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Struggle Stroganoff
A few weeks ago I threw in an aside about cooking ground beef in the slow cooker (last paragraph). Highly recommend this, if only to make this dinner so much easier.
Struggle Stroganoff
ingredients:
- cooked ground beef from the freezer
- egg noodles
- brown gravy
My process:
-take half a package of cooked ground beef from the freezer, and break it up onto a saucepan with lots of water. cover and heat to boiling - the goal is to get the meat un-frozen and hot
- realize it'd be stupid to dump out that near-boiling water only to have to get another pot going for the noodles, so you grab the slotted spoon and scoop out as much of the meat as the spoon holes will grab.
- add a bit more water to the pot, bring it back to a boil, and add the egg noodles, cooking to desired doneness. drain
- in a separate, smaller pot, mix up the brown gravy mix and water, and cook as directed. Alternately, heat up a jar of prepared brown gravy.
-in your bowl, spoon in some noodles, then ground beef, and top with gravy. devour.
if mushrooms are your thing, use them. dump them and the beef into the gravy. add peas. whatever floats your boat. Last time I made this, i used SOS mix, diluted, which tasted good but was much too runny.
next time, I may just cook the meat and noodles together while the gravy happens. Or I'll get ambitious and prep noodles and freeze, so the whole mess is nearly a microwave meal.
Struggle Stroganoff
ingredients:
- cooked ground beef from the freezer
- egg noodles
- brown gravy
My process:
-take half a package of cooked ground beef from the freezer, and break it up onto a saucepan with lots of water. cover and heat to boiling - the goal is to get the meat un-frozen and hot
- realize it'd be stupid to dump out that near-boiling water only to have to get another pot going for the noodles, so you grab the slotted spoon and scoop out as much of the meat as the spoon holes will grab.
- add a bit more water to the pot, bring it back to a boil, and add the egg noodles, cooking to desired doneness. drain
- in a separate, smaller pot, mix up the brown gravy mix and water, and cook as directed. Alternately, heat up a jar of prepared brown gravy.
-in your bowl, spoon in some noodles, then ground beef, and top with gravy. devour.
if mushrooms are your thing, use them. dump them and the beef into the gravy. add peas. whatever floats your boat. Last time I made this, i used SOS mix, diluted, which tasted good but was much too runny.
next time, I may just cook the meat and noodles together while the gravy happens. Or I'll get ambitious and prep noodles and freeze, so the whole mess is nearly a microwave meal.