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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIt might be the wine talking but I think I did OK for my wife's Mother's Day supper
I made Hamburger Wellington with Pillsbury canned biscuits and sauteed squash, zucchini and onions and our daughter made terriyaki rice.
First I browned hamburger patties (I mixed in some Worcestershire, garlic, salt and pepper) just underdone. Then I made a mushroom gravy with some of the red wine I'm drinking and beef stock and chopped mushrooms and a little more garlic (and flour to thicken of course).
The biscuits come 8 to a can so I used two per burger. I flattened them out, dropped a slice of muenster cheese on the bottom one, then the burger, then a couple spoons of the gravy, then the top biscuit and baked them according until brown.
I know I'm not a real cook or anything but she was happy to be served and it was edible.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)I'd say you're a real cook, and I'm sure she was touched by your thoughtfulness.
Congrats!
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)I don't know what most of the proper terms are but I can follow directions pretty well so I get some cooking done now and again.
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)I'll have to keep that recipe in mind.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)and I feel safer experimenting on burger than on Filet lol. I just used a recipe for mushroom gravy off the web and heard about using biscuits somewhere. It came out pretty tasty. I substituted some of the stock with the the wine.
Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)ChazII
(6,198 posts)job and I bet she appreciated your effort.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)It was thoughtful of you to relieve your wife of cooking duties. Sharing them with your daughter was a wonderful experience for both of you, I'm sure.
I've always maintained... if you can read, you can cook! Keep up the great work OriginalGeek!
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)She has let me know I am welcome to make this again lol. This was the third version I've tried and definitely the best. We've tried it before with Pillsbury crescent rolls and with a jar gravy but making the gravy was much easier than I thought it would be and the biscuits were easier to use than the crescent rolls.
Oh, I did make the gravy in the same pan I had fried the burgers in - had to dump a lot of the grease out but left some for flavor...
We also had red velvet cake for dessert but I just bought that from Publix - they make a pretty good one.