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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Lean Beef Guide

Buying Beef? Here is a guide to choosing the leanest cuts. The source is Mayo Clinic.

Lean beef (a 3.5 oz. serving will contain less than 10 grams of fat, 4.5 grams of saturated fat, and 95 milligrams of cholesterol):

cuts:

round steak
95% lean ground beef
chuck shoulder roast
arm pot roast
shoulder steak
strip steak
tenderloin steak
t-bone steak

Extra Lean Beef: (A 3.5 oz. serving will contain less than 5 grams of total fat, 2 grams of saturated fat, and 95 milligrams of cholesterol).

cuts:

eye of round roast
top round steak
mock tender steak
bottom round roast
top sirloin steak

Monday, January 11, 2010

James Meyer's Stroganoff

Morgan has been an admirer of Chef James for years. She used to come home from Bailey's house and beg me to make whatever she had had for dinner that day at the Meyer House. I've tried, I really have, but I can never quite measure up to James! Here is his famous stroganoff. Thanks James!

round steak

6 strips of bacon

onion slices

garlic salt

2 cans cream of mushroom soup

2 cups (or 16 ounces) sour cream

1/4 cup ketchup

4 teaspoon worcestershire sauce

rice or noodles

Cut bacon strips into small pieces and fry. Cut round steak into strips. Brown in bacon grease, drain fat. Add onions and garlic salt. Combine soup, sour cream, ketchup and worcestershire sauce. Add to browned round steak. Add bacon and heat through. Serve over noodles or rice.

So here's the story. My recipe situation is a disaster. I have an old recipe box that is stuffed full of recipes I've gathered through the years. The best method for finding a recipe is to dump it out on the counter, haphazardly rummage through it, and hope I'm lucky enough to chance upon the recipe I'm looking for. Most likely, it doesn't exist. I have had bad luck with my recipes, to put it nicely. I won't go into all the details, but I'll give you the worst example. I finally started to get organized with my recipes when Worthy gave me a laptop for Christmas a few years back. After diligently typing them into the computer, I would throw the wrinkled, folded, scribbled (and dribbled) on recipe into the trash. Well, some mean person stole my laptop out of our car in the mall parking lot. I lost a lot of things, including my recipes.

So since then I've done a lot of crying, gnashing of teeth, and renting of clothing. And calling people to beg for their recipes. And searching the internet. The problem is, I don't have a good system for keeping the good ones. I often print them off the internet, then put them, folded, into the black hole that is my recipe file. Or I don't print them at all, thinking I can always search for them again. But of course when I search for them again I can't remember which one I used originally. I'm also famous for calling someone, scribbling a recipe on whatever is available (a wrinkled receipt, my kids homework, a bubble gum wrapper) with whatever is available (a crayon, a thick magic marker, a pen with no ink). Then I have to call them back months later. It's a mess!!!

So I have decided to start a new blog, mostly for myself, to organize my recipes. Whenever I find a good recipe I'll add it to this blog, and then I'll be able to find it when I need it. And maybe some of you will be able to benefit from it, too. And if some mean person steals my computer, or if it (heaven forbid) crashes, my recipes will be safe in cyberspace.

I'm notorious for stealing recipes, so I'll try my best to give credit where credit is due. Feel free to steal them, in return, from me.

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Lean Beef Guide

Monday, January 11, 2010

James Meyer's Stroganoff

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