Crockpot Beef Burger Stroganoff – Easy Coconut Cake
Tips:
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Use your restaurant leftovers the same way you use regular leftovers. For example:
- Boil the carcass of deli chicken for soup or noodles and dumplings.
- Use leftover rice from Chinese take out in casseroles, soups, rice pudding or if it is white rice, eat it for breakfast with cinnamon, sugar and milk.
- Cut up leftover French fries and fry in bacon grease like hash browns or cook with chopped meat and veggies for an easy homemade hash.
- Leftover salads or veggies can be liquified to make vegetable broth or veggies can be frozen and then added to soups and casseroles.
- Uneaten hamburgers or hot dogs can be cut into pieces, frozen and then added to chili, baked beans, spaghetti, soups etc.
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Sometimes I need a dollop of whipped cream and I don’t always have it thawed. Thaw your whipped topping and place dollops on a cookie sheet. Freeze them. Place in a plastic bag and keep it in the freezer. When you make cocoa for the grandkids or need a dollop of whipped topping to top an individual dish of pudding or dessert you can pull out just what you need.
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The next time you make stroganoff, try adding an envelope of ranch salad dressing to the sour cream for a little extra flavor. You can do this to homemade or store bought stroganoff.
Menu:
Beef Burger Stroganoff
Toasted Buns
Cantaloupe slices
Tomato slices
Easy Coconut Cake
Recipes:
Beef Burger Stroganoff
1 lb ground beef, cooked
3 slices bacon, diced
1 small onion, chopped
2 Tbsp. flour
1 tsp. salt
Dash of Worcestershire sauce
1 can (10 3/4 oz.) condensed cream of mushroom soup
1 cup sour cream
6 to 8 hamburger buns, toasted and buttered
In a large skillet, brown the beef and bacon until the red color disappears. Drain.
In a crockpot, mix together drained beef, bacon, onion, flour, Worcestershire sauce and salt. Stir in undiluted soup. Cover pot and cook on low 4 to 5 hours. Stir in sour cream. Spoon mixture over noodles or toasted buns. Serves 6 to 8.
Easy Coconut Cake
1 (18.25 oz.) package white cake mix
1 cup white sugar
1 (8 oz.) container sour cream
2 cups flaked coconut
1 1/2 cups whipped topping
Prepare cake mix according to directions. Bake in two 9-inch round layers. Split layers horizontally when cool to make 4 layers.
Blend together sugar, sour cream and coconut and chill. Spread all but 1 cup of this mixture between the layers. Blend the remaining cup of mixture with the whipped topping and spread on the top and sides of the cake. Seal cake in airtight container and refrigerate.
Photo By: bittle
These recipes sound so good. That cake is especially yummy sounding.
My mother’s go to for stretching meat meal.
hamburger brown it a bit.
put in an electric frying pan or an oven safe pan.
cut potatoes thin lay over the hamburger.
one can of consomme soup (undiluted)
one can of peas.
Cook until potatoes are cooked. About 1/2 an hour.
If you want to use frozen peas dilute the soup with half a can of water.
We called it hash and it was a quick meal to get ready and if you simmer it you can start it around lunch time and it is all ready for supper or speed it up by cooking at a higher temp.
Like I said it was a way to stretch the meat. Add lots of potatoes and peas and nobody really misses the meat because every bite you get some. It looks nice on the plate as well with the 3 layers.
Your stroganoff sounds tasty as well.
I really like the beef burger stroganoff recipe
Yummy 
thanks for sharing it 
Love and hugs from the ocean shores of California, Heather 
I often “stretch” the ground beef in recipes like stroganoff, spaghetti, tacos and meat loaf with cooked lentils (excellent source of protein). I cut the beef in the recipe by half, and sub that amount of cooked lentils. I add the lentils just as the beef finishes cooking (in stroganoff, spaghetti, tacos) or mix in with raw beef (in meatloaf, meatballs). Lentils cook up quickly, in about 30 minutes. I cook a large batch, and freeze 1 cup portions to use as needed. In our area, ground beef is about $2.50-2.75/lb., whereas dry lentils are about 75 cents/ lb , bought in bulk (they cook up to an even lower price per pound).
I love your recipe. I’ve never added bacon before. Yum!
Grandma, That recipe sounds good!
We substitute a package of cream cheese for the sour cream since my family doesn’t care for the bitter taste after taste of sour cream in stroganoff. Much more successful.
Over toasted buns??!!
excellent idea! I hardly ever have the noodles on hand but left over bread is always around. You can use plain yogurt in place of the cream of mushroom soup and add a little onion powder to it or have veggie or beef boullion added to it.I never buy cream soups. Always have homemade yogurt on hand.
I just saw the little menu with cantaloup and tomato slices. Thank you! I hate trying to think of what to put with the main part of dinner. Makes life easier!
I’m the same way LD. I could figure out what to have for meat or main dish but not what to go with it but then I lived by my mother in law for awhile and she had to fix 2-3 meals everyday for a crowd and I noticed how even though her meals seemed large she did things like fresh sliced fruit or veggies, pickles, bread and jam and very simple easy things that didn’t involve a lot of cooking or work. Everything always tasted so good too.
Me again! lol @Lili- thanks for sharing how to stretch the beef. I was told a long time ago about doing it but never given instructions on how and quickly forgot about it. Our beef is $2.99 for the junk burger and for 80%fat$3.69lb at Wal Mart and the grass fed is $4 something lb. I have some lentils and love cooking with them. Will try it out tomorrow
More “add without cooking” ideas: Cranberry sauce (it’s not just for Thanksgiving), apple sauce, canned fruit, olives, cheese and crackers. Deviled eggs add protein and are not much work, especially if you boil up a batch of eggs once a week and store them in the frig. Eggs are a great, cheap protein.
Thanks for the hints for using leftover French fries. I’m reminded that my grandma used to chop them up and fold them into an omelet. They blend well with other ingredients and it’s a great way to use up that handful of fries that you couldn’t finish from your combo meal! Tasty topped with a dollop of salsa, too!
Hi Jill
Gotta love the coconut cake recipe! I live across the street from our water filtration plant and about 6 years ago they decided to do away with a bunch of small white cement balls,not sure what they were used for but they were giving them away to anyone who wanted them.Needless to say those small white cement balls look pretty in my flower garden!and around the flag pole. just goes to show what you can find when you least expect it Have a blessed weekend.
Love the coconut cake recipe!
Wondering if it’s a misprint that the instructions tell us to cook for 4or 5 hours as the beef is cooked already and bacon takes minutes.
Magdalen it is the same as cooking stews,soups – many times things are all cooked but you simmer or cook them for a long time so the flavors can blend, things can thicken etc. I wrote an article on this once how we are so use to instant and microwave cooking now a days that we have forgotten slow cooking and how much better it tastes because the flavors simmer and blend together.Even like on this recipe for beef stroganoff when I make it on the stove top even if it is all cooked I still let it simmer for about 20-25 mins. before I use it.
Just wanted to share a thrown-together dish I made in the crockpot yesterday. Had two chicken leg quarters that were not quite thawed but put them in the crockpot with 1/2 can of coconut milk. You can use canned milk here, too, but my coconut milk was nearing expiration date (so you know I had that can a long time
), added about 1/2 cup brown sugar – just sprinkled it on the top, some ground ginger and a few tablespoons of low sodium soy sauce. Added about 1/2 cup water and turned it on low. When I came home at 7 pm, the whole house smelled wonderful. I meant to add a little pineapple juice but the chicken tasted so good without it that I didn’t bother. It took me all of 5 minutes to put this together in the morning. When I got home, setting the table, cutting up the watermelon and warming the green beans took another 15 minutes. Dinner in less than 30 min including the morning time is my kind of meal. Try the crockpot if you haven’t done so. It is a wonderful timesaver and the foods are so tender. My husband mentioned that he added some water to the crockpot during the day because he thought the food would burn. I don’t think he needed to do that but he was helping and I will NEVER discourage that. 
That sounds really good Maggie and something different to do with chicken. Thanks