Beef Stroganoff

An easy-to-follow recipe for classic Beef Stroganoff with tender strips of steak, sliced mushrooms and sauteed onions in a velvety sauce made with real sour cream.

You know how there are certain favorite recipes that you associate with people? Like, when I think of chicken and dumplings, I think of my Nanny. And how I’d walk into her house and there would be strips of pastry covering every surface of her kitchen and dining room and I knew it meant she was cooking my favorite – her chicken and dumplings!

Or when I think of the best biscuits ever made in the history of the world I think of my Aunt June and how she could expertly cut shortening into a plastic bowl of flour, pour in a little milk, work her hands like some sort of magician and 20 minutes later we’d have a pan of biscuits so perfect nothing has ever compared.

Cinnamon rolls make me think of Granddad. Stewed beef and rice: Daddy. A Low Country shrimp boil: Mama.

Or maybe this is all just a testament to how long I’ve been obsessed with delicious food! Ha!

Well, when I think of Beef Stroganoff, I think of Uncle Tyrone. It was his specialty and he was goooooood at it! Growing up, we often spent Saturday evenings with my various aunts and uncles, alternating supper at their houses or ours.

When Mama would tell me we were going to Uncle Tyrone’s to eat Beef Stroganoff, my heart would smile because it was always so delicious and he only made it once a year or so, so it was a big deal!

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