Sunday Dinner Two Ways

Ready for a Sunday dinner recipe?

What say we do two?

 I have two vegetarians in the house, so let's make some company victuals (er, vittles) for plant and meat eaters simultaneously!

 Cuz that's how we roll.

 

May I present: Beef AND Beef-Free Stroganoff!

Gather up:

A 2 1/2 pound beef roast, the cheaper the better

A package of vegetarian Meatless Meatballs

Five onions

1 pound of mushrooms, cut in half

Fresh minced garlic

Two cans of beef broth

One can of vegetable broth

Red wine

Butter

Olive oil

Baby carrots

2 16 oz tubs of light sour cream

Adobo Seasoning

McCormick's Grill Mates Roasted Garlic and Herb seasoning

One envelope of onion soup mix. Read the ingredients before you buy it. Some contain beef stock

Wide egg noodles

 Okay, get ready to cry.

Drizzle olive oil and 3 tablespoons of butter into a hot saute pan

 Cut your onions into eighths so they're chunky.

 I used about 4 tablespoons of garlic because Sam and I will kiss each other no matter what.

Sprinkle the garlic with a teaspoon of Adobo and saute until they just start to turn brown

 Add the onions and mushrooms.

 Dump a teaspoon of this stuff in there and cook until the onions are transluscent.

You know, transparent.

Like my motivation for doing this post.

 

Do not eat as is.

Divide this mess into two dutch ovens.

 Trim your hunk of meat and cube it into bite sized pieces

Brown your meat in the same saute pan, then choose which pot is for the carnivores and dump it in.

 Put your meatless balls in the other.

Deglaze the saute pan with two cups of red wine and pour that over the carnivore mixture.
Add 1 1/2 cups to the vegetarian pot straight out of the bottle.

Throw three cups of baby carrots into each miasma.

Sprinkle half of the onion soup over each.

 Add the vegetable broth to the vegetarian pot, and the beef broth to the...you've got this, right?

Simmer for an hour and a half. Go catch up on the laundry or haul out the Parcheesi.

 A half hour before serving, ladle some of the broth from each pot into a bowl.

 Stir in the sour cream. This will raise the temperature gently and keep it from breaking; you want this sauce like velvet.

 Blend it into each pot. Try not to get them mixed up.

Vegetarians do not like T Rex food.

  Let that simmer and cook up your noodles.

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 Serve it up.

 Watch it disappear.

Do not notice until too late that your plate could have used wiping.

It really wasn't in my possession long enough to do that.