CEiMB: Beef Stroganoff with Green Beans and Grainy Mustard

      The recipe chosen this past week for CEiMB, using Ellie Krieger's book, So Easy, was Beef Stroganoff with Green Beans and Grainy Mustard chosen by Liz of The Not So Skinny Kitchen.  You can find the recipe on pages 120-121 of the book, on Liz's post, or here. 

      Another Ellie hit at our house, especially with beef lovers Mark and Matt.  (I really should have photographed Matt's plate with a gigantic portion of this and then the empty plate when he finished to show you just how good he thought this was!) 

      I followed the recipe exactly, except people were hungry, so there was no parsley sprinkled on top...I had to just fill the plates and serve it, no time for fancy stuff. 

      The recipe has easy-to-find ingredients and goes together fairly quickly, especially if you cut, chop, and measure everything before you begin cooking.  Honestly, switching out the sour cream for yogurt was an inspired idea as it was creamy and a little tangy (not exactly like sour cream, but pretty darn close).  

      When I make it again, I will reduce the beef broth from 2 cups to 1 cup and the wine from a half cup to a quarter cup as there was just a little too much liquid, not enough simmering time to evaporate more of it so that the sauce wouldn't be quite so thin.  I ended up straining off about a cup of the sauce before serving it so it wouldn't drown the noodles, and there was still plenty of sauce. 

      We all enjoyed the green beans with mustard, so simple, just toss the steamed green beans in a couple of teaspoons of whole grain mustard and serve, delicious! 

      Next week's assignment is Beef Taco Salad with Chunky Tomato Dressing from Ellie's book So Easy, on page 77, chosen by Peggy of Pantry Revisited.  You can find the CEiMB blogroll here.