Farm Kitchen Chronicles: Chicken-Fried Steak with Potato-Rutabaga Mash
I'm embarrassed to say I was inspired by a TikTok video for this recipe.
I have been off social media for a while. I come on in spurts (I think it has been close to a year since my last Instagram post?), which is bad for a Substack writer, since as a—gag—”content creator”, I am supposed to be posting all of the time. I mean, maybe eventually I will, when I have farm animals again or do whatever it is we are doing this season. But for now, I am not very good at this whole <waves hands wildly> “social media thing”.
I did, however, start looking at the horrors of TikTok, first because River wants an account, and I am sort of looking into doing TikTok cooking vids (CookTok?), but I had barely glanced at it only to see you have to really sift through some truly pointless things! Although we did learn one TikTok dance (River and I do it together, since Huck and Alex refuse), I have also witnessed some mind-blowing vapidity. I don’t need to detail any videos, but just know that I watched one about a farm in the south, and it mentioned cold beer, tator tots and chicken-fried steak. This is where TikTok truly helped me this week; all I could think about was how good chicken-fried steak sounded.