Good Stew Recipe

[arbitrary]

Now that its about that time in this area,

What are your good stew recipes? What spices do you use? The wife uses french onion soup mix and a crock pot. While it is good, I'd like to get away from prepackaged stuff.

Any ideas?

[MJ5150]

Espresso and cinnamon. A can of Guinness or other dark beer works too.

-Mike

[Phalex]

Fry up an onion, maybe a little celery in a half stick of butter.

Toss in cubes of round steak and about 2TBS of flour. (I like a bunch of black pepper at this stage.)

Cook until the meat's about done, and toss in cubed potatoes, carrots, parsnips..... What ever root vegetable floats your boat.

Toss in a can of beer, wine also works nicely, a bit of water, or some beef stock to get the liquid to where you want it, salt and pepper, some garlic, maybe some mustard seed, bring to a boil, cover and simmer for a half hour or until you're ready to eat.

[Hoover]

Originally Posted by Phalex

Fry up an onion, maybe a little celery in a half stick of butter.

Toss in cubes of round steak and about 2TBS of flour. (I like a bunch of black pepper at this stage.)

Cook until the meat's about done, and toss in cubed potatoes, carrots, parsnips..... What ever root vegetable floats your boat.

Toss in a can of beer, wine also works nicely, a bit of water, or some beef stock to get the liquid to where you want it, salt and pepper, some garlic, maybe some mustard seed, bring to a boil, cover and simmer for a half hour or until you're ready to eat.

/thread

[Skitch it!]

Just a suggestion, don't fry/seal the meat, add the cubes when the whole thing is together and on simmer, it keeps the meat tender and softer mmmmm ; )

[FL Knifemaker]

One thing comes to mind............

VENISON!!

[Phalex]

Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker

One thing comes to mind............

VENISON!!

Yup. The best stew is made with carrots off of the bait pile and the deer you shot eating them......

[macaroni tony]

Oooh...I like this thread. Keep it coming

[giacomini]

Originally Posted by Phalex

Fry up an onion, maybe a little celery in a half stick of butter.

Toss in cubes of round steak and about 2TBS of flour. (I like a bunch of black pepper at this stage.)

Cook until the meat's about done, and toss in cubed potatoes, carrots, parsnips..... What ever root vegetable floats your boat.

Toss in a can of beer, wine also works nicely, a bit of water, or some beef stock to get the liquid to where you want it, salt and pepper, some garlic, maybe some mustard seed, bring to a boil, cover and simmer for a half hour or until you're ready to eat.

When I was in Pennsylvania we used to make something like this, but we added a can of sliced mushrooms and 1/2 can of ragu sauce too. We usually had that with pasta.

Man, this got me hungry now...

[6jase5]

(Insert bassist website joke about "Stew" ham here)

[Skitch it!]

Don't forget to make dumplings to go in that stew, mix some herbs in with the mixture, don't make them too big, slightly smaller than a golf ball so they absorb a bit of goodness, nice winter scram ; )

[Bard2dbone]

Okay...

Start with a roast. I'm a Texan so beef is the default setting. But venison or buffalo are both awesome, if they are available where you are.

Sear the outside. Set it into a cast iron dutch oven or serious crockpot on top of two medium to large onions, four to six carrots, three or four pieces of celery, and a couple of pounds of assorted mushrooms, all sliced into bite sized pieces. Add two large cans of diced tomatoes, four or five peeled garlic cloves, a pound or so of sausage (I used Italian. Whatever kind you like is good.) Add spices and herbs as you prefer (I do the Scarborough Fair combination. You know, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.) Pour in a decent hearty red wine until the meat is about two-thirds submerged. I used a Pinot Noir.

Cook over low heat for what seems like forever. Over six or eight hours should do it. When the meat is literally ready to fall apart, lift it out with tongs and let it cool. Also cool the veggies-and-broth stuff in the pot. After the meat is cool, slice it in one inch sections. The fat should have solidified on top of the veggies-sausage-and stuff in the pot. Scoop off the fat and discard it. Put the pieces of meat back in and re-apply the heat.

While that is heating, boil some beef broth. Cook tortelloni in the beef broth. When they are done, put them in the pot with the meats-veggies-stuff. If it looks too dry, add some of the beef broth to loosen it up.

It's ready. Serve it in a bowl with a scoop of sour cream on top.

I don't know what to call this. But I made it this last weekend and it was a success.

Re-summary:

about four pounds of beef (Any cheap roast-like cut will do.)
couple of onions
a few carrots
some celery
some garlic
a BUNCH of mushrooms
a couple of big cans of diced tomatoes
a pound or so of sausages
a bottle of fairly hearty red wine
whatever spices you like

Cook all that low and slow. Then cut up the meat and strain the fat off the top.

Boil some tortelloni in beef broth.

Bowl it up with a dollop of sour cream.

Pretty good.

Add it to the pot with any broth you feel like you need to.

[jonathan_matos5]

cook celery and onion in butter until tender. stew meat of choice

then add in salt/ black pepper and garlic to taste

ad about 2-3 cups of water and cook in crock pot. for about 6 hours on the medium setting.

throw in the potatoes and carrots last so they don't over cook.

or just make an onion soup with beef stalk (ingredients above) and add stew meat

[arbitrary]

Thanks for the recipes; I'm excited to try them out!

[Hoover]

Originally Posted by Phalex

Fry up an onion, maybe a little celery in a half stick of butter.

Toss in cubes of round steak and about 2TBS of flour. (I like a bunch of black pepper at this stage.)

Cook until the meat's about done, and toss in cubed potatoes, carrots, parsnips..... What ever root vegetable floats your boat.

Toss in a can of beer, wine also works nicely, a bit of water, or some beef stock to get the liquid to where you want it, salt and pepper, some garlic, maybe some mustard seed, bring to a boil, cover and simmer for a half hour or until you're ready to eat.

Y'know, when I "/thread"-ed Phalex's recipe two months ago it was based purely on what I know about stew & cooking in general. But last night I decided to whip up some stew, & I remembered this thread. I printed Phalex's recipe, went shopping for a couple ingrediants that we didn't have in the house, and went at it. (My wife asked "where did you get this recipe?" & when I said "from the bass player's forum" she got seriously all Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!)

And I must say...I was right. Which is to say, Phalex was right: This is an awesome recipe for stew! De-lish!

[Phalex]

Originally Posted by Hoover

Y'know, when I "/thread"-ed Phalex's recipe two months ago it was based purely on what I know about stew & cooking in general. But last night I decided to whip up some stew, & I remembered this thread. I printed Phalex's recipe, went shopping for a couple ingrediants that we didn't have in the house, and went at it. (My wife asked "where did you get this recipe?" & when I said "from the bass player's forum" she got seriously all Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!)

And I must say...I was right. Which is to say, Phalex was right: This is an awesome recipe for stew! De-lish!

Huzzah! I wasn't sure if this was going to be a Hero or a Zero moment until I got to the end!!

Ya know.... I do have to pick up some stuff at the store on the way home tonight....... Hmmmmm.

[TBird1958]

I love Guiness stew!

Prep....


Saute the onion


Brown the beef then flour....


Onions (cooked) and carrots............


Add the Guiness!


Add the carrots and onion, simmer 1 1/2 hours.


With a half hour cook time left clean and cut up potatos for boiling and dice several prunes - toss them into the stew.


Potatoes, after boiling for 30 mins......



And mashed with milk, butter, salt and basil.



And when you're done.......open another Guiness to have with your stew

[MJ5150]

Did you take those pictures at work? The lighting is superb.

-Mike

[iamlowsound]

You guys are making me really hungry, I need to get my slowcooker out.

lowsound

[TBird1958]

Originally Posted by MJ5150

Did you take those pictures at work? The lighting is superb.

-Mike

Now that's way, way inside!