Kitchen

[grandma r]

As far back as I can remember it's always been gravy.

[Pooky1]

My mom was Italian and she always said she was making a gravy. I say sauce . whatever its called.its delicious. One of my favorites.

[shoesnbags]

In New Orleans when I was growing up it was called "red gravy" whether you were Italian or not.  I suspect that the younger generation now calls it sauce, but I still see "red gravy" on neighborhood restaurant menus. 

[mom2four0418]

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@Rosebud816 wrote:

I have never heard a real italian call their sauce gravy!  One of the hosts that claims to be italian claims they do call it gravy!

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My mother was born in Italy so my family is "real Italian." We say gravy, and we say sauce.

[January121]

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@Carmie wrote:

I am Italian and grew up in an Italian neighborhood, went to an Italian grade school and went to an Italian church.  

It was always sauce.  I never heard tomato sauce called gravy until I was an adult and heard the term while watching a movie.

To me, gravy is made from pan meat drippings with flour or corn starch. I live in south central PA.

It must be a regional term.  In the Italian language it is called Salsa de pomodoro...how anyone got gravy out of that beats me.

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@Carmie .. I am 100% ITALIAN & it’s called SAUCE & never gravy !!!

[January121]

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@PA Mom-mom wrote:

@Rosebud816  I think it depends what part of the country you come from. I've heard both. Our neighbors were from north Jersey, and they called it gravy. No one ever got pugilistic over it though. What's with that? Jane needs to calm down!

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@PA Mom-mom  ... 😂🤣 ... I agree with you that Jane needs to calm down .... if Jane T was the one who said it you can be sure she hasn’t got a clue about anything italian .... she only refers to herself as italian if it’s too her benefit .... she might be half italian but, she 100% favors her other half.

[January121]

IT’s SAUCE SAUCE SAUCE!!!!! ..... yum, yum, gimme some!!!!! 😉🙃

[PA Mom-mom]

@January121  I appreciate Jane's attachment to both sides of her heritage. I just never considered sauce vs. gravy to be fightin' words. 

[deepwaterdotter]

This recipe comes from an ex-boyfriend's grandmother.  She served it every Sunday, thus it is called "Italian Sunday Gravy".  It is made in a slow cooker:

1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil

2 lbs Italian sausage

2 onions, chopped

6-oz. can tomato paste

1/4 cup minced garlic

2 tsp dried oregano

1/2 cup red wine

28-oz. can diced tomatoes, drained

28-oz can tomato puree

2 lbs country-style pork ribs (with bones left in for flavor)

1 1/2 lb flank steak

Heat oil in Dutch oven.  Brown sausage and place in slow cooker.

Cook onions in fat left in Dutch oven until soft.  Stir in tomato paste, wine, garlic, and oregano for a minute, then pour into slow cooker.  Stir tomatoes and puree into slow cooker.

Sprinkle pork ribs and flank steak with salt and pepper, then place in slow cooker.  Cover and cook on low for 10 hours.

Shred ribs and steak into smaller pieces.  Cut sausages in half.

Skim fat from surface of sauce.  Stir meat back into sauce.

[skatting44]

Never heard of this . Am married to an Italian  whose Grandparents  were 100% Italian who emigrated from southern  Italy  who never referred to sauce as gravy .  Spent yrs in New Jersey  with family  and  never heard of  sauce called gravy . Have only referred to it as marinara  or pomodoro sauce .