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. 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. Hmmm.

Lesson learnt - when you get the flour container out of the cupboard, make sure it's actually FLOUR and not POWDERED SUGAR!!!! Gravy flavored syrup kinda sucks. Throwing away all that roast and veggies sucks even more. 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!