Quarantine Cooking - Tomato Gravy

[@dc15155]

Dear Paula! Thank you for your videos! My 88 year old Father lives with us now and he loves you! He and my Mother watched you before she passed. Now I pull your videos up, and he just smiles. I cook your recipes for him and he is happy! He Loves Country cooking. I can’t wait to make your tomato gravy with Country style steak and grits!

[@ASH-kj9xt]

We used to have tomato gravy, biscuits, bacon, grits and eggs for supper during the summer when fresh tomatoes were in season. One of my momma’s favorite meals! Of course, it’s good during the winter using those tomatoes we put up during the season. This brought back so many great memories! Now I know what we are having for supper tonight! Thank you, Paula! I hope you never stop making these videos for us! ♥️🙌

[@cordelia3377]

Mrs. Paula...watching you is like watching one of my aunties girl...you talk just like my mommy, rest her soul and so genuinely!!! Have loved you for years little lady💋💋💋

[@margaretjaeger2064]

Once upon a time, when I was about 12 or 13, my grandma got ill and took to her bed. Their son and daughter lived with them to take care of them but Aunt had a job she needed to go to so she asked my Mom if I could cook and would I sit with grandma so I could also cook lunch for grandpa. I could cook so I gladly went. They ate a hearty lunch instead of a big supper. Aunt had told me to cook the pork chops and a couple of other things I wanted to do. One accompaniment I liked with pork chops was stewed breaded tomatoes, so I set about cooking those with celery, onions and bacon drippings in it. The tomatoes had so much juice they didn't want to cook down so I'd boiled them so long and had to get them done. Broke up the bread and put it in the stewed tomatoes but kept boiling the mix. To my horror, the bread fell all apart and made it look like a a pudding. Grandpa came home from his gardening and sat down. I set the food on the table but didn't mention the breaded tomatoes which weren't such a dish after they'd boiled the bread into bits. Uncle also came in from his Sat. work but made his own main dish of scrambled eggs. I sat down to eat too. Grandpa picked up the dish of tomato gruel and exclaimed..oh boy, tomato gravy..I can't tell you how long it's been since I had tomato gravy..! He was delighted. My mouth dropped open, I was startled, looked over at uncle and a big smile was playing on his lips. So he knew what was up, I'd told him what we were having for lunch...but with grandpa so delighted with tomato gravy, I just shut my mouth and didn't confess my mistake. Well, after the bread dissolved in the tomatoes, it Was tomato gravy. I left well enough alone.

[@grammajo1889]

I love stories like this! My old stories keep coming to my mind a lot lately so I share with my grand kids and they love to listen. I have to try making tomato gravy, my mouth is watering.

[@sandyshoemaker6878]

Thank you for sharing your precious story! ❤️

[@yolandawhite51]

@@grammajo1889 please sure

[@tonyareese4045]

OMG...WHAT A WONDERFUL STORY & OUTCOME...THAT BREADING BECAME THE ROUX, LOL...HOW DELIGHTFUL

[@joaneaves7254]

Good viedo eaves Corinth ms

[@create4christ]

I love you so much, Paula Deen! Thank you for QUARANTINE COOKING. I cried when you left “that network”.

[@mordeys]

thank you ladies so so much for cooking in your kitchen the way we do. no gloves , touching your food, tasting your food, no being afraid of "germs". we mommas have cooked just like this for centuries and no body died from that. lots of other things but not momma touching her face while cooking or not wearing ppe(personal protective equipment) like food or yourselves are toxic. so glad i found your channel. subbed and sharing with the kids.

[@ellytorres7630]

It is sooooo great when you are fixing something and getting your ingredients, and have to wait a minutes to find your words, and NOONE interrupts you, and then your words find you, and you keep going, so natural so comforting. You are a very inspirational lady. Thank you for Sharing Paula!!

[@rebeccah6786]

My Grandma D used to make tomato gravy with biscuits for me when I was growing up. It was my hands down favorite breakfast. She would use tomato juice she home canned from her garden. You ain't NEVER had good food till you tasted that! ❤

[@lonestar4374]

Yep!

[@teresabasinger5965]

@Rebecca H I had chocolate gravy and biscuits when I was growing up! That was MY favorite breakfast. Lol! 👍

[@lizmiller7681]

I’m adding my voice to all the many who are begging you to please continue these WONDERFUL videos even after this quarantine is over. They’re the best videos I’ve seen in a long time and I enjoy them so very much, I find myself watching them a second time to be sure I follow the recipe correctly. So, please keep posting these type videos... you can’t go wrong when so many people love them so much. ⚡️💖⚡️ from a loyal fan in the Piney Woods of East Texas.

[@sherrylowe7505]

I had tomtoe gravy over swiss steak it was so good

[@lelastearns9974]

Miss Paula, I was raised poor in south Georgia and north Florida. We had a lot of the dishes that you have cooked and are my favorites. Breakfast tomato gravy with biscuits is a different recipe entirely. Much more basic. Drippings from bacon, pork chops, salt pork or sausage, flour for the roux, 1 jar/can tomatoes, equal amt of water Salt and black pepper. Home free! Fabulous!

[@KindCountsDeb3773]

I'm from Fla and my Mama would make it, serve it over rice as a side dish, usually with smoked sausage. An economical and DELISHES meal! What I love about a lot of Southern meals is it could be a cost saver, but you still got a great dish, no skimping on taste or quality ! yum

[@amandagills9536]

My great grandmother used to make this. As fast as my tomatoes are growing I'm glad you're sharing all these recipes with tomatoes. I started watching you when I was pregnant with my son. He's almost 18 now!

[@valerieleigh4776]

Thank you Paula for the videos. I’m an essential worker, been working the whole time. But I’m alone and I’ve been turning on your videos at night to keep me company. Appreciate you so much!!!!❤️❤️❤️

[@JeannieMitchellMyers]

We love you Paula! Loved the dogs, I lost my Yorkie after 14 years, and every time I see a precious fur baby, my heart melts, thanks for sharing your cooking, your home and your fur babies with us!

[@susanpayne1164]

Alabama folks love you Ms. Paula...My mama and I watched anything and everything you were ever in on tv, even after I was married we would be on the phone while you were cooking. I lost her back in 2014, but that is one of the special memories I have with her. Susan from Gardendale, AL

[@apcadd80]

Just the recipe I was looking for. And if Paula has a recipe for it I already know it’s good and easy to make. Plus got that butter in there we all love. You are my go to for all things food, for like 15 plus years! Thank you miss Paula for keeping it southern.

[@donnam2358]

So glad you made this video. My Dad learned how to make Tomato gravy while in the Merchant Marines. My Mother made it when we were kids - but didn’t like it - so she would make white gravy first, then put her gravy in a little bowl - and added the canned tomatoes for the rest of us. Her biscuits & tomato gravy is what I always asked for when choosing my birthday meal. She used bacon drippings. We lost our mother @ the age of 91 last November. I guess - @ 65 yrs old - I will have to start making it myself! Guests, grandkids, relatives & friends were always skeptical, but after having Hazel’s Tomato gravy - they were sold. ❤️❤️. Definitely a comfort food if there ever was one.

[@livingwithcancer1245]

I just adore you Miss Paula. I have really learned how to cook because of you. I loved watching your show but now that I can I enjoy you on KZbin. Thank you so much for your videos and your lovely self.

[@sherrygrandchampt682]

We’ve made sausage and tomato gravy with onions and tomato sauce for 50 years. That was my grandmas recipe my moms mom. Of course we seasoned it also and pour it over rice.Ive watched all your videos. Thank you. I’m from Fresno Texas.

[@kacicrossfield8524]

We just love you around our house, and have for years. You and your family are just precious, thank you so much for all that you do and for this show you have been doing since quarantine we enjoy it so much ❤️❤️

[@fadingdandelion4792]

When I was a kid mommy had a friend from Arkansas that talked about tomato gravy. I am so excited to make now that I have a recipe. Thank you so much.

[@sandrashull8641]

Where’d ya get the salt and pepper canister at.

[@teresabasinger5965]

@@sandrashull8641 She sells them. I've seen them at her store website.

[@MsUnik44]

Thanks, Paula, I can see using this recipe as a base for many dishes... Seafood, chicken or pork. … adding sautéed shrimps and pouring it over pasta served with a crusty bread to slop up the gravy. Will be trying it today. Keep em coming!

[@dana6922]

I love your laugh! I love your energy! Every video I watch, even if I never intend to cook a thing, I watch I love the feeling of the positive energy feel 💖

[@lindakuzak7067]

I bought your cookbook Southern Baking last month...today I made your Loaded Banana Bread..SO GOOD Paula! The best I have ever had. Please keep making your videos, they are such a pick me up and you are greatly missed on TV. But I have to say these videos are even better!

[@j.gibson5800]

Years ago, I would've loved this tomato gravy dish. I was born and lived in Tennessee until I was 18, and my mother was a fabulous cook. We had dogs, but they didn't come in the house. And certainly not in the kitchen. She was the type of woman who made sure she was very clean before she went into the kitchen. She always wore her hair up with a covering to prevent a hair from falling into whatever she was making. She wore a clean apron each time. She never wore jewelry when she was cooking, nor did she ever touch her face, lick her fingers or wipe her nose on her hands, whether she was cooking or not. The top and inside of her stove never had a speck of any previous cooking spatters on it. She cleaned it all the time. I always knew whatever she made was absolutely clean. To this day, and now I'm almost 80, I cook the same way. My kitchen is neat and clean and organized. No one ever has to worry about picking up any germs because I don't put my hands on the food. If I get something on my hands, I stop and wash my hands.

[@starlabt4908]

I love this! We have always eaten regular gravy over fresh tomatoes but this is a WIN year round! I love how real Paula keeps it. If you are a true blue country cook. you lick them finger 100 times tasting it to get it just right. Thank you Miss Paula you give us country cooks some true credibility. Stay safe.

[@chefbetsy7680]

I could not have been happier than when I found you on KZbin. I'm an Italian American, first generation born on American soil. I recently opened a catering and personal Chef business after being layed off from a 17 year job at Kodak as a Chef in their executive dinning room that I started after graduating with a degree in Culinary Arts and degree to learn the business side of the food service industry! My DNA might be Italian but my stomach loves your southern style cooking!

[@sandrafinney9925]

Omg love tomato gravy!! My Bestfriend used to make it for me and her daughter.She is no longer here but the memories will never fade. Thank you paula for the wonderful videos.We love you 😃💓🎶🌹

[@niccig2995]

These videos have made me so happy!! This world needs Paula Deen!

[@cecilgrover8311]

great southern lady,sharing her recipes

[@niccig2995]

anne marie x what did she do to you? Nothing.

[@cecilgrover8311]

@anne marie x quit whining.u dont want critisism then dont talk down such a popular celebrity.

[@kathybassett4651]

Thank You 4 the tomato gravy my Mom made this when I was young growing up in the summer months when tomatoes were fresh from the garden it was awesome I haven't seen or hear about this till ur video it brought bk memories I have to make this 4 my grandsons TY

[@datzhb8797]

I love tomato gravy! I grew up eating it all the time lol for the longest time I thought it was something my Mama made up because I think I've only met a few people who knew anything about tomato gravy. 🤷

[@dorothydickens]

Paula DEAN you are my favorite Cook of all times Im so glad that you are on KZbin, YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL LADY N GREAT INSPIRATION KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

[@Familylawgroup]

Those tomatoes from your garden are huge....thanks for posting videos. Your cooking is so similar to my mother’s who passed away nearly 20 years ago. Sadly, I can’t cook but I LOVe watching cooking videos.

[@debbiehard9025]

Hey there Miss Paula 🥰. I have LOVED watching these KZbin videos 🥰. PLEASE keep making them! It’s like having your sweet self in my kitchen when I’m cooking 🥰. Love you girl 🥰🥰🥰.

[@angela2366]

This is a weekly staple in our home. I brown up a "little" bacon, sautee some onion, and then add my flour to make a rue. Then add my 'maters and milk until it thickens just the way we like it. This is the ONLY food my kids never picked through. They HATED tomatoes....except in 'mater gravy. I pair it up with some rice, sauteed green beans, fried pork chops, and yummy sweet cornbread with corn added. Some many sweet memories I had with my granny over her stove, and now with my grandkids over mine. Love you Paula!!!

[@lynnbluder9675]

I have never heard of tomato gravy till the other day, I live in Tennessee and thought I need to try this as this is a southern dish. I fried bacon and used the drippings and followed your video. It taste wonderful, who would of thought tomato gravy!!!! Thank you for your videos sure have enjoyed them.

[@barbarawheelhouse6922]

I have eaten tomato gravy 77 years. We make it with bacon drippings, flour, fresh tomatoes from our garden (frozen in winter) seasoning to taste. We serve over hot biscuits. crumbling the bacon over the . So good.

[@bonniebrown6960]

Oh I love tomato gravy !! I use bacon grease too . I never tried putting onion and broth in my tomato gravy before . I'll have to try that sometime . I just use flour , milk , and a can of diced tomatoes . I always sift my flour so it won't be lumpy too . Miss Paula , I remember one year my family and I went to Myrtle beach . My kids were still little. I woke up and my mama cooked breakfast for all of us . The sliding glass door to our balcony was cracked. I woke up to hearing the ocean waves and the smell of my mama making us tomatoe gravy and biscuits , bacon , eggs , and coffee . OH....miss Paula...!! That was the best morning I ever had in my life !! LOL !! Thank you Miss Paula for another great video !! I love you bunches !! ❤😘❤

[@mamamode1312]

Bless you Bonnie for loving your mama so well a recognizing that. It's amazing how food can bring cherished memories to the forefront of our minds.

[@barbarawhite6543]

My mama made tomato gravy with tomato juice

[@melanieronbrooks80]

Oh my word Miss Paula. You just reminded me of a meal my mamma used to make for us. Swiss Steak with Tomato Gravy and Mashed Potato's. It was so good and comforting.

[@virginiamilligan3161]

Paula, I made this tomato gravy for dinner with biscuits, it was so so good, nothing left, thanks for sharing this, love your quarantine cooking.

[@gpknowles7174]

Love you, Paula. Please keep doing these videos. Your recipes are keeping us alive. we'd starve without them.

[@leannejones2186]

Yum! My Daddy would make what he called Russian gravy for supper while my Momma worked nights. My Momma always canned tomatoes from our garden every summer so we could have good stuff all winter. Best yummy memories ever!!!

[@mikesheehy3714]

Paula you have aged so gracefully and beautifully. your little cooking shows here on youtube are my absolute favorites! Please dont stop them once this pandemic is over!

[@vickygoodrich4761]

I am so glad to see this recipe, I havent had this since I was a kid, my dad made this for us pretty often, he loved it. This brings back so many memories for me. Thank you Paula, I love all your recipes, but this one brings back memories of my sweet dad, who died in 2014. I really thought he was the only person that made tomato gravy, I've told other people about it, but noone seemed to know what I was talking about. Love you paula, just watching your videos brings so much comfort when life seems so hard.

[@michaelmason1932]

Thank you Paula for your help with cooking during this difficult time. You are a very kind and wise soul.

[@cjooutdoors5581]

I was raised on tomato gravy. I’ve covers thousands of biscuits with it. My mom passed away before she showed me how to make it. But I learned to make it over time bye never giving up till I figured it out. Now I make it for my grandkids.

[@meldoug535]

Tomato gravy is one of my family’s favorite recipes! My grandma was from West Virginia and her and her sisters would make it all the time. We eat it for breakfast - on eggs, biscuits, toast, whatever! Ours is just butter, flour, and tomato juice (although the sisters disagreed on the best way to make it, haha) It brings back so many memories of cooking with my grandma.

[@katd3797]

meldoug535 I’m from WV too. And we made tomato gravy with bacon grease, a flour roux, and canned tomatoes (that we canned ourselves) and served them on biscuits. Very close to this. It’s yummy!

[@sja2194]

I am also from West Virginia. This was a special breakfast meal at the end of the tomato season. My Mother and Grandmother used the very ripe tomatoes and creamed them to make gravy over drop biscuits made in an iron skillet. What special memories of days long gone......

[@bgueberdenteich5206]

not -her and her sisters ! It is SHE and her sisters . LOL.

[@gmanandhislady]

My grandma was born and raised in Cordele, GA. Her oldest sister taught her how to make Tomato Gravy and she made it for our family for many years. It was our favorite!

[@romeoalphafoxtrot9517]

Miss Paula. I love this recipe! Because I live by myself, I use a toasted English muffin instead of a biscuit. Biscuits would be better, but I like them fresh. If I made a batch of biscuits most of them would go stale. That would be a crime against humanity! Anyway, I top the English muffin with 2 ham slices and a egg over easy smothered in Tomato Gravy. Makes a great meal anytime of the day. I can't wait to make this for friends and family in the future. Missed you so much when you weren't on TV. So glad to see you back. So much fun to watch you and I learn a lot every time too! All the best to you and your family!

[@ds0328]

I started watching paula on food Tv and loved every show and taped each. I missed her so bad and to be able to watch while quarantine since March. I have all her books and use them daily, I am a southern cook and baker. I so wanted to meet paula in her destin Florida restaurant but couldn’t before they closed. I love our southern lady Paula Dean

[@lynnc4872]

I grew up with tomato gravybut my mom diced bacon and fried it. She removed the bacon and made the rue with the bacon grease. Delicious everyone! Also we always used sliced white lunch bread and just ripped it up and poured the gravy on adding the bacon pieces on top. It's a must try!

[@glendagrant9042]

I asked for this recepie not long ago too. I have heard my friend from AL talk about having it all time growing up. We are from South too. We had every other kind of gravy but Inever even saw tomato gravy. This sounds crazy but tomatoes are my favorite food. Not steak, pies, cake, chocolate or ice cream. My favorite meal is home grown tomatoes, thick sliced bacon very crispy, gravy and homemade buttermilk buscuits. If you want to throw in extra yummy add my granny's fresh dug hash brown potatos fried with bacon grease in a black skillet of course. I could just imagine how good it would look and taste. Iit looks so good but I will for sure make it with some good drippings. Thank you and our friend Alex for asking you too. I was so excited when I saw. I am 70 and a granny too. She has been gone so long but I remember my favorite meal like it was yesterday. Still my favorite today.

[@kendrabeasley314]

Talking bout tomato gravy being good with rice, my mom & I make macaroni & tomatoes sometimes & that's delicious also!

[@vivianpowell1732]

Kendra Beasley When I was growing up in the 1950s, one of the mothers in our neighborhood fixed pasta shells in a simple tomato sauce for her young son. He called it "shellroni" and it was his favorite lunch. The mother would bring shellroni to the kids in the neighborhood whenever one of us got sick, so all of us grew to love it too. I still make it occasionally. I just sauté a can of diced tomatoes in a little butter long enough to develop a rich flavor, then add the sauce to the cooked pasta shells and season with salt & pepper. Simple, the way kids like it.

[@autumnblond]

Vivian Powell l lol lpo

[@annaclark9345]

Paula Dean, looks good. I grew up eating Grits and Creamed Tomatoes (Add milk) with whole eggs added in and gently stirring so as not to curdle at low temp, then poured over the grits. Some thick pork side bacon or pieces. The bisquits were so good dipped in the creamy tomato with egg. One of the best comfort foods, especially during cold winter weather.

[@kathy7764]

We love you Paula! I'm so happy to be able to watch you again. Take good care of yourself. 🤗💖

[@ryanfolsom6095]

Watching you cook is one of my favorite things in life. Please don't ever stop making videos.

[@janetfitton4500]

My grandmother use to make tomato gravy. She would fry bacon with onions and I loved it. I am going to try making this. Thank you.

[@teresabasinger5965]

I've never had tomato gravy. Then again, I'm not crazy about cooked tomatoes. Well, fried green ones are delicious. Lol. Please don't stop the You Tube videos. We love them!!

[@teresabasinger5965]

We, my family and I, love these videos. My son watches and picks out what he wants me to make! Keep 'em coming Paula. I enjoy this side of you! ♥️

[@DDios-ih9de]

It's tomato sauce Italians call it Red Sauce and Gravy especially when there's different pieces of meat stewed in it ..Sauages meatballs chunks in one piece of pork..beef..spare rib and brosiole it's rolled pounded beef or pork rolled and tied stuffed with grated cheese parsley. It varies by region and family Its the only time you use tomato paste mixed with water than added She's making it totally wrong what's called TOMATO GRAVY It's southern Italian Calabrease ..Scilian. She's actually making a standard brow gravy using tomatoes.. So there's confusion BTW most labeled cans of American tomato puree is just Tomato paste and water It's garbage real Puree is called Passasta ( passed) it's literly. Pureed real tomatoes often picked in tall glass jars Multi is a great brand that has wide distribution in the states. She's a southern cook I suspect her Italian food attempts are nothing at all What's really Italian and with oregano Oregano isn't used as much as Greeks do Oregano turns whatever into Pizzola style..its not Italians favorite her Rosemary parsley and basil are I'm just passing by saw the video title and as a NY' we who grew up Italian I had to check Its a hotly debated subject is it gravy or red sauce. So. Now you know just in case you look into real Italian food. This sauce NO it's gravy It's served on Sunday.often with Ziti or Ravioli. In Italian homes communities. Ok that's it finito..

[@ordabee]

You HAVE to try it!!

[@teresabasinger5965]

@@ordabee I think I will.Thank you. 😊

[@deansurratt7404]

@@DDios-ih9de Italions may call it red sauce or gravy...however here in southern USA, it is still southern tomato gravy!

[@kathys8913]

Ms. Paula thanks again for another easy recipe. Please keep them coming.

[@debguess574]

I grew up on tomato gravy in the summer, I am going to try this. 4 or 5 years ago I had my Dad and Step-Mom on vacation and they wanted a tour of Savannah Ga, so after the tour I surprised them with lunch at your restaurant. After lunch I wanted to go to gift shop they were tired and sat outside across the street, and surprise, surprise what did I hear while shopping, yep I heard Hey Y’all and there you were, needless to say they wish they had gone in. Thanks for sharing Paula!

[@tinaadkins3042]

I love tomato gravy... momma always used bacon grease...love seeing you daily on KZbin 💕

[@gabrielperkins-lawrence5127]

“We’re not goin’ to the store like we use to...ya know, 2-3 times a day...” 😂😂

[@ELl_e..3]

I think she meant "a week" lol 😂

[@ilovegoodsax]

Surely she meant 2-3 times a week lol.

[@Auronomi]

Legit she was like 3-4X’s a day and I threw myself back I was like... who TF goes to the store 3-4X’s a day?? 😹😹

[@cfaz6763]

Hahahaha

[@kblewis3331]

@@Auronomi I know! Seriously! I don't even go to the store 3-4x a month! Forget 3-4x a DAY!

[@nataliemscrzysxycoolharris9623]

I want that cast iron pan!!

[@SweetPea1964]

Type in square cast iron skillet in the search bar on Amazon. There are several brands to choose from.

[@gloriamartin5711]

Lol me to!

[@carmenjones5528]

I have one just like it back home in Colorado. I'm in Minnesota helping my daughter. Flew out here and I miss my cast Iron pans.

[@thedoublea147]

That's an antique Wagner 1400 chicken fryer.

[@harolinenewell1181]

Me tooooooooo

[@BrendaC-cf7td]

Hi, Thank you Miss Paula. These recipes are perfect for whatever people are going through right now. Thank you so so much!

[@kodybrown7075]

I love you Paula. I have watched you since I was a little kid. You made me want to be a cook/bake all my life!

[@geoffreychadwyche5100]

Miss Paula...I've been a fan for years. I made the Tomato Gravy tonight with my sister , and served it with rice. LOVE IT! This will be a family staple. Keep up the good work, and please continue them after this COVID is through. Hugs and "Best Dishes" from Chattanooga, TN

[@risa74]

That looks like what my grandmother cooked her meatloaf in. It never had a name growing up. I have a recipe but she morphed it so much over decades that I can’t quite get it where I remember it. I will try it this way next time! THANK YOU!!!!

[@msblanche9035]

Loving 🥰 Life. Saturday morning, hot coffee and Paula Dean. I adore that square iron skillet.

[@echoman556]

Your tomato gravy is delicious! I can't believe that I didn't learn to make this, being from Louisiana. I served it over egg noodles and served it with some crab cakes. I used a small can of Roasted Rotel's and a regular sized can of crushed tomatoes. My son just went in for another plate full. I'll be making it again. Thank you, Paula!

[@deborahduger3860]

I made this yesterday. Omg. So this am I put some in a skillet. Added basil and fried eggs in it. DELICIOUS

[@jacquelineford5503]

I'm truly enjoying watching Ms. Paula on KZbin. I've tried many of your recipes since being home due to Covid-19. I have made a new social media friend listening to you. Pray you and your family are all staying safe and in God's Word Daily. Peace, Love and Grace. 🙏 By the way I'm 56yrs old Black woman in California.

[@dreamtoken57]

My Grandmother, Reba King Parrott, used to make us pork chops simmered in tomato grave, I still make it for my family, really good!

[@echoman556]

My distant cousin is always talking about making tomato gravy with fried chicken for her biscuits. I never heard of it. She lives in MS. Now, I can make it. It looks dang good!

[@MamaZsTexasKitchen]

I have GOT To try this! WOW this looks so good, You are such a hero to me. I tell people all the time I want to be the Next Paula Dean when I "grow-up". Thank you so much for all you do!

[@michelleowens1149]

I'm excited for this..I've heard of tomato gravy, but never had it.😋 Love you Paula!🦋

[@mammaduck5560]

This much fancier then what my grandma us to make lol ! I love u LADY so glad u r back ! She used bacon drippings in hers and canned diced tomatoes

[@Truelaine1]

OMG! I have always loved your recipe shares. You are the southern hospitality that I grew up with, miss, and appreciate so much!

[@juanitachristman2548]

I love, love, love tomatoes gravy, especially with overripe tomatoes. I actually buy them from the produce stand to make my tomatoe gravy. I don't add thickening, but cook mine down to evaporate the excess liquid. I have also made it with canned tomatoes. Excellent over homemade biscuits, salmon patties, mashed potatoes and any vegetable. I put it over green beans or corn as well. Yummy 😋

[@Familylawgroup]

After quarantine, you should consider a “fan in my kitchen” type series where you invite one or two fans over to teach a requested kitchen skill or recipe and try what you make. Alex’ letter (and Susan saying “sorry you’re not here”) made me think of that idea.

[@quick1001001]

@ Benicia Livorsi Although that is a wonderful idea in theory it’s not practical when you consider the safety aspects of bringing strangers into your home.. There are a lot of really bad people in this world that are very smart and very deceptive… Definitely not a safe idea ((but)) Maybe she could rent a small building with a quality kitchen and do what you suggest .. I’m sure she could get paid good money through ad revenue streams. 🙂

[@KindCountsDeb3773]

It's so oomforting and wonderful just to watch you Paula ! Your skills, technique and how your actually "move" around and cook!! I'm a senior and o r family in the 60'70's wasn't starving, but we conserved our money as lower middle class. MY Mama would make the gravy and usually serve it with smoked sausage, so I'll start with the sausage and use that as the drippings. Sausage was an affordable GREAT choice, it wasn't skimping on flavor ! TY for this, I will do !!

[@buffyl2674]

Just love watching you every morning! Brings a smile to my day! 💖💖

[@cordelia3377]

Momma is barefoot in the kitchen...I LOVE IT!!! Real deal cookin' lil lady...reminds me sooooooo much of my mommy ☺☺☺

[@Bianchi8000]

Wait, doesnt everyone cook barefoot in their Kitchen?

[@ELl_e..3]

@anne marie x what's unhealthy about it? I find it dirty for people to wear shoes in the house

[@Bianchi8000]

@anne marie x Well Anne Marie, I guess in your kitchen you may need to wear house shoes (which I have) because perhaps hot stuff falls on the floor. I dont cook with my feet, so I cook barefoot in the summer. Shoes in the house, make it a barn - most people do not carry house shoes when they go visiting. So you just continue to follow ServSafe rules and Regulations in your house and I will follow ServSafe in my house, in bare feet. Cooking should be done while you are comfortable not with too warm of feet because you have your panties in a bunch about being barefoot. Sorry for the disagreeing attitudes, but that's what makes these United States Amazing. Have a wonderful Day, cook in your bare feet and see if your husband doesnt like it 😉

[@Bianchi8000]

@anne marie x but we are not in a restaurant kitchen, we are in "Paula's Kitchen" in her house. No, no chef would prepare food for customers in their bare feet. This is not a restaurant. God Bless your husband for doing the cooking. Again, different Views and Opinions are what make Our United States wonderful. Have a wonderful evening, with out a tone in your voice - ask your husband if he's ever made a sandwich in his bare feet....you should go outside and go camping sometime. Different strokes for different folks....Enjoy

[@Bianchi8000]

@anne marie x well, that is staying in a Resort not Camping; I am a big fan of resorts, but I'm still going to cook in bare feet in my Kitchen. Maybe we'll run into each other some day at a Resort and we can continue this, in the meantime....God Bless and Happy rest of the weekend to you.

[@charleneball6879]

Love watching and rewatching your You-tube videos...it’s like being home! Thank you for good TV when other tv is so bad! 💕🌺💕

[@deann23c]

Thanks Paula, I need to try this one. I have always made it like my mama's with bacon grease and flour and I use tomato sauce and water then cook it down. Its so simple and so good. Some of my family don't like tomato chunks. Love your videos

[@karenmorton7268]

Have missed you Miss Paula!!!!

[@Mosaic_Crone]

When I was pregnant with my son 24 years ago Tomato gravy over grilled cheese is what I craved the most. 2nd was my uncle's beef or deer jerky. I guess I ate them so much they're 2 of his favorite foods.

[@lindagiorgio6058]

Tomato Gravy was one of dad's favorite things. I had forgotten about this, I used to make it for him all during the summer when we had fresh tomatoes. Never dreamed of making it with can tomatoes, I'll have to give it a shot.

[@MaryWehmeier]

Paula! Thank you! Tell me more about the size of that chicken fryer, please? I've been looking for one forever! That tomato gravy is going to be on top of my meatloaf tonight! xoxo

[@KindCountsDeb3773]

maybe find out the BRAND.

[@carynwood9158]

I was raised on tomato gravy A family favorite!

[@desull26]

My 4 year old grandaughter was watching with me. She said, can you put your finger in the pan. I said, no you don't do that, only Paula Dean, she has been cooking a long time. LOL. Also the tomato gravy looks delish!

[@Fortis_Bellator]

I just love tomato gravy. Grits topped with tomato gravy, and garlic butter shrimp on top! Some good comfort food right there ❤️

[@TheJosiahsmom]

Ms. Paula - I LOVED seeing you make this! My sweet mother in law (rest her soul) showed me how to make it. I use the drippings from North Carolina dried sausage whenever possible. Also, I have only used water after adding the tomatoes. When I saw you add chicken stock and milk, I was shocked! LOL. I must try this!! Thanks again. Always a joy watching you in the kitchen. Love you, girlfriend.

[@brendasimpson8563]

I love tomato gravy. My grandma used to make it.served over grits or rice. Love your videos.

[@littleme3597]

Brenda , Never heard of tomato gravy. I am thinking, the old timers...just wanted to use up, what ever they had to feed everybody. My grandmother made homemade navy bean soup, then put in left over potato pancakes from day before. Everybody loved it. There were nine kids in the family. Food was not thrown away. Only recycled.

[@thomastommy1192]

Wow, This does look delicious. I grew up in the South my parents use to make tomato dumplings. I would love to see you make a simple recipe for tomato dumplings, My father use to make them with sugar for us kids for lunch sometimes. After we moved up North he made it and used can biscuits for the dumplings. He would serve it with leftover biscuits from breakfast. I would love to see you do a video on tomato dumplings. As always your videos are the best. I am a long-time fan of yours. I love to watch you and your sons in the kitchen and on the shopping channel also. You guys are the best when you tease and cut up. Fans can see and feel the love you guys have for one another. I will look forward to your video. If you decide to make it. Stay well and safe. As always stay with God.

[@medicineheartds9631]

I'm about to find out if my husband knows his tomato gravy....lol. He's mentioned it many times over the 45 years we've been married. Oddly he has no answers on how to make it. Now, mind you, he is a very good cook❣️. Paula I have missed you on TV. Very glad to see you here. Please don't stop your new show. I don't watch that channel anymore because of how you were treated. God bless ya'll.

[@jaimieswindler7450]

My mom made tomato gravy and bisquick biscuits for me often. Then she would warm 2 leftover biscuits in foil for my walk to the bus stop in the morning. The best part was holding those warm biscuits inside the pockets of my winter coat for my breakfast on the bus. Also I stand by the fact that 2 biscuits is always the appropriate portion. 😃

[@cfaz6763]

That square skillet is made for cornbread I bet, and I only know that because my good friend is from Alabama LOL. I'm native to NY! That is amazing that there is history attached to it and even more amazing that it is being used by the numero uno southern chef today. I want one!😭😭😭

[@stephwofford6811]

My family always liked to slice a fresh garden tomato over a biscuit and pour our white gravy (made of bacon drippings, flour, milk) over it. Delicious! This would probably taste as well!

[@gretchenarrant8334]

My mom used to make biscuits and tomatoes. They were so good. Thank you for this!! I have never seen a square cast iron skillet!! I'll definitely be making this! Love this channel and your recipes!!

[@jellydonutsrule]

These videos are the absolute best thing here on youtube! Love you Miss Paula. Thanks for posting.

[@littlesquirrel5007]

This brings back wonderful memories of my mother in law and her excellent cooking.

[@shelleycarlson6184]

Yes, LOVE being able to see you on KZbin! Paula, you are amazing. Love your dogs and understand about the allergies.💙