My day is ruined

[hc4361]

Ruined, I tell you!

I was really looking forward to my dinner of pork chop, mashed potatoes and veggies. Been looking forward to it all day. It was completely spoiled by lumpy gravy!!! Arggghhhhh

Don't know what I did wrong - I used the same granuals I always do for a midweek dinner.

It's a good thing I don't have a cat.

[sandyRoe]

You'd be doing me a favour if you'd come around and kick next doors for me.

[ummmm]

Ohhhh....how did you make the gravy?

[wolf63]

I didn't read your post properly and started at the end - my thought was that you cooked the meat in your meal badly and if you had had a cat you may have eaten this instead.

The hair would get stuck in your teeth!

[hc4361]

I made the gravy in my usual cordon blurghh style. 6 spoons in a jug, 3/4 pint of boiling water, stir like billy o.

If I were desperate enough to eat a cat, I think I'd skin it first, and pray for lump free gravy. Fur balls are just nasty.

[sir.prize]

hc - surely the ratio for ¾pint is only four teaspoons of granules.

[cupid04]

No wonder it was lumpy, I would have only used half of that!

[hc4361]

Noooooo. 4 teaspoons for a half pint, 8 spoons for a pint.
(Bisto granuals)

[ummmm]

I just guess...I usually do it in a saucepan as well.

[piggynose]

i take it you havent a hand blender, as its usually a god send

[cupid04]

My aunt makes a lovely gravy. She puts about three quarters of a teaspoonful
of cornflour into a jug with a little water , mixes it to a paste, then adds gravy granules and one oxo to about a pint of boiling water. Delicious.
You could have scraped your gravy off chop and statred again!

[fliptheswitch]

Next time, whack it through a sieve. I never use granuals, but I do always do this with my homemade gravy... which is always lumpy.

[hc4361]

I would have sieved it but didn't realise until it was too late. I scraped as much as I could off.

[askyourgran]

I remember my mum once strained the gravy over the sink. Lumps in a seive, remembner it well.

[askyourgran]

remember it even.^^

[hc4361]

That's funny, askyourgran

[scotman]

I make a paste to begin with and then add that to the water.

[fliptheswitch]

I do that with Nesquik milkshake powder... but with milk, obviously. Is that the same thing?
Actually, I get this problem with custard too, and always have to sieve that.
Ah well, I guess you now know for next time hc4361.

I hope you've calmed down now (lol!) and had a nice evening :)

[welshlibranr]

Oh gravy granules!.........hate them with a passion!........homemade gravy is so easy, and tastes so good!........

[DTCwordfan]

agree - and take a good home made stock or the jus of what you have roasted.....far better in taste and probably healthier as those granules have enough salt in them to restock Cheshire.

[welshlibranr]

DT is so right, and gravy is so easy to make from scratch, tastes so much better, and is much better for you too!.......