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  • Legit, no meme, no joke, I'm making beef stroganoff.

    We don't do it often, maybe twice a year, but it's a household favorite.

    • legitimate: please provide a recipe? Thanks!

      • 1 1/2 pounds beef sirloin steak, 1/2 inch thick.
        8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced (2 1/2 cups)
        2 medium onions, thinly sliced. (Can reduce to one medium if necessary, but it changes both taste and final servings)
        1 garlic clove, finely chopped. (Can go with two or three if you're bonkers for garlic, but no more than that)
        1/4 cup butter or margarine. (I strongly recommend actual butter for both flavor and health reasons compared to margarine)
        1 1/2 cups beef broth.
        1/2 teaspoon salt.
        1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce. (Or to taste, but it really doesn't take much)
        1/4 cup all-purpose flour.
        1 1/2 cups sour cream.
        3 cups hot cooked egg noodles.

        Cut beef across grain into about 1 1/2x1/2-inch strips.

        Cook mushrooms, onions and garlic in butter in 10-inch skillet over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until onions are tender; remove from skillet. Unlike a lot of dishes, caramelizing the onions is not good thing, follow this step exactly.

        Cook beef in same skillet until brown. Stir in 1 cup of the broth, the salt and Worcestershire sauce. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer 15 minutes.

        Stir remaining 1/2 cup broth into flour; stir into beef mixture. Add onion mixture; heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir 1 minute. Stir in sour cream; heat until hot (do not boil). Serve over noodles.

        Now, this is essentially the Betty Crocker recipe. Not much has been changed since most people love that recipe and it was what a lot of families used whether they knew it or not.

        However, there is room for change there. There's no specific mushroom given, as an example. Typically, it would be button mushrooms. I favor Portobello. But any mushroom that isn't so delicate as to be ruined, or so intense as to compete with the beef is fine. If you go with a Portobello, remove the gills before cutting it up, they make the final dish look like crap, and run a little bitter (imo).

        You can make your own noodles as well, but that's a ton of work for little return.

        You can use other cuts of beef. Sirloin is very good, but pricey. Stew beef works well as long as you extend the cook time a little before the final step. Same with cube steak. The texture and flavor changes, but not too much in the flavor. In both cases, you'll end up needing more stock to balance out the extra loss of water. Skirt steak works too, but I find it doesn't have a good texture in this application.

        And, in a pinch, you can use water instead of stock, but it will not be as good. If you can't do beef stock, any decent stock will work better than water, even vegetable stock which has a totally different flavor in the sauce.

  • Love this thread and the responses I'm seeing so far. We have big plans to cuddle the baby all weekend, go to a greenhouse and farmers market, hit up a park, and spend some quality time reading as a family.

    As an aside, one of the things I really appreciate about the size of Lemmy is how the users are a lot more recognizable (and not just the novelty accounts like on Reddit or other bigger platforms). It's been interesting to see how a user can infuriate me one one thread but then have me arguing in their defense in a separate thread. It's a good reminder that people are multi-faceted and everyone is going to have both hot and garbage takes. But one thing I appreciate is being able to have a conversation on Lemmy even when we disagree on topics.

    • As an aside, one of the things I really appreciate about the size of Lemmy is how the users are a lot more recognizable (and not just the novelty accounts like on Reddit or other bigger platforms). It’s been interesting to see how a user can infuriate me one one thread but then have me arguing in their defense in a separate thread. It’s a good reminder that people are multi-faceted and everyone is going to have both hot and garbage takes. But one thing I appreciate is being able to have a conversation on Lemmy even when we disagree on topics.

      Very true!

  • Going into town on Sat: a few errands and meeting some friends for a pub lunch. Maybe going to see Poor Things at a local cinema with my SO in the evening.

    On Sunday yet another attempt to get some paintings up on the wall. It has been months and we still haven't for one reason or another. I'm going settle in for some reading otherwise.

    • Maybe going to see Poor Things at a local cinema with my SO in the evening.

      I was gonna say that if you do you can post your review in !movies@lemm.ee, but then I realized you are already one of the first people who commented on the "What have you been watching" thread ha ha

      • Yes, I'm sure that I will be posting if we do. Even if we don't, Saturday night is still movie night for us anyway, so we'll be watching something at home.

  • The weather is warming up a bit this weekend so I wanted to go for a walk between other errands :)

    • For me it's the opposite, it seems like it's getting cold so I'm going to go ice skating

    • Seems nice! What is the temperature now in Canada?

      • I'm in Vancouver so it's a little warmer for me!

        Today it's about 7°C with light rain, and earlier this month it was ~1°C with snow

  • Riding the train for almost twelve hours because airplane tickets are too expensive and the high speed rail hasn't reached where I wanna go

  • No set plans, but I have a hilariously broken app I want to rewrite. In the begining I was a bit ambitious with such a small task, but then lost myself in the process of editing it and borked it a couple of times. Now everything but the basic functionality is commented out not to be executed. I feel like I need to finally untangle that mess. Maybe it makes sense to restart that with drawing it's logic on a paper so I'm sure I understand how it all should proceed.

    Other than that? Maybe some reading and gaming. Both have massive backlogs.

  • I'm gonna plow my wife and we'll watch tech repair videos afterwards.

  • As of reading this post, my weekend plans have already begun!

    I am currently enjoying a bowl (or three) of fresh homemade french onion soup and a glass of sauvignon blanc.

    Tomorrow I'm going to put the finishing touches on a shelf for my cousin and install it in her bedroom.

    After that I'm probably going to putter around in the shop for a bit, clean up, maybe sharpen something. I'll probably poke at FreeCAD a bit with the intention of designing one of the larger woodworking projects I have going this year; I have a cabinet, a hutch and a dry bar to build once the days lengthen a bit.

    I'm late in a run through Satisfactory. I've sent the last project up the space elevator, so now I'm just horsing around, dumping things in the AWESOME sink. My stretch goal is all the trophies; the 1000 coupons for the Golden Nut is a goal I've not yet achieved in this game. I'm really hoping this is my last run of this game in early access, I don't want to wear myself out on it before 1.0.

    Speaking of stretch goals, I just got the notification that a Kickstarter I'm backing has achieved it's goal. To be fair it had before I bid; The Longest Johns are releasing a new album and along with it a bunch of other goodies. I've got their whole back catalog coming on CD. I'm looking forward to it because it'll make it easier to listen to their music in the shop, where I don't have good internet signal.

    I think it's off to a good start.

    Update: Cat in lap. Is purring.

  • Lots of new trolls but they are quickly banned.

    People are insulting sometimes but it's more about them than us. That's how they think they should behave I guess. Rebelling as a keyboard warrior and all. :)

    I had a great weak. Started leasing a new car on Monday and have been enjoying it a lot. Work is going good. Soon warmer weather too. Things are looking nice.

  • Puppy Bowl 20 years is streaming on HBO MAX on this Saturday. The actual Puppy Bowl XX is not till next sunday, but they are doing some look back at cute puppies, so probably that.

  • I should clean up a bit. Probably going to drink a liter or two of whiskey with Diet Coke or seltzer. I have parts for a whole new pc to put together but haven’t gotten around to it for a couple of months… the system I have is adequate for what I do and I haven’t felt like rocking the boat. Probably I’ll go for a walk or two with my dad if the weather is decent. Also thinking about making enchiladas, maybe pasta sauce and lasagna. Definitely need to roast some brussel sprouts and asparagus.

  • Last week I was on vacation (went to Disney World) so this weekend I'm gonna take it easy. Do some chores, order a pizza, play video games. Nothing particularly exciting, but I'm okay with that.

  • There will always be negativity unfortunately. I've come to realize that engaging in it is a waste of one's time and doesn't help resolve whatever issue the person on the other side may be going through. I try to diffuse situations, but I can't always spend all my time doing that.

    As for weekend plans, not much really. Gonna head to the gym after work and complete my assignment. Same for tomorrow. Maybe start a new video game from my backlog after playing some Muse Dash. I always crave a good platformer.

    • It's something that's important in personal relationships I think, but the context and human tends to get lost over the internet.

      If a friend's drowning in negativity, one can be present in some ways, but that can't be fixed by anyone else nor would that even really make sense. They could be in a bad situation, in which case maybe there's ways to directly help, but oftentimes it's something only they can work through and we also have to maintain some distance and boundaries and recognize we won't fix how they feel nor should we try to. And sometimes people just need to vent negativity and shout into the void or break down to a friend.

      On the internet, we fire off walls of text under the presumption people will just read it and get it and fuck off and go change their whole worldview. It takes time and the ephemeral nature of communication on the Internet means we'll never be around for the context or resolution of someone's difficulties. (nor will they for our own.) So, even more than irl, we have to set boundaries on how invested we're willing to get. It's a constant frustration for me though.

      ps muse dash looks cute as hell, have fun!!

    • There will always be negativity unfortunately. I’ve come to realize that engaging in it is a waste of one’s time and doesn’t help resolve whatever issue the person on the other side may be going through. I try to diffuse situations, but I can’t always spend all my time doing that.

      Indeed, that's the most reasonable approach. I was a bit down because I had put a lot of energy into a community, but the mod didn't really seem to opening discussions with the members. I ended leaving, but that left a bitter taste

  • I've been looking forward to Persona 3 Reload on PS5 so I blocked off the whole weekend to play it.

  • Planning on some much needed yard work and taking my little one on a playdate with her classmates.

    After some grocery shopping looking forward to making some hot soup since it's been raining a lot here.

  • Probably going to do some homework, probably going to read about distribution theory (i.e. generalized functions like Diracs and their derivatives) once I'm caught up. I'm so happy to be back in school.

    Also, I hope SDF's Lemmy instance renews their certificate so I can get back to posting on my normal account.

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