Rich and Savory Smothered Potatoes

okay folks look now this is one of my true favorites now listen if you guys ever had a chance to go to Rosco's Chicken and Waffles the letter G is what I get and it's called a big mama special right it come with cheesy eggs and smothered potatoes let's get it okay so as you can see not a whole lot of ingredients right here we got that yukon gold on the potatoes right I'm going to pull these out of here anyway cuz we going to cut these down now you can see it's not a whole lot of ingredients right so listen you guys can customize your gravy however you would like to but I'm going to start mine off with a little little bit of this bacon grease right this gives me a little flavor if you guys don't have that there's nothing wrong with using butter and a little olive oil to protect it you know what I mean and then when we season it listen I'm not F to ramble we F to get it first thing we going to do is we're going to cut down these potatoes right now this going to be essential we want all of these to be about the same size so this is a bigger one I'm going cut this down uh that's that's really like a cool size but we going to get these nice and soft right so let's cut this one let's cut this one in half do it look the same yeah it do now the reason we want these to be the same size is so that they all cook and be soft at the same time right all right so once we got them all cut I like the sizes what you want to do is boil yourself some water but look let me give you guys a pro tip real quick if you look under here you can see that I went ahead and got a you know my my little white you know cutting board right I put that on top cuz I didn't want to get the starch on my regular uh board my cutting board so just giving you guys some Pro tips a wet dish tile and this will keep it from moving right so that's what keeps it stable now come on over here so what we going to do is just put these in the inside right all right so I'm going to give this a couple of generous generous pinches of salt right we're going to let it come back up to a boil and then we going to wait till these get I'm going tell you we want to get them soft but about 90% we going to fin some up in the gravy folks so what we getting ready to do now is start prepping our gravy right you can kind of like take your time cuz that right there is going to take just a I don't know I can't really tell you how long it takes it depends on how high your flame is and all that but I got it it's back to Rolling so I'm going to say it probably take about 10 minutes you know what I mean for them to get just the way I want them to so meanwhile we going to make this gravy right so I'm going to go ahead put my medium flame underneath here now we're going to just start melting our butter and now as you can see it's melting nice and slow right I don't want to I didn't push it around cuz you know it's concentrated on the heat over that way right but I'mma still give it a little bit of this Oo we folks and then when I say ooe this is my bacon grease okay so we almost melted now I'm going to go ahead and just bring this around like this look at that right there you're talking about having a base you know a great start to your gravy now don't forget the full ingredient list is on my website that's smoking and Grilling with a.com and that's wi tab.com right so we good here man just smelling that bacon and butter right there all right so now we going to go ahead and start introducing our flour right so again I like to introduce mine a little bit at a time I always tell you guys what I do know everybody told me most chefs not most all of them tell me it doesn't make a difference you can just put this in here but this is just the way I do you know what I mean I'm getting ready switch to a whisk in just one second folks but I love working with you you know like spatulas all right now we going to add our onions to it right so I'm just going to cut that little piece off cut this off too and now what I'm going to do is I'mma it's not really it starts off as a quarter you know what I mean but then I cut them all kind of different sizes right all right so now I'm just going to start adding my onion to it you add the pieces you want to you guys can cut it down however you want to you know what I mean I can put them in here like this they going to break up anyway once I get them in there let me just see how how this is I put them in here all different sizes folks again it's up to you how you do it now I'm looking at the color I still got it on low we not making a gumbo folks I'm just putting a little Heat on these getting these going so they'll start opening up and doing their layers now right here is a good place for us to go ahead and just put a little seasoning in there you know me we just work it [Applause] in everything gets absorbed anyway oh man that smells great onions are starting to soften up just a little bit but don't worry we GNA cook this gravy down it's GNA get softer anyway I just wanted to pick up some of these flavors some of that concentrated flavor from the beginning you know I mean that buttery goodness you know I mean some of that bacon even though it's going to be in there it's just a little bit more concentrated here now I'm going to take my broth or if you guys got stock I'm going to start adding it here all oh yeah now I'm going to adjust my fire I'm going to bring my fire up to about a medium high you know just so we can get everything to go ahead and you know release get some of this you know some of our flour our seasoned flour you know what I mean we got to bring it up to a boil all right then we start incorporating just all of it in here but I do a little bit at a time you know that to get it now that was two cups you know I'm going add another you know cup or so once I see how everything is and the thickness I want it to be a little bit on the thinner side cuz we going to cook these with the potatoes too so the potatoes can gather this flavor all right so now'll be a great time for us to go ahead and just get us a little bit on the spoon and we're going to taste it see what it need I know it's going to need a little salt and a little pepper but I just want to see if I need to make any adjustments to the season that I put in here you know previously and like I said it's going to need a little salt now I'm going to give it a couple of generous pinches you know what I mean and uh just check it out right here I'm going go ahead and check my potatoes see how far along they are you know what I mean uh this gravy right here is right you know what I mean uh let me go ahead and tast it again that's to my liking right there all right right now we work this in again let me turn this down on low now there we go if it gets too thick for you you guys you know while you waiting on your potatoes you can always add just a little bit more stock or broth to it I want to check these right I don't want them fully you see how I can put that in there like that and it just slide off that's good right there folks we don't want to do nothing else now we going to bring that over there to that gravy put that in there put it on the top probably go about another 10 minutes just to you know finish them up get them nice and soft and I think I will do a big mama special I might just make myself some cheesy eggs all right so now you just want to take your we going to do a transplant from here slide a spoon we just put these in here just like that now I didn't say this in the very beginning which I apologize you guys you know what you want to have a lid for this cuz we going to cook this a little bit like I say we only going to go about 10 minutes these are already like tender you know but we F to bring these the rest of the way so we're going to allow this to get thick and all of that the way we all love the gravy you know what I mean uh just right now I just want to get everything coated I'm going to put my lid on and then like I said I'm going to set a timer for 10 minutes [Music] folks all right so it's been 10 minutes I'm going go ahead break this away from myself make sure I don't catch no steam burn right now I just want to check the potatoes I just want to go in here like this oh yeah they ready that one we just push him down a little bit more maybe he was just up yeah you see this right here this what you want all right so we good there now I'mma to take my top put this over here in my soapy water right and now we going to let it just cook just a little while longer you know what I mean until we get the desired thickness you know of our gravy but look at that right there all right so now we just go ahead oh my God look at this right here somebody call Rosco chicken and waffles and tell them I want some CH I want the chicken and waffle I don't know what letter or number that is but you see that right there folks yes [Music] sir all right folks listen I'm going to get right into these listen I taste my gravy I know my gravy is right you can see I'm kind of like just up and going I've been cooking all morning you know what I mean uh this is about to be my breakfast now don't look at my size and my plate and say hey you about to eat all that n I'm about to eat half of this and save the rest for later but if you guys come on here and take a look at that right there that right there is Big Mama special the letter G get it if you ever go to big uh go to Rosco's Chicken and wa waffles right so now I'm going to go ahead and just try it and if you come in here and take a look you want to know are they tender look this is just my oh look at that oh I'mma stop that you know what I mean cuz it's doing nothing but teasing me give me a little onion and a little egg oh don't leave me onion I'mma hurry up and say cheers [Music] y'all let me hurry up and wipe my mouth I got a little bit more cooking to do but man this is good now let me know down in the comment section below what Would You Do by this being the holidays you guys are probably cooking in Birds you could have like leveled up put some drippings in this man there's so many things you can do with your gravy is it just blows my mind right now talk to me down in the comment section below don't forget everything is on my website smoking grilling withth a.com and that's wi tab.com um hey I got some great bundles you guys check out the website I done put in a a lot of work you know what I mean got all the recipes you guys can look under Thanksgiving look under Christmas whatever you want to do I'm more than likely I have a recipe for you now if you're new to my channel let me take this time to say thank you for watching this video don't forget to smash that like button right that's real important right and subscribe and tell everybody out there there's a channel out here that's simplifying these recipes and taking a mystery out of cooking and what did I do with my spoon I tell you what I'm out peace [Music]