Beef stroganoff

Beef Stroganoff

Recipe courtesy Paula Deen, 2008

544 Reviews

Total Time: 0 hours 45 minutes

Prep:

Cook:

0 hours 5 minutes

0 hours 40 minutes

Yield:

4 servings

Level:

Easy

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 pounds cubed round steak, cut into thin strips
• House Seasoning, recipe follows
• All-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 medium onion, sliced
• 8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced
• 1 (10 3/4-ounce) can beef broth
• 1 (10 3/4-ounce) can cream of mushroom soup
• Salt and black pepper
• 1 cup sour cream
• Cooked egg noodles

• House Seasoning:
• 1 cup salt
• 1/4 cup black pepper
• 1/4 cup garlic powder

Directions

Sprinkle the steak strips with House Seasoning to light cover them, and then dust with flour. In a large skillet, quickly brown them on both sides in the olive oil and butter. Remove the steak from the pan. Add the onion slices and mushrooms to the pan drippings. Saute for a few minutes, until the onion is tender. Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon flour. Put the steak back into the pan with the onion and mushrooms. Add the mushroom soup and beef broth. Cook over low heat for about 30 minutes, covered. Adjust seasoning to taste, adding salt and pepper, as needed. Stir in the sour cream the last few minutes, right before you serve. Serve over cooked noodles.

The NEW Chicken Broccoli Casserole. (our 100th post!)

I have been craving chicken broccoli casserole for months, but I just can't bring myself to make dinner with a can of soup mixed with mayonnaise :-/

Desperate times called for desperate measures and I created my own sauce in place of the Campbell's classic and made my own no-bake chicken casserole (as we call it, Ambyr Casserole).

4 Chicken breasts (cooked on the stove top, I usually cook in coconut oil.  It adds a nice flavor, too)
1-2 Heads of broccoli (depending on how much you like) steamed.
2 c. Rice (cooked)
1 c. Extra sharp white cheddar (sub with whatever, this is just my fave)

Hannah's Secret Sauce:

3 tbs butter
3 tbs flour
2 c. chicken broth
1 container greek-style yogurt

Melt butter in sauce pan on medium/high. Add flour and mix with a whisk for 2 minutes. Slowly add chicken broth (I pour it so that is slides down the side of the sauce pan and heats a little before hitting the flour/butter mixture).  While combining chicken broth, stir quickly.  Keep stirring until sauce thickens (it is like magic. I love this part). Once sauce is to desired consistency, take off heat, let sit for a minute, and then whisk in greek yogurt.  Voila!

Layer: Rice, cheese, sauce (while still hot, it will melt the cheese), chicken, and broccoli on top. Season with salt and pepper.  Pictures to come :-)

My go-to banana bread

After playing with many banana bread recipes, I found one that I kind of liked and changed it up a bit...

Mini Chip Banana Bread Recipe

• 1¾ c. + 2 Tbsp. unsifted flour
• 1½ c. granulated sugar
• ½ tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ¾ tsp. salt
• 1 – 1 ½ c. mini chocolate chips
• 1 c. mashed overripe bananas
• 2 large eggs
• 1/3 c. greek yogurt-- less 1 tsp
• 1 tsp. water (to mix with greek yogurt)
• ½ c. vegetable oil
• 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
• 1 tsp. pure almond extract

Preheat over to 350.

Grease and flour three mini loaf pans (or I do 1 mini and 1 large)

Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into large bowl. Stir in mini chocolate chips.

In a separate bowl, combine mashed bananas, eggs, yogurt/water mixture, coconut oil vanilla, and almond extract. Pour liquid ingredients into flour ingredients and stir until combined.

Divide batter among loaf pans and bake for 33-35 minutes for small, or appx 55 for large, or until deeply golden brown and toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.

Refrigerator Bran Muffins

(Aunt Gwen)

Soak and Cool: 2 c. Bran flakes and 2 cups boiling water

Cream in separate bowl: 1 c. shortening and 3 cups sugar

Add: ​4 eggs

​1 quart buttermilk

​soaked bran flakes

Sift and add to above mixture:​5 cups flour

​5 teaspoons soda

​1 teaspoon Salt

​4 cups All Bran

Mix until moist.  Bake at 400° for 20 min.  Keeps for 6-7 weeks in fridge.

Peach cobbler dump cake
Sooo easy and so good. A fun summer treat with some ice cream!

• 2 (16 ounce) cans peaches in heavy syrup
• 1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, or to taste
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
  2. Empty peaches into the bottom of one 9x13 inch pan. Cover with the dry cake mix and press down firmly. Cut butter into small pieces and place on top of cake mix. Sprinkle top with cinnamon.
  3. Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 45 minutes.
  Use cold butter and a grater to distribute butter evenly.

Yummy egg rolls

Egg rolls

Afton Twitchell

½ lb shrimp, chicken or crab or sausage (I use sausage meat)

½ head cabbage

1 green onions ( I use any onion equivalent)

½ lb bean sprouts (if canned drain them)

2 stalks celery, finely chopped

1 tsp salt (be careful soy and MSG are also salty if you use it)

½ teas sugar

½ teas soy sauce ( I use more and less salt)

½ tsp pepper

1pkg egg roll skins or wontong skins

Saute in small amount of oil, chopped Meat(no oil needed for sausage).  Remove from pan.  Leave a little grease in bottom of pan and sauté veggies and seasonings only til slightly wilted.  Rol about ¼ to 1/3 cup in egg roll skins .  Dip finger in water and run along edge of rolls to seal the skins.  When you roll you fold in the ends and roll.    Deep fry at 275 till broWn Makes 15 -20.

AMAZING Baked French Toast

Ingredients

1 cup of brown sugar

¾ cup butter or margarine

¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons light corn syrup

10-12 slices French bread

4 large eggs, lightly beaten

2 ½ cups half and half

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

¼ teaspoon salt

3 tablespoons sugar

1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon

¼ cup butter or margarine melted

You can add chopped walnuts on the bottom of the pan.  It would also be good with like dried cranberries or fresh blueberries on the bottom of the pan.

Directions

Combine first 3 ingredients in a medium saucepan.  Cook over medium heat stirring constantly for 5 minutes or until mixture is bubbly.  Pour syrup mixture evenly into a lightly greased 13x9x2 in baking dish.  Arrange bread slices over syrup.  Combine eggs and next 3 ingredients; stir well.  Gradually pour mixture over bread slices.  Cover and chill at least 8 hours.

Combine 3 tablespoons sugar and cinnamon; stir well.  Sprinkle evenly over soaked bread.  Drizzle ¼ cup melted butter over bread.  Bake, uncovered, at 350 for 45 to 50 (mine took almost 1 ½ hours, otherwise the bread was kinda soggy) minutes or until golden and bubbly