Sunday mid-day

Today's mid-day meal, so-called because some call it Sunday dinner and some call it lunch and I call it both about interchangeably but don't want to confuse you, was a nice turkey meatball stroganoff with a caprese salad. I glanced at a recipe in a magazine I received (unsolicited) last week called Cuisine at home, but didn't follow it. I have made stroganoff for years, but it's different almost every time.

This time, I took about a 1/2 pound of ground turkey, added salt & pepper, some A-1 steak sauce and dill and formed it into about a dozen small meatballs. I cooked those in a frying pan with some olive oil spray. When they were done I removed them and added some thinly sliced onion. I had the onion in the freezer leftover from another use. I also sliced up the package of baby bella mushrooms I had in the fridge. Sauteed those until done, and added a little white wine and chicken stock. I didn't measure but it was probably about 2 tablespoons of wine and about a cup of stock. It ended up being too much stock - the sauce was somewhat runny. I also added about a tablespoon of stone ground mustard (the idea I got from the Cuisine at Home magazine). Then I put in about a tablespoon of flour since it was SO runny.

I let all that cook together for a bit, and then boiled water for egg noodles. Meanwhile, I did some slicing for the salad - tomatoes, mozzarella cheese and a chiffonade of basil leaves. Drizzled a bit of balsamic vinegar on that and the salad was done.

I will make stroganoff again, no doubt, but today's sauce was too runny and I'm not convinced the mustard added enough zing to add it.

Tonight's evening meal (called "supper"" where I'm from) is still percolating in my brain.