What You Can Do With 8 oz of Sour Cream

Actually alot! I was in the mood for some stroganoff and went to my resourceful Betty Crocker Cookbook. I only had chicken on hand so I made Chicken Stroganoff. I am trying not to put in repeats on the this site, but this stroganoff was soo much better than the one I had wrote about a while ago, and it looks better ;)

4 yums

• 1 1/2 lbs beef tenderloin, about 1.5 in thick (I used one big chicken breast, cut up)


• 2 tbsp butter


• 1 1/2 cup beef broth
  
• 2 tbsp ketchup (I omitted)


• 1 tsp salt


• 1 small clove garlic, mincehd


• 3 cups sliced mushrooms (8 0z)


• 1 medium onion, chopped about 1/2 cup ( I used 1 shallot)


• 3 tbsp flour


• 1 cup sour cream


• cooked noodles

Melt butter in a non stick skillet over medium high heat. Cook chicken, stirring occasionly till browned. Reserve abotu 1/3 cup of the broth and pour the rest in with the salt and garlic. Heat to boiling, reduce heat. Cover and simmer for about 10 minutes or until chicken is tender. Stir in the mushrooms and onions. Cover and simmer for another 5 minutes. Stir flour into the reserved broth. Pour over the chicken and stir in. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil for 1 minutes and reduce heat to low. Stir in the sour cream until hot and pour over noodles.

As I split the stroganoff recipe in half, I still had 4 oz. of sour cream leftover. I remembered that there were a few of my dessert recipes that call for sour cream and I always want to try them when I don't have the cream on hand. So I found one of the recipes I have been meaning to try out, Pound Cake with Chocolate Swirl. 2 yums. Have to say I was not too pleased. It was a bit dry, and not that moist dense cake I was hoping to get from a pound cake. The flavor was just OK, and did not really taste like a pound cake either. If I had to compare it to something, a boring muffin would be a good comparison.

• 1 cup sugar
  
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter


• 2 cups flour
  
• 1 tsp baking powder


• 1 tsp baking soda8 oz sour cream


• 1 tsp vanilla


• 2 eggs


• 2 oz semi sweet chocolate, grated (I just used whole chocolate chips because I was lazy)


• 1 tsp cinnamon

Heat over to 350'. Butter a 9x5 in pan. Mix the chocolate and cinnamon together in a bowl and set aside. Beat sugar and butter together till light and fluffy. Add sifted flour, soda and powder and beat till blended. Add sour cream and beat. Add vanilla and eggs and beat till combined. Spread half the batter into the pan. Sprinkle 1/2 the chocolate mix over the batter. Then top with remaining batter and top that with the remaining mix (I forgot this step...). Bake for 55 minutes and let cool for 10 minutes.