What's For Dinner?

[Kathryn41 3,205]

store bought roast chicken, blue cheese potato salad, corn on the cob and sliced cucumbers and tomatoes. A nice and quick meal to prepare on laundry day - and good thing too since Joe got home an hour early. I was able to get everything on the table quickly.

[Sprailenes 47]

Made pasta with tomato sauce... or 'gravy' as it's apparently called... haha I'm not italian how the hell should I know.

Anyways yea that was our din-din.

[Autumnchik 6]

Nev, I am Italian (well, part) and I always though calling sauce "gravy" was weird. I heard it a lot growing up and just wanted to scream.

Hubby and I had salad and then a pasta creation of mine with sauteed scallops, roasted peppers, capers, sun dried tomatoes and artichoke hearts in white wine. Not bad at all.

Declan had plain pasta with butter and parmesan cheese, peas and turkey. Hubby and I decided to hold off on giving him shellfish until he is older, as I think I am allergic to oysters and hubby had reactions to scallops as a kid (not anymore). Normally, Declan eats what we eat, so it was weird making a different meal for him tonight.

[Sprailenes 47]

Yea someone at my work corrected me one day when I called it sauce, so I didn't say anything back I just thought it was weird. So I came home to ask my husband about it because he's Italian and he was like: "Yea its called gravy" Ohhh okay then... glad I didn't attempt to correct her.

[Marilyn. 340]

so the tamale pie turned out pretty good but I decided to make a packet of Mexican rice to go with it... The Mexican rice was good but the flavour didn't quite go with the tamale pie .. I should have made the taco rice

Edited June 9, 2009 by Marilyn.

[Carlawarla 1]

I ended up making homemade pizza for supper last night. It was very good. No idea what I'm making tonight. I'm going to look in a few recipe books maybe.

[trailmix 77]

Yea someone at my work corrected me one day when I called it sauce, so I didn't say anything back I just thought it was weird. So I came home to ask my husband about it because he's Italian and he was like: "Yea its called gravy" Ohhh okay then... glad I didn't attempt to correct her.

So not Spaghetti sauce - spaghetti gravy? Ok that's weird

[Sprailenes 47]

Yea someone at my work corrected me one day when I called it sauce, so I didn't say anything back I just thought it was weird. So I came home to ask my husband about it because he's Italian and he was like: "Yea its called gravy" Ohhh okay then... glad I didn't attempt to correct her.

So not Spaghetti sauce - spaghetti gravy? Ok that's weird

I KNOW! I thought the same.

My husband explained it like, you're just putting a little bit on top of the dish so that's what makes it a gravy.

Okay fine, I'll put tons on mine and call it sauce.

[JillA 2]

Yea someone at my work corrected me one day when I called it sauce, so I didn't say anything back I just thought it was weird. So I came home to ask my husband about it because he's Italian and he was like: "Yea its called gravy" Ohhh okay then... glad I didn't attempt to correct her.

So not Spaghetti sauce - spaghetti gravy? Ok that's weird

I KNOW! I thought the same.

My husband explained it like, you're just putting a little bit on top of the dish so that's what makes it a gravy.

Okay fine, I'll put tons on mine and call it sauce.

Oh I hate when I get pasta and there's just a spoonful of sauce. I like a lot of sauce on my pasta, enough to cover every noodle!

[Udella&Wiz 325]

so the tamale pie turned out pretty good but I decided to make a packet of Mexican rice to go with it... The Mexican rice was good but the flavour didn't quite go with the tamale pie .. I should have made the taco rice

my tamale pie came out a little salty - used regular tomoato soup instead of low sodium - combined with the salsa just made it a little salty - I threw in acan of no salt corn niblets - so festive!

[trailmix 77]

Yea someone at my work corrected me one day when I called it sauce, so I didn't say anything back I just thought it was weird. So I came home to ask my husband about it because he's Italian and he was like: "Yea its called gravy" Ohhh okay then... glad I didn't attempt to correct her.

So not Spaghetti sauce - spaghetti gravy? Ok that's weird

I KNOW! I thought the same.

My husband explained it like, you're just putting a little bit on top of the dish so that's what makes it a gravy.

Okay fine, I'll put tons on mine and call it sauce.

Yeah, I still think it's sauce!

Sauce

1: a condiment or relish for food ; especially : a fluid dressing or topping

2: something that adds zest or piquancy

3: stewed fruit eaten with other food or as a dessert

4: pert or impudent language or actions

Gravy

1: a sauce made from the thickened and seasoned juices of cooked meat

Edited June 9, 2009 by trailmix

[Sprailenes 47]

Yea I think it's a sauce too.. but try telling that to an Italian.

You know the way they are, they think they invented the noodle too.

[trailmix 77]

Yea I think it's a sauce too.. but try telling that to an Italian.

You know the way they are, they think they invented the noodle too.

You have to wonder if this isn't just something Italian's adopted when they came to the 'new country'. One of those intricacies of English - things.

[Sprailenes 47]

I am unsure. I just talked to the executive chef at my work.

He said he thinks it's an Italian/American thing. So I think you're right tmix.

[The_Dude 1,142]

I am unsure. I just talked to the executive chef at my work.

He said he thinks it's an Italian/American thing. So I think you're right tmix.

I've heard it too, from a couple friends on long island that I know. It just doesn't sound right. But then again, you can make vegetable gravy. It doesn't taste good, but you can still make it