Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Over the weekend we were entertaining some out-of-town family, so I decided to whip up some chicken fried steak (or chicken fried chicken for our one non-beef eater) for breakfast to mark to occasion.  I’ve been experimenting with CFS for a while, and it’s been getting progressively (IMHO) better.  Having never seen a CFS until I went to college, I have some catching up to do.  I got some pretty decent quality cube steak, and coated them with flour-then-egg-then-flour, where the flour had some salt, pepper, and (my favorite) a little poultry seasoning added.  Fried up in very hot canola oil and kept warm in a low oven, they were ready and waiting for the sausage gravy.  I tried some Jimmy Dean “bold” sausage for the gravy, which was pretty darn good.  In a perfect world, I prefer the fantasic bulk sausage from New Seasons, but you make do with what you have (in Sisters, OR).  I used whole milk for the gravy (might as well go all out) and again added a touch of poultry seasoning.  Plain rubbed sage works great too.  The whole thing worked out pretty well.  And since we’d polished off quite a helping of biscuits and gravy and poached eggs the morning before, I was pretty sure it would be a crowd pleaser.  :-)