Beef Stroganoff as a cream, paprika, veal stock and white wine recipe. The Brazilian variant includes diced beef or strips of beef (usually "filet mignon") with tomato sauce, onions, mushrooms and heavy cream. Brazilians also prepare Stroganoff with chicken or even shrimp instead of beef. It is commonly served with shoe-string potatoes, as in Russia, but with the addition of white rice. Sometimes one can also see creative servings of "estrogonofe", such as a crepe filling, a topping for baked potatoes, or on pizzas. Many recipes and variations exist — with or without wine, with canned sweet corn, with ketchup instead of
Collops Collops A collop is a slice of meat, according to one definition in the "Oxford English Dictionary". In Elizabethan times, "collops" came to refer specifically to slices of bacon. Shrove Monday, also known as Collop Monday, was traditionally the last day to cook and eat meat before Ash Wednesday, which was a day of fasting and abstinence from meat, and part of pre-Lenten activities. A traditional breakfast dish was collops of bacon topped with a fried egg. At Christ's Hospital, which was founded before the reign of Elizabeth the First, the word collops was used on the menu to mean