[Rokinronda]

My 100% Italian grandmother always made the Sunday gravy (tomato) with pork, beef, veal, braccioli, meatballs, and sausauge, etc...........
do you say gravy OR
do call it sauce??


GRAVY here!! LOL

[ejp52]

Sauce,gravy is for roast beef.

[Blondie]

We saucers are winning...the gravy boaters are home making gravy (for the roast beef)

[Just Susan]

With not an ounce of Italian in me anywhere, me and mine call it sauce. Gravy has no tomatoes. But if you're making it Rhonda, I will eat it whatever it is called.

[chelsea24]

I grew up in a strong Italian atmosphere and it was definitely called gravy!
Yummmmmm! Great for bread dipping right out of the pot!


p.s. Rhonda! Your avatar is hysterical!

[Rokinronda]

I should have specified.....only italians can answer, now all the anglo-saxon sauciers should be disqualified!!! LOL
Time to make the gravy!!

[Blondie]

hey...I can spell Italy, and I have some Italian friends...that should count.

[TallerTrees]

It's sauce. I had never heard the term "gravy" until an Amerigani (as my grandmother pronounced it) told me that.

I spent time in Italy and never did I hear the term "gravy." So there you have it -- SAUCE enjoy

[Shirleevee]

All Italian and Italian Americans in Staten Island and Brooklyn call it, Gravy".

My family cruised here on the boat.........lol

[Shirleevee]

http://www.recipezaar.com/Sunday-Gra...eatballs-73937

http://almostitalian.com/sunday-gravy/

Very interesting..........my family docked in Little Italy in NYC........read above.

[Rokinronda]

Shirl!!!! Thanks for some facts! mangia!!!!

[KathieI]

Sorry guys, 100% Bronx-born Italian and ITS CALLED:

'GRAVY'

And,...... Its not Pasta, its

MACARONI

[JohnnyM]

Hey Rokin, I grew up in the Bronx, I am 110% Sicilian and the word used by my Grandmother and Grandfather who were from Sicily was GRAVY.

[ConeyIsBabe]

Originally Posted by Rokinronda

My 100% Italian grandmother always made the Sunday gravy (tomato) with pork, beef, veal, braccioli, meatballs, and sausauge, etc...........
do you say gravy OR
do call it sauce??


GRAVY here!! LOL

I don't care what it's called............. I just want your 100% Italian Grandmother's recipe ! please

[KathieI]

OK, I have 4 people visiting at my house right now, and all 4 vote for "GRAVY"...... The definitive description is:

Gravy is made with meat
Sauce is made without meat......

i.e., Marinara Sauce vs. Gravy with meat.... got it...