learned something today

[rondog]

So, I learnt something today......

I tried this crockpot venison roast recipe, came out delicious! But the gravy was a little too thin for my liking. Had no cornstarch, wife said "pour all the gravy into a pan and get it boiling, mix flour and water into a paste, add to gravy to thicken it".

OK. I git after it.

Gravy's a-boilin', I mix up the flour and water. Looks kinda thin, not as "paste-y" as the wife's.....

Stir it in the boilin' gravy. Hmmm. Doesn't look to be thickening up much.

Mix up some more paste, use a little more flour this time. More is better, right? Still looks kinda thin.....

Stir it in, hmmmm. Not thickening yet?

Mix up more paste, use enough flour this time to bake a freakin' cake with. Stir it in.

Peer in the pan, no joy. No thickee. [Shock] Hmmm. Maybe it needs to cool down to thicken.....

Pour the gravy back into the crockpot with the meat and veggies, and into the fridge.

Come tonight, getting my lunch ready to take to work, shovel out a big load of yumminess into a container for my lunch box. Dang gravy's still pretty thin, WTH?

Gets to be lunchtime, I nuke my container and sit down to enjoy my lovely venison roast. Gravy still isn't thick, but now it sure seems to be powerful SWEET. [panic] Hmmm.

Lesson learnt - when you get the flour container out of the cupboard, make sure it's actually FLOUR and not POWDERED SUGAR!!!! [facepalm] Gravy flavored syrup kinda sucks. Throwing away all that roast and veggies sucks even more. [Mad] Thank God I have one more roast left and all the other fixin's too.

[Bailey Guns]

Pour the gravy over pancakes for breakfast!

Funny story!

[Colorado Osprey]

Rinse off the veggies and meat and put back in the crock or oven to heat back up with some bullion or au juis .... ta da! fixed it!

[rondog]

Rinse off the veggies and meat and put back in the crock or oven to heat back up with some bullion or au juis .... ta da! fixed it!
Um, no. It's permanently tainted. I'll make more.

[glenncal1]

Ron- every great chef has the occassional failure, give the meat to the dog.

[Gman]

Sounds similar to the dangers of keeping salt and sugar in similar containers. That sucks that the roast is messed up, but shhhtuff happens.

[jhirsh5280]

Use equal parts butter and flour to make a roux to thicken just about anything. Melt butter in a pan then add the flour and stir with a whisk until the roux turned golden brown. Add the roux to the gravy or gravy to the roux and boom! You might be on to something though with the powdered sugar! Ive always wondered who was the first one to figure things out thinking most of time they were mistakes.

[Lars]

I needed a good laugh this morning, thanks for that. Better luck with the next one.

[Rucker61]

Thanks for the laugh.

[ACE2GOOD]

Thanks for the morning laugh. If that Venison recipe is that good you should post it up so we can all try it out.....minus the powdered sugar!

[Delfuego]

[LOL]Better than accidentally adding salt!
Next time try corn starch and cold water, mix it up and stir it in :D

[sniper7]

Funny story!

[jerrymrc]

We need to get you some training son. Some things do look alike (salt-sugar) but mistaking powered sugar for flour........ Powered sugar for cornstarch I would go for especially for those that are challenged in the vision dept.[Flower]

But ya did make mine and the wife's day.[Beer]

[TFOGGER]

This is exactly why the cinnamon sugar and the onion salt are now in two totally different shaped bottles at our house...

[Great-Kazoo]

I can see that happening. WHY THE HELL ISN'T THIS GETTING THICKER???

IF you ever run out of cornstarch or flour and need to thicken a crock pot dinner up . Throw some instant mashed potato's in there.


On a side note.

Defrosted some cod fillets (one time) thought a lemon juice marinade would perk them up. UNFORTUNATELY marinating fish means minutes in the marinade TOPS. I let this sit an hour[ish], removed from liquid went to throw on the grill. Had 4 pieces of what turned out to be (to this day) known as Squish. A gelatinous pile of who knows what. Even worse we had people over for dinner [fail]

[rondog]

Thanks for the morning laugh. If that Venison recipe is that good you should post it up so we can all try it out.....minus the powdered sugar!
Basically-

2 to 2.5 lb venison roast in crock pot
one pkg Lipton onion soup mix, dry
one can Cream of Mushroom soup
one can beef broth
one onion, peeled and sliced into 1/4" rings
two potatoes, skin on, scrubbed and diced into 3/4" - 1" pieces
handful of fresh mushrooms, washed and sliced
couple stalks of celery, sliced
couple of large garlic cloves, finely chopped
couple handfuls of frozen corn
whatever else you wanna toss in, maybe lemon/pepper seasoning, coarse ground black pepper, some green beans, whatever.
Cook. I put it on high to break the meat down as much as possible so I can chew/digest it better.

I need some more venison now, just about out of critter. Been eating good off that ol' gal for a long time!

[rondog]

Defrosted some cod fillets (one time) thought a lemon juice marinade would perk them up. UNFORTUNATELY marinating fish means minutes in the marinade TOPS. I let this sit an hour[ish], removed from liquid went to throw on the grill. Had 4 pieces of what turned out to be (to this day) known as Squish. A gelatinous pile of who knows what.

Ew. I think I've done this too. Sounds disturbingly familiar.

[Irving]

Put it on Craigslist.

[Mazin]

Damn man I'm sorry about your roast, but thanks for the chuckle!

[KS63]

Gravy Popsicles?

[TheGrey]

Heeeheeeheeeheeeheeee......[ROFL2]

[pickenup]

Thanks, the wife and I had a good chuckle out of this story.


Use equal parts butter and flour to make a roux
This is what we use.