{"id":8645,"date":"2013-10-07T08:11:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T13:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=8645"},"modified":"2013-10-07T08:11:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T13:11:49","slug":"finally-found-a-keeper-of-a-stew-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2013\/10\/07\/finally-found-a-keeper-of-a-stew-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally found a keeper of a stew recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span> am posting this here partly to share, but also because I want to remind myself how I did it so I can do it again!<\/p>\n

I have been looking for a hearty beef stew recipe for ages, and I’ve tried a few flops over the last few years, but this is the first one where I feel like I got it right. I started with this recipe<\/a> from Canadian Living, and followed the basic instructions here for browning the beef, adding the onions and the flour – I think this was the part that made it a thick, tasty stew instead of the more soupy stews I’ve made in the past.<\/p>\n

I didn’t have any stock, so I used a bit of something called Better than Bouillon with three cups of water and one cup of red wine. (I started out in the grocery store looking for bouillon cubes, but have you ever read the ingredients in those things? Yikes! I was trying to find one with less sodium, but they’re all thick with MSG. This is the only one I could find without it. I may just substitute veggie stock next time, as it was still a tad too salty.)<\/p>\n

So I put all that on the stove in a big pot around 1 pm and let it simmer. Around 3:30, I chopped up two turnips, a handful of fat mutant carrots from our Roots and Shoots share, most of a leek and two cloves of garlic (also from R&S) and dumped those in. About an hour after that, I chopped up four potatoes (also R&S – I love my CSA share!) and put those and another cup of water in. About an hour after that, I popped about 3\/4 of a cup of frozen peas and let it simmer for about 10 more minutes. So good! I learned today that if you put the veg in too early, it gets mushy, but leaving the meat to simmer for hours tenderizes it. <\/p>\n

I meant to take a photo before we ate it but it smelled too good and we were starving. See?<\/p>\n

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I’ve been working really hard lately on making dinners from whole foods sourced locally where possible. We did pretty good on this stew – most of the veggies were from Roots and Shoots (the farm is about 3 km from here) and the beef was from O’Brien Farms in Winchester via the Manotick Village Butcher. Best of all, four out of five of us loved it and the fifth one tolerated it, so I’ll take that as a win.<\/p>\n

Time to swap out the BBQ for the soup pot. Got any good soup recipes to share this autumn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am posting this here partly to share, but also because I want to remind myself how I did it so I can do it again! I have been looking for a hearty beef stew recipe for ages, and I’ve tried a few flops over the last few years, but this is the first one … Continue reading “Finally found a keeper of a stew recipe”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8647,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions\/8647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}