Cooking Class with Caleb: Beef Stroganoff

For this cooking class, we were making a main dish to serve 10.  We chose to make Beef Stroganoff.  The recipe:  http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/beef-stroganoff-recipe/index.html

The specified four servings per recipe are extremely generous, but we doubled the recipe, using 3 pounds of beef and adding a bit more broth to stretch the recipes.  Another change we made was to add a splash of sherry to each finished sauce to round out the flavor.  We did use pre-sliced mushrooms for expediency since this was an after-school class.  In our final seasoning we used both Murray River Flake Salt (a pink salt) and a bit of smoked sea salt (a black salt).

Caleb did an awesome job learning to cut an onion, using the boning knife to trim fat off the beef and kept pace with me as we each cooked one recipe of the stroganoff.  He also did a great job of clean-up, being careful to return the kitchen to it's clean state.  His dinner received rave reviews from his family as they gobbled it up!