In this hearty episode of Heartland Hot Dish, we trace the journey of beef stroganoff — a dish with aristocratic Russian roots that found a second life in American kitchens and Midwest church cookbooks. What began as tender beef in a rich sour cream sauce has morphed through the decades into everything from family-friendly weeknight dinners to beloved potluck staples.

Toady Marcy, Daniel and Max dig into:

• Origins & history: How a 19th-century Russian nobleman’s chef first created the dish with potatoes not noodles, and how it traveled across Europe and into American cookbooks.

• The Midwestern makeover: Why beef stroganoff, often ladled over egg noodles, became a comfort food favourite in the Midwest, complete with shortcuts like canned mushroom soup and Marcys mums recipe and her love of sour cream.

• Cultural snapshots: Stories of family tables, casseroles, and recipe cards that made stroganoff a symbol of practicality and nostalgia.

Warm, creamy, and deeply satisfying, beef stroganoff is more than just a dish — it’s a taste of migration, adaptation, and memory on the plate.