Country Fried Steak

Hey, y'all

I'm in here in the kitchen with my favorite husband, Michael Groover

Hey, Michael. Hey. I'm going to teach you how I make your chicken fried steak

Did you ever make that when you were raising your children? You know, I tried, but I never, I couldn't do it as well as you

Well, it's so easy. I'm just going to put in some flour

Okay. How much? In this dish, a cup and a quarter. I'm going to put in a little salt

All right. A little pepper. Just stir that up. Yes, you can unwrap that steak, Michael

I'm putting some buttermilk in here. All right. And I'm going to put a little hot sauce in it

OK. Just a little. Now, let's come down here, and we're going to put a little of our house seasoning on it

which is salt, pepper, a little garlic powder. There you go. So we're going to put this in our flour

knock off the excess, and then we're going to run it through our buttermilk

and then back into our flour. And I've got our iron over here

Do you ever cook Michael? Michael. Michael doesn't cook much inside the house, y'all

but he is a great griller Let see if our grease is hot enough So is going to make a nice crust Michael Now it not going to take long

Michael, let me put this on. All of you seen this? Tell everybody about your pen

Every July the 20th is Earnings Hemingway's birthday. And there's an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest

and I've been in it for four years. four years, and this year I think I'm gonna win

What makes you think you're gonna win this year, mister? This year we're auctioning off a dinner with me and you

How about that? How about it? So you're already doing something. You didn't know it

No, I didn't know. No, I hope you win because I know it means so much to you

Looking good, Mikey. It does look good. All right, split those biscuits and butter them, please

My man is so pretty. Looks delicious, doesn't it, y'all? Now, I'm going to make you some gravy. OK

Now, I'm going to turn this off. Whoa! What? That is firecracker hot, Michael

All right, I'm going to just drain most of that grease off

and leave a little wee bit for the flour. And see all those goodnesses that stuck in there Michael Oh yeah I going to loosen those up You know some people say they can make gravy and it really is easy I never done it too good Mine always lumpy I going to take out some of those crumbs

So I'm going to put about a fourth of a cup of flour. Why are you keeping it from getting lumpy

It'll be a little lumpy with those crumbs, but that's what makes it good

OK, salt and pepper. And I know you like it real peppery

Now, you want to make sure you cook it long enough that that floury taste goes away

OK, let me have this water. And that's going to make our gravy nice and pretty and dark

And if we need some more, we will add it. Now I'm going to taste it now for seasoning

She's going to say it needs salt. It does. It needs a little salt. But I got it so peppery

Isn't that pretty? And see those crumbs? You put more on it

Yeah, those crumbs I took out. See, I'm going to put them little bits of goodness back in there

and just kind of mash them. So look at that beautiful color, Michael

Mm-hmm. We're going to let that cook pretty high just for a few minutes

And you just keep adjusting your thickness with your water because that's what tastes so stinking good

So do you put onions in yours or not? You know, sometimes I do, but for chicken fried steak

it doesn't normally have onions. Mm It gone All right Out of the way OK I got to figure out which one is that one Oh f it

Excuse me, Lord. Excuse me, Lord. Thank you. Oh, now look, I got grease all over you

He waits until I get in front of the car, y'all, and he'll blow the horn

I will jump out of my breeches. Michael, you're going to love this gray

because I got it so hot with pepper. Mmm, good. Look at that

I didn't know you were going to do that. I didn't either. I never know what I'm going to do, Mikey

because sometimes I'll do something different, you know, every time. And that's what I try to tell everybody

You know, the first time, go buy the recipe, but the next time, make it your own

You know, do what you want to. Do what your family likes. So there you go

Thank you. My precious husband. Michael, this is one of what I call Paula's keepers

Uh-huh. Straight from the Dean family table. Have a bite. Thank you

Good. You gonna keep me? You're a keeper. Yum. Isn't that delicious

Chicken fried steak, y'all. Thank you. you