And I would say, technically it is a “shallow fry” in a tall brimmed skillet, much the same way, and much the same amount of oil one woukd use in frying chicken, fritters, potato pancakes, breaded fish. Many restaurants, however will use. A deep fat fryer, for convienence and volume. But a real homemadeChicken Fried Steak is made to order on the stove top with three fingers oil, and gravy made with same deepfried breading cracklin’s (little secret, that cracklin’ and grease sludge was the secret to The Colonel’s Gravy, back in the day.)
That’s how the wife does it.
Isn’t it named for the eggs in the wrapper dough?
In response to that, the age-old question is “If vegetarians eat vegetables, what to humanitarians eat???”
Nor is dry wine at all dry - it’s rather liquidy, actually.
Of course, sometimes the gravy will be made with breakfast sausage and its drippings, the same way you would make it for biscuits & gravy. I think this variant probably originated at diners that serve both dishes, because this way they wouldn’t have to have two separate batches of gravy, one with sausage and one without. If you’re eating CFS for breakfast, with eggs and hashbrowns and such, sausage gravy is a nice touch (and I like to throw some on the hashbrowns as well along with shredded cheddar and grilled onions), but if you’re serving it for dinner, with salad and a baked potato or mac & cheese or some other side starch, then the meatless version of the gravy works better IMO.
Ya know, i hear the name comes from the Original, when they were rolled in egg crepes. Kind of like how manigott has changed into flour roll from egg crepe roll.
I wonder why it was not called Fried Chicken Steak. Maybe people would think it’s chicken meat instead of beef. Strangely, that’s what the current name sort-of gives off.
Hence my original confusion.
That’s debatable.
Although, despite living in Rochester for an entire geologic era, I never visited Nick Tahou’s, and never had a garbage plate. But I’ve heard plenty about it…
I would love to try some 30 year old cheddar. I haven’t been able to find any locally, and need to see if there’s some place I can buy it online.
Where do you live? I might be able to point you to a source not too far from you, if you’re in the midwest.
It’s unlikely you’ll find a 30 year old sample, they don’t come along often. Hook’s Cheese of Mineral Point WI is offering some 20 year old stuff, but it’s first come, first serve. Cedar Valley in Random Lake WI currently has 18 year old for sale, and I’ve seen 23 year old specimens there in the past too. They do ship their products via UPS 2nd day air. Wisconsin Cheese Mart in Milwaukee has 17 year old specimens
Many cheese places don’t ship their products in the summer, as they worry about it getting stuck in a 140 degree truck for days, which will overcome even the best insulation at times.
The juxtaposition of these two clauses amuses me.
Unfortunately, I’m no longer in the Midwest; when I retired I moved from Chicago to Chapel Hill NC, so I lost access to all the great cheese stores in Wisconsin. I do fly up to Chicago a few times a year, but when I do there’s still the problem of getting to Wisconsin.
I certainly understand the problem of summer shipping of perishables. I periodically order from Nuts .com and during the summer they charge extra for cold-pack shipping if they feel it’s necessary.
And something I read today. Sugar Plums are not plums.
Did not know that. Not sure I’ve ever seen an actual sugar plum.
I’ve never seen a sugar plum ever.
I’ve been eating something called Garbage Eggs for years. I don’t think the name came from Rochester. It’s basically an omelet or hopple popple made with leftovers.
They may have been originally. Sugar Plums started out as candied fruit, and may well have But it got away from that pretty quick
Yeah, not at all similar.
But garbage plates by any other name (the original is trademarked) are everywhere in the area and there are a zillion variations, including, somehow, vegetarian.
CFS is an adverbial adjective. (understood:Beef) Steak prepared like Fried Chicken. That Easy. There are no chicken steaks, net wahr?