Thank you, Bogey - back to the debate...gravy or sauce?

Yes you do.

There's

Alfredo sauce.
Pesto sauce.
Vodka sauce.
Marinara sauce.
Mushroom sauce.

But when you brown meatballs, sausage, pork & beef brocolla in a large pan and then add the meat to a pot of fresh totmato / marinara sauce, it becomes MEATS IN THE GRAVY.


It's not called meats in the sauce, or meats with tomatoes, or meats in marinara. You've never heard nor will you ever hear it reffered to anything but MEATS IN THE GRAVY!

Match, point and game - Don Cardi!

Does that mean according to your explanition if I put ham or chicken in my alfredo sauce it becomes alfredo gravy?

Absolutely not. Many restaurants make Fettucini Alfredo with Ham & Peas as well as Fettucini Alfredo with boneless chicken breast.


Now please go and pick some weeds out of the lot behind your property, pour some bacon grease fat on them and call it dinner. And make sure that you don't scare the squirrels away when you pull out those weeds!

First of all it's not a lot it's the mountains where I pick the weeds.
Second of all it's not MY property.
Third of all I can't pick any tangle guts cuz they're not in season anymore. I have to wait to the beginning of next spring. And I haven't had any to eat in a couple years.
Fourth of all don't knock it till you try it.

How many variations are there for cooking with weeds?

You askin me?

NO, I'm asking Lavinia from Italy.

Usually when you end a sentence with a question mark, it means that you're asking!

Smartass! Smartass! smartass!

I only know of 1 way to make tangleguts. That's the way I posted about. And trust me I'm not that good of a cook.

I wasn't being a smartass Mig. I asked you a question and you answered with a question! Who was really being the smartass?

One way, huh?

Gee, I wonder how many ways there are to make pasta?

Teasing!!



So what's your point?

Originally Posted By: Don Cardi
Gee, I wonder how many ways there are to make pasta?

Let's see...pasta and strangled guts, pasta and pig brains, pasta con squirrel, pig ears and pasta, pasta with dandelions, pasta ala possum, pasta and lard, spaghetti and jackrabbit sauce, rotini and elk tongue...

Bon appeitte!

Your family must be from the southern hills, BubbaMark.

Sorry, guys...you'll never catch me eating any of the before mentioned.

Well I'm not sorry for eating tangle guts or squirrel or deer. But if there ever comes a time that food is hard to come by I know my family won't go hungry.

When the end of the world comes, there's no doubt me and Don Cardi will be knocking on your, Mig!

Will you be coming over together?

Uh oh....

"Hey Colonel, go out and run over two more squirrels... we got company comin'".

No need to run them over. All he has to do is open the front door and shoot.

As I told you before, I am only half hillbilly on my pappy's side but my wife is 110% backwoods, redneck, hayseed, hillybilly bred. She melts butter to pour on her butter and can make a batch of peppered breakfast gravy - NOT sauce, and eat a whole bowl for dinner along with bacon half cooked to preserve the rubbery fat texture! She never throws out the grease - I'm told that is against the law in the south - and uses the lard to snack on while washing it down with a 12 pack of Mountain Dew...anybody know a MT. Dew interventionist?!? I knew she was an authentic hick when she cooked chicken and dumplings from scratch and my dad loved it!!! Of course, my Italian mom was instantly hacked off because a Rebel had infiltrated the Union cucina!!! I'm willing to overlook all this drama because my "Ellie May" wife is hot and looks a lot like Marie Osmond!!! HEE HAW and HOO-HAH BOY!

I'd love to meet your wife one day.

She deserves a medal putting up with me for 22 years!

I got ya beat by 5 years. A friend of mine from VA told me that she's gonna put me in for sainthood cuz I married the Col.

Speak for yourself my friend! You won't catch me eating squirrel! Mine as well eat rat! Same family.

I've eaten alligator and snake, but a squirrel is a rodent. Disgusting!

Squirrel tastes just like turkey. Don't knock it till you try it. Like I said before I won't go hungry.

It's a rodent for GOD's sake! How in the world anyone can justify eating a rodent, outside of desperately trying to survive, is beyond me!