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>>>>>>> I expect you know that you need very good gravy to serve with it
>>>>>> This is another thing that I don't understand. Is gravy a sort of
>>>>>> meat sauce?
>>>>>> If yes, how do you eat? Do you put it over the puddings?
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>>>>> Yes Yes I suppose you can call it a meat sauce
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>>>> Oh! So I can call "Ragù"
>>>> Pandora
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>>> No Pandora, ragu is sauce with meat in it (at least that's what my
>>> mother says)...gravy is often made using the juices left in the bottom
>>> of the roasting pan when you have cooked a roast meat, you drain off
>>> some of the fat, add flour to make a roux and scrape up all the yummy
>>> bits in the pan, then add liquid (water, stock, whatever) to make the
>>> gravy
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>> Ahh excellent description
> thanks Ophelia...I think my mother would be very disappointed if I
> couldn't describe a cooking process...she is an excellent cook, and has
> given me a great head start in life
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> and no, I'm not American, I'm Australian :-)

Ohhh! Good! Australia is light year far from me
Pandora

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>>>>>>>> I expect you know that you need very good gravy to serve with it
>>>>>>> This is another thing that I don't understand. Is gravy a sort of
>>>>>>> meat sauce?
>>>>>>> If yes, how do you eat? Do you put it over the puddings?
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>>>>>> Yes Yes I suppose you can call it a meat sauce
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh! So I can call "Ragù"
>>>>> Pandora
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>>>> No Pandora, ragu is sauce with meat in it (at least that's what my
>>>> mother says)...gravy is often made using the juices left in the bottom
>>>> of the roasting pan when you have cooked a roast meat, you drain off
>>>> some of the fat, add flour to make a roux and scrape up all the yummy
>>>> bits in the pan, then add liquid (water, stock, whatever) to make the
>>>> gravy
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>>> Ahh excellent description
>> thanks Ophelia...I think my mother would be very disappointed if I
>> couldn't describe a cooking process...she is an excellent cook, and has
>> given me a great head start in life
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>> and no, I'm not American, I'm Australian :-)
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> Ohhh! Good! Australia is light year far from me
> Pandora
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I gather that you are in Italy...where in Italy are you?

Maria

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>>>>>>>>> I expect you know that you need very good gravy to serve with it
>>>>>>>> This is another thing that I don't understand. Is gravy a sort of
>>>>>>>> meat sauce?
>>>>>>>> If yes, how do you eat? Do you put it over the puddings?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes Yes I suppose you can call it a meat sauce
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh! So I can call "Ragù"
>>>>>> Pandora
>>>>>>>
>>>>> No Pandora, ragu is sauce with meat in it (at least that's what my
>>>>> mother says)...gravy is often made using the juices left in the bottom
>>>>> of the roasting pan when you have cooked a roast meat, you drain off
>>>>> some of the fat, add flour to make a roux and scrape up all the yummy
>>>>> bits in the pan, then add liquid (water, stock, whatever) to make the
>>>>> gravy
>>>>
>>>> Ahh excellent description
>>> thanks Ophelia...I think my mother would be very disappointed if I
>>> couldn't describe a cooking process...she is an excellent cook, and has
>>> given me a great head start in life
>>>
>>> and no, I'm not American, I'm Australian :-)
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>> Ohhh! Good! Australia is light year far from me
>> Pandora
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> I gather that you are in Italy...where in Italy are you?
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> Maria

Since 2000 I live in Piedmont in a country near Turin called "Germagnano"
(many trees, rivers and mountains here).
Before I lived in "Castelli Romani" - Rocca di Papa (near Frascati-Rome).
There I have two brothers and my mother.
Cheers
Pandora
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