This recipe was another replacement for a staple for me growing up: the pre-packaged beef stroganoff.
1 pound lean ground beef
1/2 cup onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1 teaspoon beef bouillon
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
4 ounces mushroom stems and pieces, drained
1 cup water
1 cup sour cream
2 cups noodles or rice, cooked
3 tablespoons unbleached flour
Directions:
Cook and stir the meat, onion, and garlic in a large skillet until the meat [...]
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I attempted a split pea soup nearly a year ago with awful results. There wasn’t enough liquid and I didn’t have an immersion blender. It was disastrous, but my friends choked it down.
Now, I have a new recipe, an immersion blender, and pretty green soup! Friends, you can come back now…
Recipe link: Split Pea Soup (I [...]
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I don’t know about your mother, but this is not my mother’s goulash. Goulash at home consisted of No Yolk egg noodles, ground beef, tomato sauce, and maybe a vegetable like peas or corn and some onion. That was it.
This goulash recipe from Smitten Kitchen and Gourmet magazine might involve more ingredients and more work, [...]
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What’s not to love in this Four Cheese Baked Penne from Ellie Krieger? Mozzarella, ricotta, cottage cheese, Parmesan cheese, tomatoes, onion, garlic…the list goes on and on.
It takes some prep work to get this dish ready to bake, which made it a fun Saturday evening project. However, this recipe would be doable on a weeknight [...]
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I enjoy Alton Brown’s TV show Good Eats, but the recipes intimidate me, even when they shouldn’t. Maybe it’s because Alton is so smart and precise? I don’t know. At any rate, I’ve been doing enough successful cooking lately that I had the confidence to attempt Good Eats Meatloaf.
My confidence has not been shattered (yet). [...]
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We wanted to try something a little different than the typical can of barbecue mixture and pound of ground beef for our barbecue sandwiches. I found this recipe in one of the many recipe files that I keep on my computer. The recipe calls for using a slow cooker and letting the meat cook for several hours but we [...]
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This recipe comes from my mother-in-law. We had it once with them and I have been craving it ever since. The recipe is so much easier than I thought it would be. It only took about 30 minutes to make the entire meal. Perfect for a week night meal and best of all there are [...]
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On the list of things Mark Bittman has taught me to make, you can now add Baked Ziti.
Like the recipe states, this is basically a short-cut lasagna with less hassle. The most involved part of the recipe is getting all the ingredients ready to go. I made this on a weeknight and would do so [...]
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The recipe was a necessity when I decided to make Crab Cakes. I wanted to try a sauce that I hadn’t used before. I have been fascinated with aioli for some time and this was my first attempt at it. I got out the food processor and the entire recipe took about two minutes to [...]
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The IFA told me make this soup, so I did.
And I only messed it up a little bit by putting in the fresh basil before simmering instead of after. (I fished it out after an hour or so of thinking about fishing it out.) Also, I don’t have an immersion blender (Santa, if you’re reading [...]
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