Want a better stroganoff?
Here's the tip - ignore every cookbook ever written and grill the steak before slicing it thin and putting it into the sauce. I've been doing this for a while now and it ends up with seconds (and thirds) being requested from 5/6 of the eaters (and anything that you can cook that satisfies 83.333% of the people at the table is something to be repeated :o).
You heard it here first.
4 comments:
Jim,
I have no cause to doubt your cooking expertise--I'm sure it's amazing but I bet I'd still be a hard sell on stroganoff. I have some inner healing issues to work out with stroganoff. It was the dish my Hungarian mom made the most that I liked the least. :) She used ground beef, though.
I like the idea of grilling the meat, anyhow. :)
Jeff,
Stop, stop, stop...You're HUNGARIAN? Oh, boy, howdy! Now I MUST come to Tulsa again! Hungarians have the true secret to all things dessert...I had a Hungarian friend in Kansas City a lifetime ago, and his mom (they came over in 1957 - 'nuff said) made the single best sweets I've ever had in my life. Period. It was like Indian or Thai cooking, only in desserts - flavors that my tongue had never experienced together before, this time in desserts. Wow. My taste-memory remembers those torts and cookies and candies across two decades.
That said...What was she thinking about making Stroganoff from ground beef (other than frugality?) You MUST read the Frugal Gourmet's "Food of Our Immigrant Ancestors" to reclaim Stroganoff as the food of czars it once was!
only a geek: 83.333%
Tina,
I am what I am. :o)
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