Did you ever have something to eat, in a home or a restaurant, that you would give your right arm to find the recipe for? I was in my friend's, great grandmother's home, when I was a teenager, and was served breakfast of eggs, bacon, toast, biscuits, and chocolate gravy. Sounds bizarre, but that chocolate gravy was one of the best things to ever hit my tongue. I never thought to ask her how she made it, nor do I have anyway of finding that long-lost friend, so I guess unless one of you has some idea, I will just remember it fondly. The worst thing ever served to me, was NOT what I thought I had ordered in a restaurant. I wanted Chili and corn bread. This is one of my favorite combos. Never order it in Tennessee. Evidently in Tennessee, what we call cornbread doesn't exist. (You know, that bright yellow, cake looking corn bread.) In some parts of the south, they serve what I always saw as "Hoecakes". In this restaurant, it was made with white corn meal. Imagine a damp, anemic looking pancake that has NO color. Ewwwe! :thumbdown:

Chocolate Gravy:

1/3 stick butter
2/3 cup sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/3 cup cocoa
2 cups whole milk
Heat butter in a cast iron skillet over low heat. Mix in sugar, flour and cocoa. Slowly pour 1 cup of milk into the skillet and whisk well to remove lumps. Whisk in remaining milk, stirring constantly, until mixture is thick, being careful not to scorch. Serve hot over
This is from Paula Dean....enjoy

Why I love this board so many wonderful people with that missing link we need!!!

OMG I nevr heard of choc gravy....i am in heaven!

OMG! You are my new best friend! Starting to look like you just made a lot of 'best friends' on here! :thumbup:

Chocolate gravy=memories of Mawmaw.. she would start making the gravy before she fixed breakfast..letting it simmer while she made shaped by hand homemade bicuits, fried up bacon so crispy,the prettiest golden srambled eggs. You could smell the gravy as soon as your head came out from under the five quilts she had piled on you during the night. You ate your breakfast as quick as possible and couldn't wait to open that biscuit in bowl, slather( yes slather with butter)spoon chocolate gravy on, secure large glass of milk... and dig in ...eyes rolling back in head...aaahhh HEAVEN. That's what I think of when someone mentions chocolate gravy.

Greek Easter Bread!!!!MMMM. But I discovered how to make it!

It is wonderful...

I had never heard of chocolate gravy before - - -

WoW for a minute I felt like I was right there in that kitchen ready to eat Bkfst. Thanks for the memories

Lol :) Just goes to show the different taste and ways to make food in various parts of the country. It's what we're used to eating I guess. :)

chocolate gravy? for real? for breakfast? over biscuits? I'll pass, sounds too weird for me.

Chcolate gravy is to die for. We put ours on waffles.

I never heard of such a thing, bet DH would like it, LOL

Yummmmmmmmmy!!!!!!!!!

Yum. I'm trying this one. Paula Dean never led me wrong.

Ive never heard of it either, but I BET its AWESOMEon wafles and pancakes. Isnt EVERYTHING better with chocolate?????????

Honestly, that's what I thought before the first bite...

The chocolate gravy my friends in Arkansas made was like regular gravy with cocoa added. Some people added a small amount of sugar, some didn't. It was good, but more like gravy then pudding..... :-D

sounds like when i make belgium waffles for breakfast and have chocolate syrup on top instead of maple syrup....yummmmmmmmmmmmmmy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry I don't have the gravy recipe to give but i do have a carnbread recipe i have been making for 40+ years

I cup yellow corn meal, I heaping TablespoonFlour,
I /2 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 egg 1&1/4 cups buttermilk, 1Tablespoon oil.

Mix dry ingredients together.Mix well. The add the wet ingredients along with the eeg beaten. Mix well and pour into cast Iron pan That has been sprayed with a oil and that has been heated to 350
bake @350 for 20 min.
I hope you like this as much as my family and friends have over the years.

DH kept talking about chocolate gravy, and even though it sounded weird and kind of gross to me, I found a recipe and made some for him awhile back.

It's good.

A little TOO good! :shock: :mrgreen: :thumbup:

Ok I'm done watching this chocolate gravy topic, I'm gonna wind up blowing my weight loss all to heck. LOL.

Never heard of it!

Am bookmarking this for sure. Need to remember this recipe, and when I loose my weight will try it for a special treat. Thanks

WOW, never heard of chocolate gravy, but i am game to try it :)

I think that gravy is the only thing I haven't tried with chocolate! I am a proud "Chocoholic". I am the only one in my family that will ever eat this and you know what that means.......


More for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG, my husband and his siblings grew up on chocolate and biscuits. Out of all my MIL's kids/spouses, I'm the only one that makes it. I used to make on Sunday mornings, but since the kids are grown and gone, I don't make it very often. This is her recipe:
1 cup sugar
3 tlbs cocoa
2 tlbs flour
2 cups milk
mix dry ingredients until well blended and no flour or cocoa lumps, add milk and cook over med heat, stirring constantly until it reaches pudding consistency. Pour over hot biscuits.
We have video of our granddaughter eating chocolate and biscuits for the first time.
I thought our family was the only ones who ever ate this stuff.

I think you ate in the wrong restaurant. I live in Tennessee and have never encountered, anemic looking cornbread, in a restaurant. I must admit we do not put sugar in cornbread, we call that cake. (LOL)

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When I was growing up we always had a special breakfast on Sunday mornings. Mom would make biscuits, chocolate gravy, hash browns, bacon or ham, and scrambled eggs. That's a comfort breakfast. Years later I was visiting my sister and we got to talking about those special Sunday breakfasts and decided to make it the next morning. Of course, we had never got the recipe for Mom....so Bobbie was in charge of finding it on the internet. The next morning we woke up bright and early to prepare our breakfast. Both our husbands were skeptical about the Chocolate Gravy. We almost had a disaster when Bobbie thought she was out of cocoa.......do you think either husband would voluteer to go to the store for cocoa? Not them.....they didn't even like the sound of hot chocolate pudding on their biscuits...according to them. The day was saved when Bobbie found the cocoa. After all was prepared we sat and feasted on our special Sunday breakfast and giggled just like we did when we was kids.

Here in West TN...cornbread is Yellow....always has been...always will be..:D:

I ain't writing that now
or bookmaking it.
I'm on a diet for diabetes.
JUST WILL NOT WORK FOR ME.
J J

Never had it but cant wait to try it on waffles. I am a true chocolateholic.

i hear ya there. a big ole woohoo to paula. i'll have to ask my friend who has family in the south if she knows of chocolate gravy. sounds so yummy.

i used to make myson chocolate pancakes with chocolate sauce and chocolate egg creams for breakfast on sundays. it would be good over pasta. i like tomake pasta desert, with butter and sugar ontop, ( shows how poor i useed to be)

I've lived in Tennessee for 40 years and never been served anything like that! Where were you?

Yes. We have a restaurant in Ky called Claudia Sanders and they have the best tomato soup. The last time I was there I ask if it was really the recipe in their cookbook. The lady didn't really want to answer, but said she hoped so. I would love to find out their secret. My husband said I might be disappointed because they probably open a can.

I love Hoe Cakes. I make mine with Martha White Self Rising Cornmeal, egg, buttermilk and some hot grease. Fry in hot bacon grease and butter generously. Nothing better. I grew up in a house with a southern daddy and a northern mama, so we usually had Jiffy and Hoe Cakes both. I love them both, but I love the convenience of just mixing up a batch of Hoe Cakes and have them done and eaten in the time it would take to bake the Jiffy. To each his own I guess.

I used to live in Shelbyville, KY and have been to eat there many times. The Colonel himself was there several times when we there. I loved all of the food; especially the creamed corn, and the wonderful deserts. I love family style served meals. Thanks for the memory. Moved from Shelbyville in 1976.

My DH grandmother made him Choc. Gravy.
I make my cornbread from Yellow Cornmeal, flour, eggs, and milk/buttermilk and smother it with real butter. My MIL makes this stuff and calls it cornbread my DH LOVES it. It is like biscuit batter with a half cup of cornmeal put in it. Ever eat a gritty biscuit? When she makes gravy she doesn't brown the flour either. Tastes/looks like wall paper paste. DH always volunteers me to make the gravy.

can't bring myself to eat it.. and chocolate is my favorite....but I love sawmeal gravy over whole boiled red potatoes...yummie !!!!!!! A southern thing.....