Name: Cavanaugh's Beef Noodles with Tomatoes
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 Tablespoon oil or shortening; 2 pounds beef stew meat; 1 onion, halved and cut into slices; 1 cup flour; 2 Tablespoon Lawry’s salt; 1 teaspoon paprika; 1 teaspoon garlic powder; 1 teaspoon ground black pepper; 28 ounce can diced tomatoes; 16 ounce package Kluski (or similar) noodles; 1 paper lunch sack or gallon zipper plastic bag

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Sit down to a cozy dinner of Cavanaugh’s beef noodles with tomatoes. The thick egg noodles are perfect with beef make for a perfect comfort food meal.

plate of beef and tomato noodles with broccoli

Are you looking for a new dinner recipe to feed you family? Look no further!

Get your dutch oven out and stew some beef in a simple gravy and throw in some egg noodles. It will fill them up and have them coming back for more!

This is one of the recipes that MiMi has made over the years and couldn’t wait to share on the blog. Now, almost 4 years later I thought it would be fun to make it again and update the pictures a bit.

beef stew meat and onions in enameled dutch oven.

It was the perfect dinner to warm us all up on a snowy day. Little Dude loved it and so did my husband, even if he couldn’t help but to put a little cheese on top!

Now here is the original post from MiMi:

Once upon a time, long long ago when I was a little girl, we had neighbors by the last name of Cavanaugh. Mrs. Cavanaugh shared her noodle recipe with my mom, Maw Maw.

saucy beef and tomato mixture in dutch oven.

If I remember correctly, she entered and won a contest sponsored by Kluski noodles. The following is her recipe the way we remember it.

Maw Maw doesn’t know what she would have done with the original recipe. It’s possible that I finally convinced her to look for her recipe box.

I hope she finds it because she has some really good recipes in there. For the most part, she just memorized all of the meals she made and rarely used a recipe.

egg noodles in beef and tomato sauce in dutch oven.

She thinks I was probably between three and five years old when we got this recipe. I remember when she let me shake the beef cubes in the bag of flour.

I’m sure I had a lot of fun helping my mom make dinner. I know that I really enjoyed eating this meal.

Maw Maw suggests serving it with broccoli.

plateful of egg noodles cooked in beef and tomato mixture served with broccoli.

Whenever she has a tomato based meal, she likes to have a green vegetable as a side dish. If you give this recipe a try you will understand why it won a recipe contest and why we still prepare it this many years later.

-MiMi

A few more recipes from MiMi’s Childhood:

Maw-Maw’s Lamb Curry

Maw-Maw’s Scalloped Potatoes and Pork Chops

Great-Grandma’s Egg Noodles

Yield: 12 Servings