[Van Hagar]

I’ve mentioned this before, but my mamaw made red eye gravy, which is basically just bacon grease and coffee grounds, then you would sop your biscuits in it. I’ve only had it once since she passed in the early 80s, at the Whistle Stop restaurant in Glendale, near Elizabethtown, and I was disappointed, although that is a great country restaurant.

[Granny Bear]

Every old woman, including me, has their own spin on cooking certain foods. Your memory is connected to your mamaw!! Nothing could match that.

[Old School Hound]

I’ve mentioned this before, but my mamaw made red eye gravy, which is basically just bacon grease and coffee grounds, then you would sop your biscuits in it. I’ve only had it once since she passed in the early 80s, at the Whistle Stop restaurant in Glendale, near Elizabethtown, and I was disappointed, although that is a great country restaurant.

Red eye gravy is the bomb. My pawpaw made it, mostly whenever they had coountry ham.. But something even better--- my pawpaw made something called tomato gravy. He made it when they had something called swiss steak. The gravy did have an orangish tint to it. I put it over the steak , and especially over granny's homemade mashed potatoes. Best tasting gravy EVER!!!!

[Old School Hound]

Tomato gravy has its roots in the South, dating back, in some things I've read, to the early 1800's.  I don't have my pawpaw's recipe handy but if I find it I will share it. He made the best I've ever had. It's not just good over buscuits , but mashed potatoes, even meat dishes like meatloaf. Like I said aboove, pawpaw made it when he had swiss steak. It's the most delicious gravy I've ever tasted


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