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April 29, 2021Updated: April 29, 2021 6:23 p.m. “The birthplace of chicken-fried steak” celebrated the 11th annual Chicken Fried Steak Festival last weekend at Forrest Park. Midlanders cutting through the west side of Lamesa on State Highway 137 on the way to Lubbock might have noticed Forrest Park as they entered the city, but this week, the park was home to those paying homage to the breaded meat fried in a large skillet Chicken Fry Run Race Description
Chicken Fry Run coincides with the Lamesa Chicken Fried Steak Festival (CFSF) and supports the nonprofit Lamesa Adoptables Pets. Race Starts at 9:00AM Saturday, April 24, in Forrest Park on South 9th and South Houston Ave. in Lamesa. For more info on the Festival events go to: https://www.facebook.com/Chickenfriedsteakfestival/?ref=page_internal Get ready for the Chicken Fry RunShare this Lamesa Race
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Crispy breading and creamy gravy — just a few things you can look forward to on October 26, National Chicken Fried Steak Day. It’s a Southern cuisine classic. So, break out your deep fryer, get your gravy ladle ready and get excited to have a full belly of Southern fried goodness! It seems like big things always happen in Texas! This includes celebrating that guilty pleasure, chicken fried steak, which is said to be the result of a mixup in a fried chicken versus steak food order in 1911. But first the chicken fried basics. Chicken fried steak is simply described as a thin, round cut of beef which you bread and fry. Most folks serve it up with mashed potatoes and cream gravy. Seems simple enough and yet, there’s a whole story behind a dish that’s worthy of genuflection.One of the reasons for chicken fried steak’s popularity certainly stems from the great publicity it generated. Whether you call it chicken fried steak, pan fried steak or country fried steak; an early mention of this dish allegedly appears in 1924. Writer A.L. Wyman describes the dish in the “Los Angeles Times” as ”beef steak rolled in flour, fried in a pan, and served with country gravy being poured on a hot platter and the fried steak placed over it.” Later recipes show up in publications like the “Winnipeg Free Press” in 1936 and the “Household Searchlight Recipe Book” in 1949. Hungry yet?But it’s really in Texas where this carnivore’s delight gains popularity with three different regional versions of chicken fried steak. The East Texas version dips the meat in egg followed by flour. In Central Texas, bread crumbs replace flour and in West Texas, there’s no egg-dipping at all, according to a former Texas food critic. (It’s tough to write about this on an empty stomach!)By 2011, Lamesa, Texas launched its “Lamesa Original Chicken-Fried Festival” in commemoration of the chicken fried steak centennial. Today, we crown it the fore-runner of the current National Chicken Fried Steak Day. Whatever…let’s eat! National Chicken Fried Steak Day timeline1911 Chicken fried accident? Jimmy Don Perkins, a short-order cook in Lamesa, Texas, accidentally creates chicken fried steak by mixing up a chicken order and a steak order (or so one of the stories go). 1924 Chicken fried steak recipe in print for the first time The Los Angeles Times printed a recipe for chicken fried steak. 1988 Chicken fried steak became an official meal Oklahoma made chicken fried steak — among other dishes — part of its official state meal. 2011 Celebrating a centennial anniversary The “Lamesa Original Chicken Fried Festival,” an inaugural celebration in Lamesa, Texas, marked 100 years since the recipe was invented there. National Chicken Fried Steak Day FAQsWhy is it called chicken fried steak when it’s not made of chicken?The name refers to how the steak is cooked since, depending on the recipe, the steak is treated similar to cooking fried chicken with a flour, bread crumbs or batter coating. What is the difference between country fried vs. chicken fried steak?Although the two recipes are very similar, country fried steak is cooked with a flour coating and served with a deep brown gravy while chicken fried steak is dipped in egg, fried and accompanied with a cream gravy on top and mashed potatoes on the side. What part of the cow does the steak for chicken fried steak come from?The beef usually comes from the round, is pounded very thin and either dipped in batter or dusted in flour, then fried. National Chicken Fried Steak Day Activities
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