Saturday, August 11, 2012

last week's menu


  • monday - beef o' bradys (i had a late meeting) :)
  • tuesday - calzones!  i cheat and get the refrigerated pizza dough from the deli at publix.  definitely falls into my much loved "quick, easy and tasty" category :)
  • wednesday - i cannot remember!  seems like we went out...
  • thursday - summer squash and corn chowder with spring salad with grapes and pistachio crusted goat cheese - one of my personal favorites but having soup for dinner tends to depress nate :)  he liked the salad though, it was super easy and the little crusted goat cheese makes it look super fancy :)  it would be a good one for company!
  • friday - something like beef stroganoff with peas-- a family favorite :)  recipe below!



Ingredients

  • 2 cans Campell’s cream of mushroom soup (the normal stuff!  not the healthy request or reduced sodium....trust me!)
  • 1 lb ground beef (lean) 
  • 8 oz fresh mushrooms (regular or portabella) 
  • ½ a medium size onion, diced small 
  • Fresh parsley, chopped (optional, for color) 
  • 1 garlic clove 
  • ¼- ½ cup reduced fat sour cream 
  • Splash of milk (or more!) 
  • Egg noodles 
  • Salt, pepper to taste 


Directions

  1. Sauté onions, set aside. (or if you're feeling lazy  like I often am, just thrown them in near the end of browning the beef)
  2. In a saucepan on medium, brown ground beef, drain off any fat (it will make the sauce too thin). 
  3. Once mostly done, add in mushrooms, onion and garlic, salt/pepper. 
  4. Continue cooking until mushrooms look done. 
  5. Start noodles, cook according to package. 
  6. Add cans of cream of mushroom soup to saucepan, mix well. Add a splash of milk or more to get desired consistency for the sauce. 
  7. Just before serving add sour cream (to taste, I add a couple of spoonfuls at a time) and fresh parsley to sauce, mix well. Serve sauce over egg noodles.

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