@Gloria Mitchell did you mrsn this post? "Oh my Lord Ken..seriously....put on your bucket list ! I fry mine in light batter of Italian bread crumbs and flour. I pull from pan when almost done wrap in foil and bake at 350 about 30 mintues. Cut with a fork melt in the mouth." If answer is yes, my response is that if I can't find it on the menu someplace I won't be trying it. I don't have time for frying and baking.
All this cooking oil stuff is so much fluff to me! The only meals I've ever cooked are Microwave dinners from Hungry Man, Stauffers, Marie Callandars, etc. My wife makes home-cooked meals however. If it were not for prepackaged microwave dinners, I would live on Peanut Butter & Jam sandwiches! I think Peanut Butter has that "protein" stuff you occasionally mention, as well as those Carb and Fat things. Hal
Well Got a takeout for Easter lunch today at Cracker Barrel. I got the chicken fried steak and wife had broiled chicken tenders. I hope that someone is going to say that Cracker Barrel doesn't make a very good chicken fried steak because I'll not be buying another one.
Our favorite place for chicken fried steak (or country-fried, as they call it ) is IHOP. It is right down the road from us, and they have it as a breakfast or a lunch item. We usually don’t go anywhere in the evenings, so when we do go, it is mid-day sometime, and we both enjoy the breakfast version of the chicken fried steak meal. It comes with the regular breakfast stuff (eggs, hashbrowns) plus a small stack of pancakes, and I am always bringing home leftovers for the little dogs to enjoy. We have a Cracker Barrel nearby also, but they are always busy, you have to wait for seating, and then everyone is talking, and it is too noisy to actually have a conversation; so we hardly ever go to Cracker Barrel.
I don't think I've had the chicken fried steak from Cracker Barrel but, since we have only one in Maine and it's a few hours away, I usually order something else when I go there because most restaurants can do a decent job of chicken fried steak. I've never had a meal I didn't like from Cracker Barrel, though. I don't know how it got its name. Some places call it country fried steak.
I think that it is called Chicken-fried, because it is floured like you would do when you are going to fry a chicken, as opposed to just searing and cooking a steak plain. When I was little, and my folks used to go deer hunting, my mom would cut little “deer fingers” from the meat, and we dipped it in flour and then fried it, so it was basically “chicken-fried venison”.
What is wrong with you people .. you don't like CFS. ya'll need me or @Al Amoling to make you some. I sure wish i had me some right now- but naturally the store is out..then taters and some gravy
The restaurants that I have been to that listed "country fried steak" on the menu served it floured, just like the chicken fried steak.
I make mine like Al- mixture of Italian bread crumbs, and flour, a tad of baking powder fry til almost done . Wrap in foil, pop in oven about 30 minutes..melts in you mouth.