Country Fried Steak

Do you remember the one main course dish your mother used to make that you always got excited about when you found she was cooking it for dinner? I know that I used to get extremely excited when I found out that my mother was cooking Country Fried Steak with homemade pan gravy. So to introduce you to this dish, you must first have the following ingredients:

• 4 cubed steaks
• 3 c. flour
• 2 tablespoons of salt
• dash of pepper
• half of package of saltine crackers or an individual package of Ritz crackers, crushed
• 1 c. milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 beef bouillon cube
• 1 c. water
• 1 c. vegetable oil

* To make the country fried steak:

1. In a skillet, warm vegetable oil until sizzling.
2. Meanwhile, in a bowl whisk together 2 eggs and 1 cup of milk.
3.  In another bowl, mix together crackers, flour, pepper, and half of salt.
4.  Then dip each piece of meat in the egg mixture, then in the flour mixture until completely covered.
5. Then place in the skillet and cook on medium, covered, until brown on both sides. Approx. 5-7 min. on each side.
6. Once the meat is cooked, take out of pan and place on a plate covered by a paper towel to drain some of the grease.
7. Meanwhile you will make the gravy.

* To make the gravy:

1. DO NOT throw out the left over flour or grease from earlier.
2. In pan, there should still be the grease you will then place the leftover flour in the grease and mix until the grease it dried up.
3. While that is taking place, put water with the bouillon cube and put in the microwave for 2 minutes, until the cube is dissolved.
4. Once the flour has dried the grease up, pour the water/bouillon cube mixture into the skillet, continuously stirring.
5. After 3-4 minutes, the water should have mixed with the flour and should have became a gravy mixture. 
6. Then turn the stove off, place the meat in the gravy and you are done!