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Make 2 Different Gravies - food.straw.gravies PEP BB

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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the straw badge in Food Prep and Preservation

For this badge bit, you will make 2 different kinds of gravy!


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Minimum requirements for this BB:
- make 2 different kinds of gravy

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 mins):
   - give the recipes or describe the process for each thing you are preparing
   - ingredients to make the gravies
   - making the gravies
   - finished gravies (meeting the above stated requirements)
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Gravy #1 Creamy Cashew Gravy (first 2 pics)
2 C water, 1 C Cashews, 1/4 C Hemp Hearts, 1 Garlic clove, 1/4 tsp black pepper, 1/2 tsp Salt. Blend all ingredients until smooth. Heat to a simmer while stirring. May need more water depending on your consistency preference.

Gravy #2 Pancake Batter Mushroom Gravy (last 3 pics)
I came up with this on the fly while completing the pancake BB. 1 Cup Raw leftover pancake batter, 2 C water, 1/4 tsp Salt, 1/2 tsp Black Pepper, 1/4 tsp White Pepper, 1/4 tsp Garlic Powder, 1Tbs Oil, 1/2 C dried Shiitake Mushrooms. Blend all ingredients except for mushrooms. Bring to a low boil while stirring continuously. Add Mushrooms. Let sit for 7 minutes.



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ingredients for creamy cashew gravy
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making gravy
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using a stick blender to make gravy
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making mushroom gravy
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cashew gravy on pancakes
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Note: This requires 3 pictures of each of the gravies.  Please upload the rest and put labels on them so it's easier to tell which is which.

 
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Made white gravy tonight and brown gravy a few nights ago.
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White gravy ingredients- milk, chicken fat, flour, salt
White gravy ingredients- milk, chicken fat, flour, salt
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White gravy- flour in chicken fat
White gravy- flour in chicken fat
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White gravy- milk in the roux
White gravy- milk in the roux
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Finished white gravy
Finished white gravy
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Classic brown gravy- flour, drippings, and chicken stock
Classic brown gravy- flour, drippings, and chicken stock
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Making the brown gravy roux
Making the brown gravy roux
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Stirring in the stock
Stirring in the stock
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Finished brown gravy
Finished brown gravy
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I made parsley-cream gravy inspired by Judson Carroll's recipe here, https://permies.com/t/187457/podcasts/Show-Parsley-Chicory#1497368
and a basic brown chicken stock gravy.

For the first gravy, I made a roux, added a jar of raw cream, a big handful of chopped parsley, enough chicken stock to give it the desired volume and thinness, and seasoned it with salt and pepper. I served it with roasted turnips: delicious!

For the second gravy, I made a roux, darkening the butter a bit more this time. Seasoning it with salt, pepper, and dried ground sage, I whisked in chicken stock until the texture and volume was right.
Perfect for mashed potatoes! (Note: I have some ground beef in the ingredients picture since I served it with the gravy, but it is not an ingredient this time.)
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Gravy #1: Onion gravy
This gravy goes with a dish my mother calls "Swiss steak" - venison round steaks that are lightly floured, seared, and then baked in gravy and served over mashed potatoes. It's also a very easy gravy to make.

Ingredients: Pan of drippings from venison, some butter, sliced onions, flour, water.
Process: Melt the butter in the pan of drippings. Cook the onions until soft and beginning to become translucent. Add flour to pan and stir until onions are coated. Add salt and pepper to taste. Pour water in the pan and cook until desired consistency.

Gravy #2: Sausage gravy

Ingredients: Crumbled and browned breakfast sausage, milk, flour.
Process: Brown sausage in pan. Add flour and stir until sausage is coated. Add milk, reduce heat, and simmer until desired consistency.
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Chopped onion for onion gravy.
Chopped onion for onion gravy.
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Everything else for the onion gravy - butter, flour, pan of venison drippings.
Everything else for the onion gravy - butter, flour, pan of venison drippings.
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Cooking onions.
Cooking onions.
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Onions with flour.
Onions with flour.
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Water added.
Water added.
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Finished onion gravy.
Finished onion gravy.
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Sausage gravy ingredients - sausage, milk, flour.
Sausage gravy ingredients - sausage, milk, flour.
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Everything together in the pan.
Everything together in the pan.
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It's hard to show texture in a photograph with lighter gravy, but it is thicker!
It's hard to show texture in a photograph with lighter gravy, but it is thicker!

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Gravy #1 - Quick Bone Broth Gravy

Ingredients

- pint of homemade bone broth
- 2 tbsp arrowroot powder
- pepper to taste (the bone broth is already salted, so I didn't add more)

Making

Whisk the arrowroot powder into the cold broth. Heat to boiling and simmer one minute.

Serving on roasted chevon and baked potatoes

Serve while hot.

Gravy # - 2 Sausage Gravy

Ingredients

- 1/2 pound or so of freshly cooked sausage
- 2 tbsp of cooked sausage grease (reserved from cooking the sausage)
- 2 tbsp flour
- 2 cups milk
- salt and pepper to taste

Making

Cook the sausage, remove from the pan, and set aside. Pour out the grease, leaving about 2 tablespoons in the pan. Whisk the flour into the grease and stir till smooth. Slowly add the milk, whisking out lumps. Heat to a simmer, stir until it begins to thicken, and then add the sausage.

Serving

Serve over fresh, hot biscuits.

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Please note that ALL food prep BBs strictly prohibit plastic, teflon or aluminum touching the food during the cooking or storage process.  

This includes food that came in plastic containers from the store, plastic cooking utensils like spoons, spatulas, teflon pans, etc.

The end goal is to move toward cooking from own-grown ingredients and similar sources and using PEP principles (for example sustainable and non-toxic materials) as much as possible.

Some BB submissions are being grandfathered in, but we are moving toward more strict enforcement of this policy.

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- give the recipes or describe the process for each thing you are preparing
  - ingredients to make the gravies
  - making the gravies
  - finished gravies (meeting the above stated requirements)

I made two types of gravy: Country White Gravy, and Roast Drippings Gravy

For the country gravy recipe:
Add 3 TBSP flour to cold water and whisk.
Add this mixture to warm broth and combine.
Cook for about a minute, or until thick

For the Roast Dripping Gravy:
Remove cooked meat from the cooking vessel.
Add 3 TBSP flour to cold water and whisk to combine.
Add this mixture to the dripping in the meat cooking vessel.
Stir to combine.
Serve over meat and potatoes and whatever else you serve.

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removing meat from cooking vessel
removing meat from cooking vessel
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flour/water dripping ingredients for roast drippings
flour/water dripping ingredients for roast drippings
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whisking
whisking
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finished
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White gravy ingredients: flour, broth, sausage
White gravy ingredients: flour, broth, sausage
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flour and broth mixture
flour and broth mixture
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fully combined
fully combined
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finished gravy, poured over wonderful biscuits
finished gravy, poured over wonderful biscuits

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To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 mins):
   - give the recipes or describe the process for each thing you are preparing
   - ingredients to make the gravies
   - making the gravies
   - finished gravies (meeting the above stated requirements)


I've never made gravy before so this BB was very neat to attempt.  I used the same recipe for both a bacon/pork gravy and a chicken gravy.  Perhaps those could be renamed brown and white gravy respectively...

The recipe was some pan leavings and fat from cooking bacon and chicken respectively.  Heat them up, add flour and keep cooking til the flour mix browns a bit, then add milk and stir/whisk.  Add a bit more milk if it seems too thick.  I also added a bit of salt to the chicken gravy, the bacon already had salt in it.
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Recipe for both
Recipe for both
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Pork gravy start
Pork gravy start
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Pork gravy ingredients
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Midway thru
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Finished pork gravy
Finished pork gravy
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Chicken gravy ingedients
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Melting chicken fat
Melting chicken fat
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Mixing in flour
Mixing in flour
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Finished chicken gravy
Finished chicken gravy

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Dave Burton wrote:Minimum requirements for this BB:
- make 2 different kinds of gravy

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 mins):
   - give the recipes or describe the process for each thing you are preparing
   - ingredients to make the gravies
   - making the gravies
   - finished gravies (meeting the above stated requirements)



I've never made gravy before and I only eat it on Thanksgiving, though I've made curry roux many times. It tasted great, at first, but pairing it with biscuits was just too heavy of a meal and made everyone feel gross after eating. We prefer eating oatmeal with seeds, nuts, and berries instead... add this to the 'things we do just for a BB' list! haha!
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