{"id":4973,"date":"2009-07-17T14:19:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T19:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2025-07-24T23:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:19:13","slug":"comfort-food-beef-stroganoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/comfort-food-beef-stroganoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Comfort food: Beef stroganoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got a request for my recipe for beef stroganoff, so I\u2019m going to add a new category of comfort food. These are adapted from recipes my mother used, the food I grew up on and while some of it\u2019s expensive to make, some of it\u2019s not. It\u2019s not fancy. The reason I don\u2019t cook is that my mother made everything from scratch (even egg noodles) and so it wouldn\u2019t occur to me to go get, say, a jar of Ragu for spaghetti sauce (and the one time I did I gagged). However, when I do cook, I cook from scratch.<\/p>\n

I very rarely measure anything unless I\u2019m baking, so you\u2019ll have to adjust for your own tastes. I have tried this stroganoff with stew meat or cutting up a cheap steak (say, chuck), but I don\u2019t like it that way, as the flavors don\u2019t blend as well. Liberal use of pepper is the key to a good batch of stroganoff.<\/p>\n

The measurements for this beef stroganoff are written per 1 pound of hamburger.<\/p>\n

\n1 pound hamburger
\n1 diced medium yellow onion (Get one of these gizmos<\/a>.)
\nminced garlic (I buy it in the jars, usually in produce section by the onions.)
\nsalt to taste
\ncoarse-ground black pepper to taste, maybe 2 tsp
\nparsley to taste, maybe 1 Tb of dried
\n1 to 2 4-ounce cans of mushroom stems and pieces, drained<\/div>\n

Cook up the hamburger with all the above ingredients on medium high heat, enough to barely cook the meat and make the onions translucent. Stir well, and let it simmer for about 10 minutes to let the flavors settle in. Drain, put it back in the pan, and put it back on the stove.<\/p>\n

Into the drained meat, stir in (very well):<\/p>\n

1 can cream of chicken soup<\/div>\n

Let that simmer on low for about 15 minutes. While that\u2019s cooking, cook up:<\/p>\n

egg noodles<\/div>\n

Remove the stroganoff from the heat. Add:<\/p>\n

8 oz sour cream<\/div>\n

Stir it in well and let the whole thing sit for about 10 minutes.
\nDrain your egg noodles and put them on a plate.
\nThen top with the stroganoff mixture.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it. Only takes me about 1\/2 hour, no matter how much I make, and I make it in batches of about 5 pounds of hamburger. It never lasts long enough to be able to freeze any of it, but it is freezable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got a request for my recipe for beef stroganoff, so I\u2019m going to add a new category of comfort food. These are adapted from recipes my mother used, the food I grew up on and while some of it\u2019s expensive to make, some of it\u2019s not. It\u2019s not fancy. The reason I don\u2019t cook is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4973"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14980,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions\/14980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}