Where do you get the best biscuits and gravy?

I get mine at Podnah's Pit BBQ in Northeast Portland.

It's just a little mom an pop's joint. Mostly southern type food. Not the healthiest eating, but man is it good.

I've been a couple time to the place on the Hill near the CU campus and oh. My. God. Some of the best I've ever had.

On edit: I didn't mean to reply to your reply. It happened on accident, I swear!

If I'm ever in Boulder I will look up Dot's. :)

Dot's biscuits and redeye gravy in the late '70's when I lived in Boulder. Nothin' better.

If they're better than the biscuits and gravy they serve at Lucille's, they must be unbelievable. Guess I better check it out......

In fact, I have no idea where Lucille's is. I should be ashamed of myself, I know, I know. :cry:

First, let me get the spelling right: it's "Lucile's"; I slipped an extra "L" into it, previously.

The Lucile's in Boulder is at 2124 14th Street, in a big old house. If you go, go hungry, and if you go on a weekend, be prepared for a worthwhile wait for a table.

They have a website: luciles.com, so you can see what you've been depriving yourself of. The coffee is New Orleans-strong, the biscuits are massive, and Chef Mickey's Sausage Gravy is a religious experience. Enjoy.....

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i'll have to keep that in mind next time i'm out there.

that sounds wonderful

no idea when i'll make it out there next, but i will take you up on that offer

I make the best biscuits and gravy ever. :9

The secret: Worcestershire sauce and finely diced onions.

....along with some Better Than Bouillon beef base and a handful of masa flour. The secret ingredients.

2nd best- my kitchen.
3rd- incredible hole in the wall named City Cafe in Northport, AL

Strangely enough, I have a shot of them online.

and now seem to be doing more business than ever.

On nice days, their large patio is always packed.

The biscuits and gravy at Paradox were really good, too. Though there my first choice would be the potatoes, whatever they spice them with is addicting enough it should be illegal.

Portland is just awash in good vegan food, ya lucky bastards.

and some country (what is considered 'milk' gravy, maybe some sausage bits, or Smokey Links if you wanna go Big Time!!) gravy that's it, at home of course :9 which affords the home-brewed Irish Coffee very nicely :thumbsup:

other half with grave.

I missed out on the Irish Coffee, though.

The Oakview Diner and Truckstop in beautiful Rockford, IL. Since then, probably either Comet in Milwaukee, WI or Spring Garden restaurant in Rockford. I think the Palomino Bar in Milwaukee will let you get vegetarian gravy as a side with anything, even their fried pickles (their motto is, "if it's good, it's better fried")

Now I'm hungry and I am fasting for medical tests until 9:00 am.

Overall, probably at Oktoberain and ThinkBlue1966's house. :9

how to make it at home, courtesy of the ol' Frugal Gourmet.

But, if I don't have the ambition (or time) to make scratch biscuits, Pillsbury Grands are a worthy base for my sausage gravy. :P

"the stabLes" in hadLey, ma.

and since i tried it, i have to say there.

It's unbelievable. It's like, there are people that have never had Chicken Fried Steak! I feel sorry for these people.
Duckie

I did try biscuits and gravy when my ex made them. He had them on a road trip and decided he liked them so much he would learn how to make them. It wasn't bad.

I have to say I prefer New England food. Probably because I was born and raised here. I'm just not big on southern or bqq or southwest types of cooking. I will eat it if I am at someones house, but I wouldn't search it out.

I didn't realize that was possible.
It's steak that has been flattened by a mallet, breaded and fried. Served with potatoes and tons of white gravy.
Duckie

Seriously? deep fried? With white gravy?

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

It is seriously wonderful.
Duckie

Okay, I am going to look up a recipe and make it for my son (he is 15 and will literally eat anything). Any advice on cooking it is welcome!

Serve with biscuits or cornbread, fresh green beans and a yellow squash casserrole (with cheese). Homemade cole slaw and pickles are to be served on the side. Serve with freshly made iced tea with lemon (sweetened is traditional). Dessert would be a blackberry or peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream.

Oh yeah, eat in the dining room using your best china and glassware on a Sunday afternoon! :)

Links to recipes:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Southern-Living-magazines-Chicken-Fried-Steak/Detail.aspx

think of that will be accessible up there and have this dish on the menu. Mashed potatoes and green beans on the side are a must.

Threadgill's in Texas swears by wet-dry-wet coating method, while most every other recipe I've seen does dry-wet-dry coating.
Threadgill's recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_14346,00.html
Tyler Florence's recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_28351,00.html

Cookin' up the green beans with bits of pork/ham and onions is a good idea, too.

Chicken fried steak, biscuits and gravy, and fried pickles are the best reasons we have for not selling the South to a foreign investment consortium!

Are you people insane?

:hide:

We Texans'll fry anything! Pickles, hot dogs, Oreos, ice cream....

It's an experimental thang. You Yankees wouldn't understand. ;-)

FWIW, reprehensor came from Alberta, and also had no idea what chicken-fried steak was when he moved down. It was quite humorous seeing his reaction when I explained it to him.

Texas scares me...... bushies and all....

hehe j/k

Sounds like I should take a food tasting trip sometime.

Hang out with some DUers, and you'll get a feeling of how things USED to be, when it was a blue state. And the Texas forum is one of the most active forums on DU. Activists in Texas are ballsy, outspoken and awesome (see Ann Richards, Molly Ivins, Jim Hightower, etc)

Besides. You cannot GET better Mexican food anywhere. I have to admit, it's only been 6 weeks and I AM homesick.

and completely ignore Louisiana cuisine... I'll take properly prepared seafood, jambalaya, gumbo, etc... over chicken fried steak any day (though I do like a CFS every now and again).

Honestly, I thought chicken fried steak was more of a Texas (and/or perhaps a midwest) thing than a "southern" thing. Yeah, I know- Texas is in the south, but the food lines put it more to the west...

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It's a little different gravy and cooking method for the steak.

link to a link about the difference between chicken fried and country fired steak:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7032582&mesg_id=7034431

:) It is so damn good!

We have a Southern variation called country fried steak. What's the difference between chicken and country?:

I'm going to try cooking some of this tommorrow night.

nor have I ever had Chicken Fried Steak.

Although I've spent more than my fair share of time in the south, I was never "in the mood" for that kind of food when I was at a restaurant that might have offered it up. I always seem to gravitate towards greens or ribs or cajun or mexican when I go south. Biscuits and gravy just looks so, so, heavy and I dunno - are they bland? They just don't look as though they have enough "kick" for my tastebuds.

Anyone know where to get a good plate of biscuits and gravy or chicken fried steak in the western suburbs of Chicago, hell - I'll even drive into the city if anyone has a good rec - my curiosity is piqued now.

I'm going to bookmark this thread so I can find a place for this kind of food next time I make a trip south.

THey have a fabulous Chicken Fry. As for Biscuits and gravy, if it's bland, someone made it wrong. It should be peppery, and in most cases, the gravy should include sausage for an extra bit of flavor.
Duckie

I make them myself :)

With over easy eggs, hash browns and scrapple.....

:shrug:


It's funny how geograpically aligned the answers are. Here in the South, I'm like, "doesn't everyone serve biscuits and gravy?"

And then you've got folks from Massachusetts that have never had them.

and i'm always on the lookout for a good place to get them.

i usually have to make them myself the morning after chicken fried steak.

i haven't found great biscuits and gravy here in the bay area. -- they don't understand it.

the other things i'm always in search of and will drive miles and miles for are -- ceasar salad, chinese chicken salad -- and an old fashioned cobb salad.

making me hungry!

I want! :bounce:

Don't even try to lie.

I have never found them anywhere that are as good as those Granny taught me to cook.

She got her recipes from my Nana (her mom and my grandmother) who was an incredible Western NC mountain woman cook! It's not that healhty but every once in a while it's so good!
:)

There are some very good local restaurants and diners in my area that make traditional Southern biscuits and gravy. This dish is especially popular with deer hunters here in NE GA. They stop for coffee and biscuits with gravy (sawmill) at local rural establishments after a very early morning weekend deer hunting trips.

at the Harbor Pub in Waikiki, within shouting distance of the Ala Wai Boat Harbor, from whence the S.S. Minnow departed on the legendary three-hour tour.

I would imagine that any number of establishments near the military bases serve it as well (that's how we get decent BBQ hereabouts).

Actually, my sister has an awesome recipe for it. I've had it at restaurants, and it doesn't even come close to hers

And dayum, I think I'll make some tomorrow morning!

she makes the best homemade biscuits and gravy. "cathead biscuits" are the best!

Coach's in Green Valley AZ. Thick country gravy w/sausage bits/grease, lovely light biscuits... half order about $2.00! Great lil brekky!

Also with some migas and Chicken Fried Steak. Mmmmmmm!!!!

BTW, what the hell is scrapple? I saw that upthread. Not an appetizing name . . .

Legendary restaurant in Sullivan, MO. Great home cooked food, esp. fried catfish.

Day-um! These are somma the meanest, gnarliest, hardest little sorry-ass pretender biscuits I've ever seen in my LIFE! I swear to god, I've had better biscuits in MAINE-fer-crissake than here in beautiful ABQ.

lookls like someone barfed on your bread :puke:

:hi:

Sheesh, some of us Yankees love biscuits and gravy and can't always make it south to get the good stuff.

both the scratch biscuit recipe and the gravy recipe are in "The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American" - you can pick up a used paperback copy incredibly cheap. The book is out of print.

I know this sounds gross, but I actually like mine with a drizzle of maple syrup.

:hi:

I drizzle maple syrup on hot crisp bacon. :D
But my homemade biscuits and gravy I keep on the proper side of savory. The weather is Almost close to cold enough to make that some fine Sunday morning soon. Yum!

I love their Biscuits 'n Gravy.

RIP

She made the absolute best biscuits and sausage gravy ever on this planet.

Don't know too much about the east side.

made from scratch biscuits wit bacon gravy (none of this sausage ravy or redye gravy crap}

mmmmmmmm! I think I'll go make some now!

My biscuit and gravy days are long gone.

I live in Illinois and these foods were always just a part of life (a good part!)

Now something that might be regional is a Haystack. Think of a mound of grilled hash browns with a sausage patty with melted cheese laying on top and sausage gravy over it all...

It is as close to heaven on a plate as it gets. Its long on fats, carbs and calories, but one of the biggest joys in life. I get misty eyed just remembering!

As for chicken fried steak, I have to to say it is still one of my guilty pleasures. Give me a plate with CFS, real mashed potatoes and white gravy and I just might eat until I bust--especially if you make some green beans with onion and bacon as a side.

You can keep that Sweet Tea however. It might be the house wine of the south, but that is one thing I never developed a taste for. If I can have a bottle of Miller High Life instead with that plate I promise I'll die a happy woman!

I swear, this is all comfort food to me, and just thinking about it makes me feel good!


Laura

Had it for the first time a few years back on a trip to California - at a crappy motel breakfast buffet. But they were great. Man, I'd love to try some really GOOD biscuits and gravy!