Another recipe sans photos-'Beef Stroganoff'
I have to tell the story about this because it has a sentimental connection to my parents and it's also an incredibly delicious dish. Sometime during my high school years my parents took myself and my little brother to visit friends of theirs that lived at Lake Tahoe. We had been there a few times before as a family so it's a favorite trip to take for us. Well, second or third day we were there, my mom started getting sick, I just remember them saying they were taking her to the emergency room because it was not good. If you know that area, at the time the closest hospital was in Reno, over an hour drive away. So my parents return and it turned out my mom's gall bladder had backed up. We had to cut our trip short by a day and get home fast so she could get to the hospital. Got home, we unpacked the car, dad drove mom to the hospital. The couple that were managers for our fourplex were good friends by then and when my dad came back saying mom had to have surgery for her g...