On Saturday I got ambitious. I decided it was a great day for a roast since we weren’t doing anything special, but I took it a step further. I wanted hot beef sandwiches complete with homemade bread, mashed potatoes, and gravy.
So I stuck the roast and potatoes in the oven and went off to find my best white bread recipe. Just before the bread and roast were finished, I made my gravy, which I used sausage and cream of mushroom soup for.
Now here’s the two major mistakes I made…
1. The potatoes I had thrown in with the roast because that’s what I normally do when we just have roast. What I didn’t take into account was it has a different flavor that’s just not right for mashed potatoes. They came out alright, but they had a beef and spice flavor to them.
2. I used sausage gravy instead of just going to the store and buying a jar of it. I really wished I would have, since sausage gravy just doesn’t mess well with hot beef. You really need the other kind of gravy, if that makes sense. Or know how to make gravy that’s not from sausage. Sadly I can’t make it from scratch either way.
The bread and everything else was fine, but those two minor mistakes had the kids picking at the food and only eating mostly bread. I also assembled the sandwiches wrong, piling on the beef, potatoes, and gravy onto a slice of bread instead of making a real sandwich and THEN putting the potatoes and gravy off to the side. They didn’t much care of that.
I liked it alright, but it would have been so much better had I done it the right way.
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