My Shameful Love of Brown Truckstop Food (Photos)

The wife has left me for a few hours of "ladies night out" tonight. I think they drink adult beverages and then go yard rolling. She has a fast car, so I have always assumed that she drives getaway. I am a good husband. I don't ask too many questions.

With her gone, I sadly have fallen back into bad habits that are documented in this photo-post. It should surprise no one that I have an unhealthy fondness for brown truck stop food, so here it is. If this isn't truck stop food, it certainly needs to be if they expect to get my business.

Gravy smothered cube steak with whipped potatoes and roasted corn.

I started with a couple of cube steaks ($2.25), a medium and small red potato ($0.80) and ear of yellow corn ($1.00) an onion ($0.30), 3 Tablespoons of flour, 2 Tablespoons of vegetable oil, a Tablespoon of butter, a teaspoon of better than beef, garlic salt, pepper and a splash of red wine ($1.00). Total cost of the meal = $5.35.
plus $0.50 for my diet Dr. Pepper. = $5.85



I cleaned the corn, salted it and added a little butter, wrapped it in foil and roasted for about 45 minutes at 400 F.



I peeled, cut up and boiled my red potatoes with a half teaspoon of salt then mashed them with some butter and a touch of milk. Lots of pepper finished them. I am a little funny in that I like just a few lumps in my smashed taters.











For my cube steaks, I seasoned them with black pepper, garlic salt and then lightly breaded them.



As soon as the sauté pan heated up the guys were added and quickly cooked.



I removed them, browned a little flour and added a few slices of onion.



Then some water along with a spoon of "Better Than Beef" bullion paste.



then added the cube steaks back in to simmer for a while.



Oh and a little wine because brown gravy sounds better with a little wine.



I simmered my steaks in the gravy for about 30 minutes to build flavor and thicken the brown, then plated my dinner.



Time to eat.




Thanks Zack for planting thoughts of cube steak in my mind the other night.


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