Gravy

I'm going to do a gravy primer.

We ran out of gravy after turkey!!

There are a bunch of ways to make it.

1. after baking/roasting (poultry or a roast)......leave the fat (or at least some of it), and the liquid and all the browned goodies (fond) in the pan. Add water (though some people use milk), and heat it up on top of the stove and scrape those brown goodies into the broth. To thicken, just mix flour with COLD water, slowly add while the broth is boiling, until it is thick enough, season it.

2. make a roux, equal parts fat and flour, cook for a couple minutes until the flour is cooked, add that to a broth that has little to no oil in it, season it.

3. last resort gravy, clean the fat and bones from the turkey--put them in a pan and roast them with carrots, celery and onions until greasy and crispy. Add water, mix it around to get all the good flavor, strain out fat pieces, bones and vegetables and thicken with flour in cold water, season it.

Everything is better with gravy. And so is your waistline. :) Cheers, ~Feather

Margi--ha ha, you must stop making me look up words!!!!!!!! visperas.....seriously, I thought it might be an ingredient, and it turns out it's a description of 'the night before'.
I cannot teach my children/adults to cook with visperas, or, maybe I should. That would keep them busy.  7 tablespoons of visperas added to the usual mix.

Your gravy descriptions sound balanced with savory and a little acid--adding wine or lemon or vinegar. Very interesting.

Rod Franklin wrote: Roast beef gravy here always has a mere splash of vinegar added.

Since I have a pan of roasted turkey bones and skin, w/vegetables on the stove, I shall try it that way. I've never added an acid to gravy in the past. Something new to try.

Feather. Visperas translates to the day before however colloquially it means the parts of the bird u use for gravy, the organ meats, neck and heart etc. I honestly forgot the English word ! ha ha. Is there a word for these meat parts in English ?   Have great wkend and pleased u found ur cell in ur car. Mare.   

Hoser. Giblets. Thanks. Margi.