Old Mother Ashby wrote:

You've obviously done a great job with your offspring, and the BF is a
man of discriminating taste :-)

I think so too - IF he lasts the distance...

Just one little nit to pick. Doesn't beef stroganoff usually have
mushrooms in it?
christine

MY strog recipe has mushrooms, but this is Jess' recipe - she loathes
mushys.
Silly, silly girl!

My version calls for 5 large field mushrooms, diced or minced and added
with the onions. In my opinion, no stroganoff is complete without them.
Jess has very different mores on this subject.
hehehehehe

(used to pulse mushrooms, zucchini, squash etc and add that to my
dishes, so the kids didn't know the difference. Sadly Jess is now able
to 'see' the difference. Still ate my strog w/mushies at home, but
would rather walk over hot coals than have them in HER strog! ROFLMAO)

LadyJane
--
"Never trust a skinny cook!"

LadyJane wrote:
About four weeks ago our daughter moved out of home and into a rented
house she's co-habiting with her boyfriend of five years.
The last few weeks have been a trial - having to remeber to cook for
only three, not four - and reassessing vegetable quantities, after
being in 'auto mode' for the last 20 odd years! Inevitably there were a
few (read many) nights when a certain person had imbibed a little too
much Aussie red and we ended up with a mountain of food, which saw
judicious reheating the next day for AJ (son) who somehow always is on
the lookout for something specacular and edible.

Thanks for sharing your experience. Our youngest left the nest three
weeks ago to move 3000 miles away to find a job. He's 21 and we'd been
lucky to have him with us this long as he attended community college in
our town. The two oldest had left right after high school to go to
university and only returned a couple of times for the summer.
Actually, the oldest never even made the move here with us since we
moved only 6 weeks before she'd have had to return to the same town for
university -- we said goodbye at her apartment door. Watching them
leave is not 1/2 as hard as leaving them behind (oh the guilt!!)

I miss his weird sense of humor, his emptying the dishwasher, his good
natured smile. What I don't miss is his picky food habits. What I'm
relishing is not having to wonder what to cook based on his food
preferences. I can serve curry 4 times a week and hubby and I are
happy.

Gabby

On 11 Jul 2006 01:25:03 -0700, "LadyJane"
wrote:

MY strog recipe has mushrooms, but this is Jess' recipe - she loathes
mushys.

Jess is a very wise woman. EG

Carol

"LadyJane" snip
At least she and the BF know how to cook from scratch - I must have
done something right!
hehehe

LadyJane
--
"Never trust a skinny cook!"
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Woo-hoo! I'm certain you taught her well!

--
Cyndi (again)