented Chicken Fried Steak as a replacement for Wiener Schnitzel. Out on the cattle trail, tough beef would be a lot more available than tender veal cutlets.

The basic preparation is very similar.

And the real gravy that is made with the pan drippings beats hell out of the evelope kind, if it is made properly.

I define country fried steak as steak floured and browned then add liquid and let it simmer in its own juices and it sort of makes its own brown gravy.

Chicken fried is actually fried in deep fat, either in skillet (best way) or a deep fryer, like fried chicken..hence the name. Chicken fried steak will be much crisper than country fried.

Both are an excellent way to use a tough cut of bottom round, as is the tomato sauce variation "Swiss Steak" (don't know why it is called that but it is)

[Redstone]

34. And I bet you feel REALLY good after doing that.

You just gotta cut loose once in a while, cholesterol warnings be damned. Life isn't worth living if you don't have some fun while you're living it.

Redstone

[yellowdogintexas]

37. turkey breast, steamed brussel sprouts, steamed corn on the cob

salad.

Delicious dinner and Weight Watchers correct at around 7 points.

[tyedyeto]

40. One of my favorite 'comfort' foods.

I think it's time I made it again!!!!! Yuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[clyrc]

42. whimper!

I love chicken fried steak, but I can't get it anywhere where I live and even the cuts of meat I can find aren't right for this dish. I had some this summer when I visited my paretns in Tulsa, but that seems like along time ago right now!