Music for festive cooking: was It’s Gravy Day! 12/21/21

Relatively recent tradition, yet a tradition all the same: making the Christmas gravy on 21 December. Why, you ask??

Ask Paul Kelly:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-21/paul-kelly-what-is-gravy-day/100715890  (Speakers on, and tissues out for video clip towards end of article)

Note that many places in Australia may have dropped pandemic restrictions in time for Christmas but omicron has really wrought havoc so either restrictions are coming back or people are isolating. (Hubby & I have had 2 covid tests in a week, luckily not covid but he’s got bad flu and infected sinuses)


You’ll note the gravy recipe in the song. Do you add tomato sauce (tomato paste or even ketchup) to your gravy?

What’s your favourite recipe?


...is "gravy" something else in Australia? 

My favorite is the one in this recipe, which I usually cut in half because I don't make that many 20-lb turkeys -- works just fine with a chicken: 

https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/honey-brined-turkey-with-giblet-cream-gravy-102478


kenboy said:

...is "gravy" something else in Australia? 

My favorite is the one in this recipe, which I usually cut in half because I don't make that many 20-lb turkeys -- works just fine with a chicken: 

https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/honey-brined-turkey-with-giblet-cream-gravy-102478

"Gravy" in the context used in the above post is a tomato based pasta sauce.


kenboy said:

...is "gravy" something else in Australia? 

I don't mind this one - https://www.bestrecipes.com.au/budget/articles/make-gravy/1oj32tco


joan_crystal said:

kenboy said:

...is "gravy" something else in Australia? 

My favorite is the one in this recipe, which I usually cut in half because I don't make that many 20-lb turkeys -- works just fine with a chicken: 

https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/honey-brined-turkey-with-giblet-cream-gravy-102478

"Gravy" in the context used in the above post is a tomato based pasta sauce.

No, it's definitely not, since there's apparently debate over whether to put tomato sauce in the gravy or not, and it includes flour. 


Marksierra’s link gives a good idea of the basic ways we’d tackle a good gravy here - well, except for the variation in one of their options, that uses milk. I’d really wonder about that one! 
Joan, pasta sauce (or what I believe some of you call ‘red sauce’) wouldn’t pass as a gravy here: that would have to be better defined by ingredients and regionality as bolognese, etc. We’re very proud of our Italian population, some of whom have been here for almost 160years. (And that includes small regional towns too, not just the State capitals)

Of course a lot of younger people buy ready-made gravies in packets or tubes from the supermarket… 

kenboy said:

No, it's definitely not, since there's apparently debate over whether to put tomato sauce in the gravy or not, and it includes flour. 


Thought this article might be helpful, and also amusing. Think of it as a form of armful travel.

Happy Christmas & Kwanzaa, everyone! Happy ancient Roman festivals too!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/25/australian-christmas-songs-ranked-by-how-baffling-they-are-to-literally-anyone-else 



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