I went to the book store looking for a slow cooker cook book. I was looking for something that used normal every day ingredients and bingo I think I’ve found it.
Now I should tell you I am NOT an experienced slow cooker ‘chef’. I use my slow cooker for pot roast or to cook a whole chicken when I want to make chicken pot pies. So my goal in getting this cook book is to use my slow cooker a lot more; easy, everyday ingredients and tasty meals when I get home from work. I think this will cut down on the time I have to spend cooking and cleaning when I get home.
So this cook book is called Six Ingredients or Less and it states quick and easy recipes using just 6 ingredients or less, slow cooker. I thumb through it and…eureka I have found it!
Why don’t I just look on the internet? Well I work 9 hour days Monday – Thursday and can’t take my lap top to surf the net. Plus I love reading cook books!
Well I looked at a few recipes and thought I’d start off with ground beef stroganoff, who doesn’t like stroganoff???
The recipe called for ground beef, onion, canned slice mushrooms, beef broth, sour cream and a small amount of flour. The disappointing part of this recipe is it calls for everything to be done on the stove top and then put in the slow cooker for 4 hours. If it’s cooked and hot why do I need to cook it for 4 more hours? I did not notice a difference in the taste after the 4 hours. The other issue was that it had me adding the flour to the beef broth and sour cream and so it stayed kind of lumpy. I think I should have added it to the beef broth and then added the sour cream.
Thumbs down on this recipe……but I will try it again and make some changes.
Do you have a slow cooker recipe for stroganoff? Please share!
Hey cuz, question, when your blogging can you actually put the recipe in the blog so us other creative cookers can give it a go around and mix it up. Would be easier for us to make suggestions. Have you tried the "because my ma's an okie casseorle" yet?
ReplyDeleteCopy write laws prevent me from posting the actual recipe. But when I retry it I'm going to do 2 lbs burger, 1 chopped onion, 1 cup of beef broth and a whole container of the sour cream that looks like a cow, lol, and a cup of fresh sliced mushrooms instead of canned. And I am going to add 1/4 cup flour to the broth before I add the sour cream. I'm wondering how it would be if I used half cream cheese half sour cream.....hmmmm
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