Originally Posted by
Fragola
Threw together an ad hoc beef stroganoff using lean organic ground beef, double the amount of mushrooms to use up the last of a package, and subbed in bow tie pasta because no egg noodles on hand. Enough left over for a few lunches and tastes much better than the first time I "made" stroganoff using Hamburger Helper.
When I was a child, my mother used to make a version of beef stroganoff that wasn't Hamburger Helper, and it wasn't bad.