On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:36:10 -0500, Doris Night
> wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 22:01:12 -0800, sf > wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:39:24 -0500, jmcquown >
> >wrote:
> >
> >> My mother rarely made beef stroganoff but when she did it was for
> >> special occasions. I've posted the recipe before, not going to bother
> >> again. She always used a very good cut of beef. Tenderloin, actually.
> >> Partially frozen and very thinly sliced.
> >
> >I would never do that to decent beef.
>
> I buy whole tenderloins (7-8 pounds) when they are on special and cut
> them up into steaks. You end up with a fair amount of trimmings, and I
> freeze these in 8-10 ounce portions in Ziploc bags. They get used for
> stuff like stroganoff or even stew.
>
> When we used to have the 2 big dogs, I'd also save all of the
> silverskin and other non-edible crap, then fry it up and freeze in
> small portions. That was a real treat for them.
>
> When you're paying ~$10/pound for the stuff, you don't want to waste
> any.

Glad you can do it, but I don't have that kind of freezer space.


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