Sauce or Gravy?

[LPJR]

Picked up my buck from Frankie who butchers the entire deer into thin cutlets at my request. 

Made venison cutlet parmegiana tonight to have tomorrow. Pounded the cutlets thin and fried them just enough to brown the bread crumbs leaving them rare. Layered the pan with sauce and mozzarella with the cutlets in between.

Will go in the oven tomorrow night...

So is it sauce or gravy for you? 

My answer is obvious..

 

Edited January 23, 2022 by LPJR

[Hunter115522]

Looks great Lou!

 

And of course, it's sauce. Gravy is brown and goes on mashed potatoes 

[Eyesofthewoods]

Looks good!  To me it’s sauce my wife hailing from Essex county 100% Italian they call it gravy! As long as it tastes good idc what they call it! Lol.

[ratherbhunting]

sauce

3 minutes ago, Hunter115522 said:

Looks great Lou!

 

And of course, it's sauce. Gravy is brown and goes on mashed potatoes 

 

[Bucndoe]

Gravy and Sunday is macaroni day

[mazzgolf]

2 minutes ago, LPJR said:

So is it sauce or gravy for you? 

I have a funny story about this question

Back when I was 10 or 11 years old, my family went to Disney World - stayed at the Contemporary (back then it was one of the only hotels there! And the only park they had was the Magic Kingdom, Epcot was under construction. But I digress).

OK, so in the Contemporary, there was a buffet line for dinner. I'm a 10 year old Italian kid from Jersey... I get a plate of spaghetti and the server asks what I want on top. I said, "Gravy, please". What do you think he put on top of my spaghetti?

Yup - brown gravy! 

Who puts brown gravy on spaghetti??!?!?!?!?!? Who would even think if someone said "gravy" for spaghetti that they mean brown gravy??!?!??! I guess only in Florida.

I forget what I did. I think my parents made me go back and get "real" spaghetti and gravy.  

[rackemup]

1st of all that looks DELICIOUS!! 🤤

And my family always made  Tomato Sauce....

Gravy always went with Pork Chops, Roast Beef, Turkey, & Chicken & was made with Flour & Broth & "Gravy Master" or (Au Jous)

 

Edited January 23, 2022 by rackemup

[Buckeyes11]

Sauce is red. Gravy is brown. And no real Italian would ever use Ragu. Lol  I’m Scottish and Irish and even I make homemade sauce. 

Edited January 23, 2022 by Buckeyes11

[JD48]

Sauce from a jar is as bad as eating Chef Boyardee raviolis from a can and am only 1/2 Italian

[Haskell_Hunter]

Gravy contains meat.  Sauce does not have any meat.  It's that simple.

My Ragú contains pork, prosciutto, and sweet sausage.  It's a gravy.  And it's red.

Marinara is a sauce because it contains no meat.  It is vegetarian (possibly vegan).

[Haskell_Hunter]

1 minute ago, JD48 said:

Sauce from a jar is as bad as eating Chef Boyardee raviolis from a can and am only 1/2 Italian

Depends on the jar.  I canned my ragú last weekend.

[JD48]

5 minutes ago, Haskell_Hunter said:

Depends on the jar.  I canned my ragú last weekend.

Homemade, different animal

[nmc02]

Come on...obviously gravy and if you eat Ragu from the jar....

[6.5 Swede]

Like asking if the plural of shrimp is shrimp or shrimps, there will never be a definitive answer.

[LPJR]

31 minutes ago, Haskell_Hunter said:

Depends on the jar.  I canned my ragú last weekend.

Looks great Tim. And thanks for saving a jar of sauce for my get together!