Beef Stroganoff

Recipe found in Don't Panic, Dinner's in the Freezer, pg 126.
2 lbs sirloin steak
1 lb fresh mushrooms sliced
1 cup onion
1/4 cup butter
2- 10.5 oz cans beef bouillon
1/4 cup ketchup
2 small cloves garlic, crushed
2 tsp salt
1/3 cup flour
2 cups sour cream

Cut meat into bite size pieces. In a skillet, cook and stir mushrooms and onion in butter until onion is tender. Remove mushrooms and onion. In the same skillet, brown meat lightly on both sides. Set aside 3/4 cup bouillon; add remaining bouillon, ketchup, garlic and salt to skillet. Stir to mix. Cover and simmer 15 minutes. Blend reserved bouillon and flour; stir into meat mixture. Add mushrooms and onion. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil one minute. Stir in sour cream and heat, but do not allow to boil. Freeze using the freezer bag method.

Serving day: Thaw completely and warm in sauce pan until heated through. Do not allow stroganoff to boil when heating. Server over rice and noodles. If sauce appears too thin, thicken by mixing flour with some of the sauce and adding to mixture while heating.


I order to cool the stroganoff as quickly as possible, I filled a Ziploc of ice and pushed it down into the center stirring frequently. I normally freeze a large water bottle (not the cheap bottled water bottles) and put it in the sauce, but I forgot this time around. The ice bag was slower but still worked.

My First Cooking Day Since the Twins

Our freezer has hit that depressingly empty point where there is little left to pull out of it for dinner. We have eaten up almost everything I froze in preparation for the twins. I decided it was time to start over and made two recipes this weekend. The kids were all amazingly cooperative, and I was able make both recipes yesterday. They were all super tired or Ryan drugged them because they all slept a big chuck of the day. Claire took a four hour nap. I can't remember when she last did that.

I made four batches of my standard lasagna recipe (although assembled them in one 9x13 and six 8x8's). I also made a triple batch of Beef Stroganoff from Don't Panic, Dinner's in the Freezer. I haven't made this recipe before, but my sister highly recommended it, and I am not sorry I made a large batch. It is really pretty fabulous. Here are a couple pictures from this round. I took several pictures of my lasagna process and posted those under my lasagna recipe I listed a while back.

This is how things look as I'm planning everything out. I pull out any cookbooks I'm using. I also now use my laptop to look up my recipes on this blog. It's turned out to be really helpful to have my favorite recipes posted here. I start making lists as to what I need for each recipe and check my pantry for what I already have.
The clean-up crew. She can have anything that falls on the floor. She really enjoys her job.

My finished lasagna. Yum.