stroganoff the record

Well, it certainly has been a while now, hasn't it. I think that I am going on a couple of weeks here without a post, so I will try and do a makeshift one until my next day off. Sort of getting used to cooking on the beast (that is now fully functional, thanks to some internet research:). however, we did just buy a sweet new frigidaire gas range/oven, that will take it's place as soon as we start the remodel. I'm pretty excited about it, it's been a long time since I've had gas at home (although wifeshow will heartily disagree:).

I have a lot of pics that I haven't posted lately, so the two above are from different weeks. No, we haven't just been beefing around, I have just been a little lax in my postings. the first beef treat was smoked beef ribs. I had a little tip from my friend "Z" to try when smoking stuff. He was claiming that his favorite way to season stuff he smokes is just to rub it with mustard and then apply some tony chachere's creole seasoning. I was a little reticent to try it because I thought it might be too mustardy, but you actually don't taste it at all. It ends up just being a really classic smokey flavor. totally recommends it.

the other pic was bistro style beefstro. yeah, that's right, I play with words. I hadn't had stroganoff in a long time and thought I had some good ideas about how to make it tasty. I used some salt and pepped sirloin and seared it on both sides and then set it aside. Then added a diced onion, garlic clove, fresh rosemary, thyme, marjoram, and parsley. let that saute in olive oil for a while and then added some healthy splashes of bourbon and torched it. in went a can of beef broth, the beef, and some reconstituted wild mushrooms and just let it simmer for about an hour. I ended up pureeing everything but the beef and put it all back together and turned the heat up to thicken it. another splash of bourbon, a quick stir, and some sour cream and egg noodles later and there you have it. I regretted pureeing the shrooms, but there's always next time...

new newsworthy bits of news-type things: I am going to paint webster. glossy white. I'll let it sink in...ok, now you can tell me how crazy I am. But here are my reasons: I have to paint him some color, he's starting to rust, so that's that...and, who has a white grill? not you? not me either...yet. Also, getting closer to achieving lifelong goal of becoming handy. I'm not quite sure if I'll ever make it to handy, maybe just handier, but I think that I can live with that. I put some sconces on the wall (handier), put together my new computer desk (kind of handy), fixed the oven/made wife think that I had actually gone to some degree of work, fixing said oven (not handy/extremely handy, but then demoted to less than handy and also kind of a liar when she found out actual amount of "fixing":), and took a nap while wife painted the living room (D-). so, yeah...that last one was bad. I suspect she doesn't trust me with the paintbrush...

stay super tuned, the dish is back, just really tired...

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LOWES. we saved a lot of money on the appliances we bought over labor dabor weekend, like 500 clams! Stuff was on mega sale, plus we had a coupon for ten percent off of our total purch. Notice they don't call it "HIGHS"...