Appalachian cooking with Brenda– old time’ Beef Stroganoff

Hello ‘ Brenda makes her version of a beef stroganoff’ it is good and easy to make’ Thank You for watching.

hello everyone welcome back to cooking
with Brenda and
David and tonight we’re going to make
some beef strugging off so we’re going
to get started here you got to melt you
some
butter get it pretty
warm and you know what I got a stick of
butter in this Skillet and I’m going to
get the oven going well no I don’t need
to start that yet give it a few
minutes cuz I got a couple things here
to
do hi David how are you beef stroking
off mhm I got lipstick on my teeth yeah
when’s the last time you made this real
when’s the last time you made this been
a while
David but you also serve this over egg
noodles I must go ahead and eat that
like that woman no that’s raw that used
to eat the raw hamburger meat not much
different go ahead get your big old bite
and I’ll puke right here in the floor
for you looks good o are you really
wanting to bite open up not pack it in
your jaw I’m just kidding blood and
all we do eat our steak medium RAR but
you know what it’s supposed to be up to
a certain temperature yeah and then it’s
good tastes good like that too I I never
I used to get mine so well done you
couldn’t chew it and I got out of
[Music]
that cuz when they brought it to me I
was I didn’t want to you know being kind
of shy I didn’t want to say anything but
I’ve learned now I speak
up it’s our hard earned money that
they’re they’re wasting so hey we didn’t
make it for someone else to
spend
right and our money’s really been hard
earned but it hasn’t been for free
that’s for sure no man they both worked
very hard I still am I know you
do his work’s more mental now but hey
mental work and physical work and it’s
hard well you can do that job good it’s
mental
work I can’t even hardly think of my
name now that’s what I’m
saying
the recipe I’ve always went by says a
half a pound of
butter well ain’t that two
sticks I don’t know it
is the whole pack is a pound so what all
you going to do here I’m going to fry
this
meat this with all that butter in there
yeah that’s just regular beef all right
you cut it it’s is round steak want to
use round steak all right I think I
fixed the Pham try it now and see if all
right it’s it came back
on okay you got to cook half of it that
a time or make three cookings or
whatever so did you slice that in the
strips or did it come that way no I
sliced it in the strips that’s the way
the recipes always called for
strips this is round steak and you got
to find a way to get it
tender so and you got to cook it high so
it a brown you needs to Brown so you
better get back or you going get top why
you got it up on so high for didn’t I
just now say that David good time a day
boy you don’t never listen do you huh do
you that literally is what just come out
my my husband’s ears don’t work I’m
tired they never work when it comes to
your life and I’m sure I’m not the only
one that’s like that either a lot of
women’s hus don’t their ears don’t work
when it comes to D you have to Brown
this meat David in order to Brown it
it’s going to be done on
high and I already to have all the
protective gloves
but yeah do it at your own risk that’s
what I’m
doing it goes pretty
quick but it’s not go Brown It’s got too
much to me it’s got too much liquid but
it’ll brown with but that butter will
burning you ain’t
careful so much steam I came you
see
whoops not a lot of room in the closet I
was trying to get a better angle a lot
of room there’s not these are kitchens
and stuff are very small around here
well it was some places in the old days
I know
it Grandpa is real big there big
Farmhouse wow you see all that butter
was in there now look mostly gone so
what was the point of all the butter you
have to fry it pretty quick to get it to
Brown quick look that’s why you got it
up on and you do need at least a pound
and a half of this steak okay you can
also use sirloin steak so that’s why now
I’m going to add some more butter so
that’s why you had to put with my life
you turned it up kind of high so to
hurry up and that that’s the proper
Browning procedure yeah that’s it but
you better have something on your arms
like I didn’t do
and and an old
apron and old
apron this one ain’t exactly old it was
just
hiding where’s your Texas
apron huh where’s your Texas apron I Ain
going worry about doing this I was
getting ready to say that kind of goes
with Texas
beef I got as I got an idea I’m going to
do with each apron okay okay okay you
need a medium siiz
onion and some
mushrooms how many mushrooms
two a pack a normal
pack I know where some of these things
are growing mushrooms in the summer I’ll
show you where they’re at
they maybe you can I don’t know about
these wild mushrooms to eat
them we’ll figure it out oh really after
you
die I’m not kidding I’ve seen one as big
that thing had to be 20 in in diameter
huge
I’m I got picture few
minutes down in the
sink when me and Jimmy was panting for
gold that time I run up on
it been a long time ago it’s probably
still there that’s why it’s so big I
living off grid I was watching this
couple living off grid and that guy was
really smart because it’s what he
studied and he shows you all kinds of
different mushrooms you can eat and they
was drying them drying them and saving
them and eating them and they loved
them cuz he ate
healthy what your shirt say right
there Great Smoky Mountains Pigeon Forge
tenness something on the back oh yeah it
is Ain it
1967 I’ve never been to Pigeon
Forge it’s I haven’t been oh I have it’s
nice yeah yeah I know you have a long
time ago uh your mom and dad used to go
too yeah that’s when I went a good time
you can go to the Comedy Barn it’s
fun there’s an upside down house I
didn’t go to it we been the Cherokee
when I was younger with mom and dad and
my little brother there’s a strip there
and you can go into
Seville
Ville and then you can go into Pigeon
Forge and gatl bur and that’s where
the all the fish and stuff
is in the ocean
no in the river David and the creek
they’re inside a building oh all the
fish are inside a building why they how
they live and if they’re in a building
just forget
it just forget it okay it’s called an
aquarium that’s it well why didn’t you
say that in the beginning instead of let
me struggle for some words Edith Bunker
Arie I was giving you some hints
and I’ve never had a recipe that call
for garlic but you know me I put it in
everything and I mxed up two rather
large gloves it don’t do nothing but
make it
better and here’s some salt and
pepper it’s about a half a teaspoon of
salt and the pepper corn this is what
I’m using sea salt and the pepper corn
Melody it doesn’t call for that fancy
stuff but I got it why not use it
right so back in the 70s we went to
Cherokee and that was really really neat
I really loved that and I remember very
very much they say it’s changed a lot
now it’s mostly gambling and stuff but
that was I I don’t know I haven’t been
but that was really really cool and we
went to a place called ghost town in the
sky and they had gunfire everything it’s
like a yeah I’d love to go to something
got place now can we be right back yeah
okay we’ll be right back y’all okay okay
I got
a a tablespoon of tomato
paste and a tablespoon of lemon
juice and a teaspoon of
paprika and going
around and we got this thing of sour
cream chop that up in there that’s the
wrong sour
cream it’s got grease all over the place
I know it does I can’t help but that’s
it
goes cream
baby
I need it right
there don’t come over here whatever you
do don’t come over here why I don’t want
you to that’s why I just
listen for one time well we’re going to
find out why no we’re
not what’s the matter ain’t nothing
wrong in
there got
16
this to put the P I’m
this is
it that ain’t no
good that’s good
already what are you eating
nothing I need a spoon
spoon something’s wrong with this thing
it’s out of focus real
bad
I’m going to have to move up something
better after you sauté your mushrooms
and onions add the rest of your
ingredients in what I just gave
you and wellow I can just eat that just
like the way it is what are you eat the
meat mhm would you mind to leave some
for dinner or
what I had just close to a pound and a
half you’re supposed to have a pound and
a half that’s good just like the way it
is cooked in all that butter I’m sure
you do like it
I don’t know which one to use
David you put sugar on it uh-uh you want
me to to taste better if you do no no
thank
you I got to get that tomato past and
stuff stirred in here real
good should just put all that in the
blender or something should have or or
in your fancy Kitchen Aid should have
would have could have I know you don’t
have to you just heat it mix that in
here and pour it over that put it in the
oven all that good old
butter there’s a sticking a half of
butter in
here in this whole
recipe not
good won’t we just ining it up and I’ll
take half of this and you take the other
half with that stuff don’t you want it
to bake together marinate together and
we’ll just call it even you put this
over egg noodles
David
it’s a concoction you put over egg
noodles and I get it all mixed together
here real good pour it Let It Bake uh oh
that’s go
350 it doesn’t have to be up to 350 just
put it in there for 20 minutes and let
it
bake I had on my mama’s little um
shoes that’s why we had the pause on
last one your feet was hurting so bad
you had to my feet was hurting and I was
having a hot flash that’s what it was
and I had to just get away from this
heat for a minute you a supposed to be
talking like that what’s wrong with me
seeing us having a hot flass I’m an old
woman and old woman knows exactly what
I’m talking about and I’m sure the men
do too you’ve been going through your
time ain’t you David you don’t course
not you have you haven’t had hot flashes
but you’ve been
unbearable yeah thanks to
prazone oh my goodness he’s not ever
going to take predisone again never he
was so mean I said you quit taking that
stuff right now but you didn’t have it
two pills left three do you I don’t know
I have never seen I didn’t take them all
I didn’t take I’ve never seen predone do
anybody like it did him and I’m just
going to tell you I said quit taking
that stuff he was so David let me pour
it
I I don’t know bab but you might have to
all right the skillet only half full
well let just let me pause okay I’ll
ruin this
meat what are you doing I’m trying to
get it with both
hands I don’t get it you said I’m trying
to get it in there bab so you’ll quit
eating my meat I ain’t going to have any
you say do it then you come over and you
got slopping
everywhere
did you turn the phone off no well I’m
all G you just kept going didn’t my arm
is still well I told you I was doing it
I was getting ready to do it well Mama
I’m going to leave some mama just close
your
eyes leaving just a little bit I ain’t
got enough meat for all of it anyway he
done ate it all set it that b like hog
lick it
clean right there it is he point it my b
oh you still left the hog lick it clean
so I going to let it it don’t matter D I
don’t care I don’t like it that well you
know it’s never been my favorite but as
you know I can fried that steak just
like that and he loves it and all that
butter did you try it did you try it
like that what just a steak yeah I like
it you did try it no I didn’t try it you
should have tried it they don’t have
enough to left to try you done ate half
of it no I didn’t yeah you did every
time I turn around just grabbing a piece
and running in
there give me some more gracious okay
I’m going to put some foil over that
please let me get
it big butt out of my way it’s getting
bigger every
day I’m trying to lose and he’s trying
to find
it we bought I bought some uh chip beef
today and some chip je both of bhead and
boy that stuff is really good I ain’t
never had that before it was chipped ham
she chipped it and had it I come down
off the hill and went to
Kroger did you have you did have you
ever had it before I haven’t never had
it before no uhuh I mean I’ve had
chipped ham and beef but not the B’s had
I had never had had that before it’s
that’s just the brand I know but it sure
is good Oh I thought it was a Hog’s head
or something they skinned it off the top
of his head and called
it seriously you called it B’s head
you’re a little dumb today
baby he didn’t care what it was off of
he was eating it and you put it on a
rist cracker and he was eating it left
and right look I’m going I’m going to
stick that I’m going to stick it I’m
going to get it wet first that’s the end
off of the garlic and I’m going to get
it wet and I’m going to stick it in that
root starter I’m going stick it down the
dirt and sip it the grow probably will I
got a green Thum how do we go from hog
said ham to that just to get you off of
this well I did thought it was the skin
part off the top of the hle you did
thought I did
thought I’ve seen daddy take a Hog’s
head and hit it with an axe and it slide
across the floor and then David don’t
say that well I’m just saying what I
some of the weird stuff I had to go
through with when I was a kid it’s one I
got no sense out the flush the toilet
I’ve seen them I didn’t never watch them
but that hog he I had one hog that he
was trying to get the brains out and he
chopped it with the m uh uh Hatchet and
got the brains out and put it one of
them aluminum pie pans and he ate it
while I was down there I went did you
hear what I said mhm I went to a
store while I was down he ate it okay
raw brains shut up while I was down here
you probably know all about I went to a
pet store shut up you probably always
ate hog brains too you no I didn’t well
I
didn’t you know what I was real picky
for some reason and I just didn’t want
to eat it my uncle was like at Daddy’s
brother he had a farm and he raised
cattle and chicken and everything but he
wouldn’t eat it he’d take it to the
market and he’d buy his at the store
ain’t that weird and I didn’t never
understand that but I didn’t want to eat
it either I wanted to buy mine from the
store didn’t want didn’t want to eat it
so would you eat raw pig brains no I’m
not going to eat them cooked either I I
a either be honest with you I had a pet
pig I can’t hardly well I like trying to
tell you that Daddy and them had a pet
pig well Daddy and we had a pig and my
sister claimed that thing is her pet
well I’m going to tell you what they had
to shoot that thing a whole bunch of
times to get it to die yeah I’ve seen a
cow done that like that it’s it’s
horrible let’s quit talking about that
stuff I don’t like I told you to shut up
I don’t know why you bring stuff up like
that for it well I she trying to tell
you I you got going but what I was
trying to change the subject and go to
was I went to the pet store I needed
some stuff from my kid and my furry kids
and they have a parrot in there and that
thing was screaming and a holling and I
went back and I was talking to it I said
what you hollering about and he come
over to the edge of the cage at and he
staring right at me and I said you
pretty
bird pretty bird and it just stood there
wasn’t s that one and said we finally
got somebody got him to hush up said
he’s been hollering and hollering he was
probably scared to
death what was I going to do he’s in the
cage he post oh no here comes eth bunker
and they had some a couple little
finches they were little teeny things
that was cute they had a white one and
one look great and they had some really
pretty little birds I can’t remember
what they were but that parrot I’m going
to tell you that thing was something
else but I said do
one of the people come by when she said
that and I said don’t this thing talk
yet and she said no we’re working with
it I bet it would talk if you talk to it
I was I stood there for a long time I
was probably in there half hour talking
that bird but it’s only $600 it probably
crawled up in the corner with shaking
wasn’t it no he come over at the edge
and just kept standing there looking at
me and all of a sudden done his wings
like this and he got quiet again St and
they said he ain’t been that quiet all
day well he I said he don’t understand
he’ll bu he probably trying to figure
out what’s going on folks I ain’t never
heard nobody talk like this before he
probably thinking if I ever learn to
talk I want to talk just like her and I
don’t care how people do or what they
want to do but I went up to this little
little girl to register and I said um
she’s got these things coming out her
nose and all these inside her all about
seven or eight of them in her ears and
she had them piercings in her eyebrows
and everywh and I said can I ask you a
question are you what they call Golf and
she said oh no I’m a country girl and I
said really she said yeah I’m from
Texas well people got them earrings and
everything now I mean they it’s normal I
guess but only ring I got on is the one
I wear and that’s it well I got my ears
pierced twice but well they do that to
little kids now I heard I mean like two
year old threey old they even old enough
to know what’s going on Carly’s was done
when she was a year old oh good lord
yeah she lost her earring and I let her
wear one of my little diamonds and she
lost
it and I found it you know something
that parrot probably
thought this is my new owner it it liked
you that’s why it it was stopped and
listen to you it just kept standing
there looking at me and it done it three
or four times he ruffled his F out like
this and he was doing like this real
fast and he still just quit and was
looking at me come up close to the edge
of it and was looking at me and I was
talking to it and it didn’t wasn’t hard
I just thought of a night in there I
just thought of Nightmare and that woman
working there she come up and she said
that’s the quietest that Bird’s been all
day if you had that bird it end up being
talking just like you and every day you
be griping at me and the bird will be
too but that bird was in the back I two
of them it was in the back and it do
that you do it too you grip and grip and
griping I said would you please
hush well y’all will be back in 20
minutes well 15
now them birds are cool though I yeah
they are I wanted one real bad when I
was a little kid but I never got one but
I just loud yeah I don’t know what it
wanted I guess he want somebody talk to
it cuz when I was talking it was quiet
it was so loud I walked in the door I’m
like good time of day I went back there
cuz it sounded like a parrot and it was
first time I’ve seen a parrot in there
cuz I usually go to that one if I need
to go some you know get something yeah
them things are really smart yeah they
are but she said they was working with
to get it to to talk watch it when it
does learn to talk it’ll be just like
you then you be talk
like then people in there be saying dad
go that woman come in here and done mess
this bird up ain’t nobody going to take
it now
howy said
howy now you take this old like mini
pearl you put a half half a bag of
butter in this and and a half a pag of
sugar
and I said what you hollering about and
that’s probably somebody be coming up
our Taco it would be hard what you
holling
about all
right was trying to watch America’s Most
Wanted and you can’t David gets so
worked up and I’m like shut up shut up
shut up and he won’t you can’t watch
nothing like he gets so worked and I get
worked up too cuz I just don’t
understand the crime well I I just can’t
understand people being so stupid makes
my heartbeat fast mean me too they’re
this stupidness stupidness stupid
there’s no sense in all this crime and
stuff it’s
stupid two young people was what we was
looking at a while ago
and sense the crime don’t get me going
here you already going you got me going
an
auction look at that David kind of looks
nasty don’t it but no actually it looks
pretty
good but you didn’t tell them what this
was about cuz you didn’t want to put
that on I did so I said it goes over egg
noodles but you made noodles I made egg
noodles is what I made egg noodles and
that goes over top of that that goes
over top of it how much you want that’s
enough right now that’s hot
too I want this spoon well it does smell
good we’ve had it before it’s been a
while though like we always say you’ve
never been in the kitchen
so if that you know the water out that
separates a little bit you put that old
nasty glove up there against it
and these gloves are not nasty I wash
them thank
you you’re going to make me eat it yeah
you’re going to eat it and hopefully
you’re going to like
it he likes everything I give him he
likes this you know it’s just funny how
he’s you know never has been in the
kitchen all these years and and when he
starts recording it look at all that I
done gave you piggy so already getting
late I’ll be sick late at night I got
where I have that acid
reflux did you take your medicine you
going to put a bag of cheese on it did
you did you want cheese on it don’t
usually get cheese on it but well that
stuff you made the other night was a
little bit better with the cheese on
I’ll have to admit that stuff look me
him at that whole pound of gash with no
problem well it took a couple of days
but we ate it for breakfast supper and
lunch
not quite that we ate it for supper two
nights and him lunch one day I think it
was more than that was it I don’t know
it don’t matter to me long as it’s food
I’ll eat it I don’t care he sometimes
we’ll eat something in between and then
we’ll finish it but I made a humongous
pot of chili beans and it about killed
us
both I just can’t eat it that much all
right here we go here we go all right
I’m going to try one would you like for
me to get you a out there I’ll try one
without the beef you don’t have to twirl
that it’s not like spaghetti
silly actually I can feel that from all
the way over
here he can eat really hot stuff like
that but I
can’t oh yeah it’s pretty good it’s
pretty good and my thumb is getting
better it’s not black hardly he’s UND
dug a hole in it to get all blood out
there I noticed on some of the other
things while I was doing that you can
see my thumb where it was all black
where I bashed it you know he he gets
really paranoid about something like
that if he mashes it and that blood
underneath it and I was putting nail
grow on it to get it to grow faster and
it was
working well I mashed it you twirling
that I mashed it picking up a
transmission and it got away from me and
and it smashed my finger but it’s been
what about at least a month it’s been
probably yeah at least a month then it’s
finally getting
better oh yeah two thumbs up I guess
we’re doing pretty good oh yeah we’ll
just hurry up get off here so you can oh
by the way if I’ve got any Avon people
in my
community please let me know I want some
of the blonde pencil brow pencil
the ones you
sharpen it matches my color a lot better
you know when you start getting older
these out here they go away or they get
so light you can’t see them I don’t know
but what kind of eybrows did the parrot
have I wasn’t looking oh it was enjoying
my voice well y’all was enjoying each
other so much it really was enjoying me
stand on talking to it cuz it was shut
up for a while there heyy you forgot to
answer I happen to think about something
woman from Oakdale
roale mhm no Oakdale it was Oakville
okay and that was not too far from where
I was from where I’m from well Radell I
don’t know how far away it is but we did
live there for a while in both places
yeah I don’t know how long cuz I was
young Odell Oakville West Virginia no
roale and Oakville West Virginia roale
it was in the middle of the cold field
because we would get up on them big old
piles I mean big old piles we’ climb up
them and just jump down them and Mommy
we went in one day mommy’s like what in
this world she said I told y’all to stay
away from but hey we were surrounded by
Cold fields we had to have something to
play with sound like it’d be fun well
wasn’t as fun as if it would be sand but
better than nothing better than rocks
but we come in and we wasn’t
pretty but but you know we we had fun
some of my sister cousins unless we live
together and I call my sister cousins
cuz we grew up together we lived
together a lot yeah well Mom raised a
whole bunch of kids you know all around
the neighborhood you know get everybody
confused I did say Rell yeah this was a
comment and and I was telling you about
it but you couldn’t find it I I answered
a bunch of comments but I didn’t never
see it so yeah it’s in there you just a
found it go back and look again yeah but
um I still got some of them to answer
yeah but um now that’s kind of a similar
story to my mom she lived when she was a
little girl well she lived all over the
place cuz she got transferred cuz Daddy
worked on the rail well she was kind of
basically like an orphan she got
transferred from one family member to
another but she did live with her real
parents for a while and they lived in
barir Maryland and when she was little
and and they her father was worked on
this
um uh bno railroad I wish your uncle
would have raised her so they lived in a
um the train station and Mom said they
would play on uh in in barir Maryland
they lived in a train station and they
and they they lived in the in the
upstairs part of it and they used to
play a full coins they had found you
know they wouldn’t United States Coins
they other coins but anyway long stories
but Mom said but they played her and the
other kids played on the coal piles and
at the end of the day everybody was
black we was all black everybody yeah
clothes you couldn’t even tell what
color clothes we had on but you know
when we lived in uh Oakville that little
store where that woman ate that raw
hamburger that’s where that was at in
Oakville and Oakville well I have my two
youngest sisters they were little and I
mommy would send me to the store and I
would have both of them just dying to go
with me and trying to carry con and and
Lori beside me and these two
um dou and pinch her dogs trying to get
after some that fence wasn’t very sturdy
it like scared us to death so we would
come home on the rail on the railroad
we’d walk on side the railroad just
hoping and praying one didn’t come and
um just to get home and I told Mommy I
said we’re scared to death of my old
dogs mommy tried to get us it seemed
like every time they were out in the
yard but I was kind of glad we moved
away from I liked that that house and
all
but we still had an outside
bathroom and one time I went out the
window well we did too I know I hated it
but thank God for indoor pluming yeah
that is kind of a great you know feature
to have in it indoor Plum we learn to
appreciate stuff like that indoor
plumbing no more water carrying to take
a we would catch rainwater take a bath
in or we had to carry it so Daddy would
have these big drums he would catch it
in sometimes and some places we live but
a lot of places when I was young they
had no no indoor plumbing n now one of
the houses that we did have a pump where
we could pump
it but that was good no carrying but we
still had to heat the water sound like
Little House on the Prairie days but
actually it wasn’t that long ago when
you really think about it I know really
what thank God for indoor plumbing that
was hard on us oh yeah I know it’s was
hard on my grandma carrying water me and
my brother carried so much water that
poor soul carried her whole life
carrying water one of my sister said
well I carried water too and I thought
when she’s almost four years younger
than me and I’m like when I was
young I no I was young in that house we
had to carry
water so I’m not sure when she carried
it but well you showed me I don’t think
mommy would have let her you showed me
the Creekway y’all used to take a bath
in oh yeah we enjoyed going out there in
the summer no water carrying we enjoyed
going out there getting in the creek we
take our bar soap and our shampoo and go
on yeah
y there was this one old witch she
always wanted to pick on me and I wasn’t
afraid of her she called me to be word
one time and I told her I’ll show you
one and here she was tall and just mean
you know she thought she was bad how old
is
she I don’t know no David I remember it
all but I don’t know how old I was at
that
time but my cousin end up marrying her
and I Swan he stayed with her until the
day he di he looked like Clint Eastwood
and I we always asked him what do you
seeing that demon she was definitely a
demon I guess she’s still living I don’t
know well neither one of their kids look
like my cousin I he the one them belong
to
him yeah well y’all we’re going to get
off here and um get off here before it
gets too weird it’s already been weird
already so they like to hear us talk
about our life as far as I know I know
but if but anyhow y’all we’re going to
see you later thank you to all the new
subscribers and thank all of you for
putting up with us and hanging in there
with us and well we hope we’re doing
something other all stay safe out there
I hope we’re doing something worthwhile
here I mean I hope somebody’s learning
how to do some stuff I’ve been getting
injections and every time I get one I
end up a big old KN so it’s going away
now that was a RSV one I got shingles
and I had a knot like this on my arm and
she said you didn’t get shingle you got
the shingle shot I got the Shing well
I’m talking about shots David yeah I
know but the way you said it I said I
got the shingle one yeah and the second
part of it I got this huge knot on and
now when I got the RSV she said no I you
ain’t going to get no not well it did
just like the shingle one so the next
one’s going in this one well I don’t
understand why you didn’t do the one
that and do it in the other arm anyway
so well that one was filled up so they
won’t do them on me until every B two
weeks all right all right y’all we’ll
see you next time bye all
[Music]
right