Ewers or Bust- Lord have mercy I’m bout to bust

[Hiphopopotamos 20876]

8 minutes ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

Alright boys, all this chicken fried steak restaurant orders talk is nice, but let's get to the important discussion. Hit me with your best recipes. I played around with a bunch of breading mixes awhile back and came out with some pretty good stuff. However at this point I've forgotten which were the best. Guess I'll have to do it again. Oh no. 

Hell, depending on how long Quinn drags this out, I might be able to try out any suggestions and report back. 

As someone who spent his college years working in a restaurant - I breaded thousands and thousands of CFS.  All you need is flour, buttermilk, and salt and pepper.

Sprinkle the S&P on your meat.

Drop and pound that meat in the flour.

Drop it in the buttermilk - make sure its all wet.

Then drop that meat back into the flour - pound it out to size being careful not to tear the meat.

Fry that bitch.

Pull it out, drain, sprinkle with S&P.

 

*But the key when you're making it at home is to sprinkle buttermilk into the flour (and mix it around) so that you create little 'dumplings' in the flour container before you start breading your meat.  This happens naturally when you're frying hundreds of CFS a day - but if you're doing it at home you need to do it manually.

Edited December 8, 2021 by Hiphopopotamos

[Sabalo 997]

1 hour ago, nunna yo bizness said:

Sorry to sidetrack this thread from the business of food, but I saw earlier that there have only been 5 or 6 1.000 recruits over the last 20 or more years.  Anyone have a list of who those were?

Vince. I'm not aware of any others.

[BurntOrange&White 39962]

I hate when you go to a place and get a CFS and it's just all breading with some tiny thin piece of steak. 

[Mdhorn 5984]

1 minute ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Depending on when/if he commits, this thread might hit 1,000 pages before the recruiting thread does.

Recruiting page would've hit 1000 if this stuff were on it instead.

[tejas60 3534]

7 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Sometimes. I've also been known to have them serve it to me with cream gravy on it but then will use a little ketchup  worcestershire to take things up a notch. /noragrets

 

[Chooky 13317]

2 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

You guys are lucky - Denver is a CFS desert.

Yeah but you can put weed on a Salisbury steak.

[Sarks Personal Bartender 129]

3 hours ago, pearlandhorn said:

So if Ewers does come here, do both Casey and Hudson transfer?  I'm assuming yes as we still have Murphy coming in and another potential transfer QB.

I hope Hudson sticks around and tries his hand at slot.

[Duane Moore 5248]

9 minutes ago, realgreggym said:

I used to plan all of my trips between Houston and LaGrange so I could stop in LaGrange. To eat. There was nothing else to do in LaGrange back then. I remember the old Bon Ton.

There used to be at one time. 

[Deej 76897]

I usually try to not pass on what I hear from my very reliable source, but it's done boys and girls. Get excited...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicken fried steak is not chicken. 

[Chooky 13317]

1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:

I hate when you go to a place and get a CFS and it's just all breading with some tiny thin piece of steak. 

It should be a felony if that happens anywhere south of Kansas. Really? You're gonna get stingy with fucking cube steak? 

[realgreggym 837]

Just now, Duane Moore said:

There used to be at one time. 

I know. Before Marvin. I believe that he used to be a Sherriff before he went into TV.

[VirginiaLonghorn 4781]

1 minute ago, Sarks Personal Bartender said:

I hope Hudson sticks around and tries his hand at slot.

Well … he’s got the sideline out pattern mastered already. 

[Hank_Hill 18893]

Jesus Christ, just rename this site Chicken Fried Surly and then burn it to the ground.

[LarryMoeSurly 411]

1 hour ago, Horndog said:

 I am always bothered when I see chicken fried chicken on a menu. Why is it not just fried chicken?

Because gravy

[Errestaurants 2570]

Also, Chicken of the Sea is not chicken. Hope that clears everything up

[Chopper 17243]

"Sponsored by Change.org and Make a Wish Foundation for Battered Fanbases"  The photoshop wasn't professional but that was damn good.

1 hour ago, immamac said:

 

Hays City Store actually has the best CFS I've had in Austin and it's not even close. 

 

That's cause they pan fry their cfs unlike probably 95 percent or more of the restaurants being named here, which just bread and toss it in the deep fryer. CFS should be crisp around the edges and tender in the middle. Unless all you care about is the deep fried breading and shoveling the gravy with it.

 

[Chooky 13317]

Just now, Hank_Hill said:

Jesus Christ, just rename this site Chicken Fried Surly and then burn it to the ground.

To be fair, there's an undercurrent of mullet culture when it comes to CFS.

[Yev Kassem 1031]

CFS at Hill Country Cafe was the tits. I miss that place.

[Henry Hill 3156]

2 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

Jesus Christ, just rename this site Chicken Fried Surly and then burn it to the ground.

That reminds me of this little diddy:

 

[texasdago 7577]

21 minutes ago, Junior Bonner said:

Yeah I was going to date myself by mentioning the Bon Ton. Used to alternate between it and Cottonwood when driving between Austin and Houston…

oh man... made many a stop there.  Before - Bon Ton.  Now - Hruska's.  I was always trying to evade the Ellinger speed trap.

[Viper 12111]

3 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

Jesus Christ, just rename this site Chicken Fried Surly and then burn it to the ground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zF0vJ0MrzY

 

[morehornsepower 887]

52 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

Not ashamed to admit that I ate CFS at the Jim's on 183N and Burnet a few times while hammered at 3am back in the day.

Yessir.  I don't know what was in that gravy, but that shit stayed nuclear hot for ever.  I bet some of that shit is still heating up a landfill nearby....

[BigHorn'13 3386]

12 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

As someone who spent his college years working in a restaurant - I breaded thousands and thousands of CFS.  All you need is flour, buttermilk, and salt and pepper.

Sprinkle the S&P on your meat.

Drop and pound that meat in the flour.

Drop it in the buttermilk - make sure its all wet.

Then drop that meat back into the flour - pound it out to size being careful not to tear the meat.

Fry that bitch.

Pull it out, drain, sprinkle with S&P.

 

*But the key when you're making it at home is to sprinkle buttermilk into the flour (and mix it around) so that you create little 'dumplings' in the flour container before you start breading your meat.  This happens naturally when you're frying hundreds of CFS a day - but if you're doing it at home you need to do it manually.

This man knows what he's talking about (I add chili powder to mine as well.)

[Bevo 13596]

Just now, texasdago said:

oh man... made many a stop there.  Before - Bon Ton.  Now - Hruska's.  I was always trying to evade the Ellinger speed trap.

I can't tell you how many times I've been stopped there. I don't know if I ever learned to slow down when I saw the smoke stacks from the power plant on Lake Fayette.

[texasdago 7577]

2 minutes ago, Bevo said:

I can't tell you how many times I've been stopped there. I don't know if I ever learned to slow down when I saw the smoke stacks from the power plant on Lake Fayette.

So what about that meat market west of Ellinger... always wondered if there was any reason to stop. Before the nutty Thunderbird car dealer place.

[runthebone 8029]

There used to be this person who traveled around the state rating CFS.  The site is gone but archived:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181121113837/http://chickenfriedtexas.blogspot.com/

[TexasGolf 5007]

[C-Man 27254]

20 minutes ago, ousux said:

39 minutes ago, Errestaurants said:

Give me New York Hill in Thurber over Mary's anyday. CFS, double pinto beans, mashed potatoes, gravy and a slice of buttermilk pie.  
The crust on Mary's CFS is always soggy. 

Flossie's directly across the street is better. Thanks to a wait for a table at Mary's (and the place being full of goddam cig smoke) I discovered this secret on the way to Midland. This was 10+ years ago, no idea if it's even still in business or if either place still has CFS worth a fuck.

The tennis coach at Mansfield High that I used to cover in the late 90's swore by Flossie's. He would stop the team bus to and from regionals in Abilene or San Angelo or Lubbock whenever/wherever they were for the team to eat at Flossie's. I tried it once and it was incredible.

[TejasPedro 1858]

8 minutes ago, Deej said:

I usually try to not pass on what I hear from my very reliable source, but it's done boys and girls. Get excited...

[Pato del Muerto 52571]

10 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

Jesus Christ, just rename this site Chicken Fried Surly and then burn it to the ground.

You’d be thrilled if you had chosen cardiology

[TejasPedro 1858]

You don’t put on a condiment unless you are ready to fork.

[CoachTex 2629]

33 minutes ago, TejasPedro said:

Soggy CFS is ass.

I request gravy on the side, any fellow sophisticates order it that way?

Tip top cafe in SA puts the gravey under the CFS. Life changing. Tip Top use to be bad ass. Last time I went it sucked. 

[C-Man 27254]

Just now, CoachTex said:

Tip top cafe in SA puts the gravey under the CFS. Life changing. Tip Top use to be bad ass. Last time I went it sucked. 

And IIRC the gravy was neither white or brown at Tip Top. It was yeller.

[ConferenceRoom 6145]

2 minutes ago, TejasPedro said:

You don’t put on a condiment unless you are ready to fork.

The Russians are fueling their weapons?

[South Austin 52567]

I’m going to neg the next person who posts some legitimate news about Quinn Ewers.

[Chopper 17243]

[SarksJuggs 1106]

We need 6figs to weigh in on all the news. I miss seeing that crazy fucker melt down. 

[Sgt Hulk 13833]

[Viper 12111]

7 minutes ago, Chopper said:

Is that even enough coke to get a buzz?

[Longhornlove 4875]

33 minutes ago, Don Hornleone said:

I can vouch for both Goodson’s and Mel’s in Tomball. I’ve also never had a burger from Mel’s that was less than spectacular. They do it right.

Yes, Burgers are awesome, CFS, get the half, the whole won't fit on the plate. Wed night Chicken and Dumplings is the bomb too.

[MuellerHorn 4265]

26 minutes ago, Errestaurants said:

Also, Chicken of the Sea is not chicken. Hope that clears everything up

Edited December 8, 2021 by MuellerHorn

[Sgt Hulk 13833]

I’m gonna say it.  Growing up. I hated CFS and I haven’t had it in close to 30 years.  I said it 

[Wishbone 4776]

36 minutes ago, Don Hornleone said:

I can vouch for both Goodson’s and Mel’s in Tomball. I’ve also never had a burger from Mel’s that was less than spectacular. They do it right.

I was going to post Mel’s along with Goodson’s in my previous post. One thing about Mel’s  not everyone may be aware of is that Mel is a woman, short for Melanie

[Jive Turkey 12641]

1 hour ago, Assman said:

Well now I’m hankering for a CFS.

Best spot in DFW?   

All Good Cafe in Deep Ellum for me.

[Jive Turkey 12641]

1 hour ago, TexasFan21 said:

When QE commits, there will be a surge in CFS purchases throughout Texas. Hope supply will be able to match the demand. 

i'll absolutely do it.  and post pics.  errbody needs to.

[burdine 522]

I can give another vote for Mel's in Tomball in general.  Excellent home cooking and great burgers and rings.

[Ragde 244]

1 hour ago, Spider2YBanana said:

Pickled fried okra is fucking awesome 

Where is this a thing?

[Yev Kassem 1031]

Dp

Edited December 8, 2021 by Yev Kassem

[NWAustinDude 2252]

[Deej 76897]

12 minutes ago, Longhornlove said:

CFS, get the half, the whole won't fit on the plate.

That's the point of getting the whole. Who are you people?