Big Pot of Beef Stew
@jprtist (656)
Pueblo, Colorado
November 3, 2019 12:19am CST
Yum, I made a big hearty pot of beef stew to eat over the next few days. I should have made it last Sunday because the previous week was so cold, and tomorrow the weather gets good again.
I used stew beef, onions, pepper, bell peppers, mushrooms, potatoes, celery, carrots, tomatoes, garbanzo beans, garlic, lentils, and pasta elbows.
It tastes wonderful. I do need to learn to make stew with broth that is not cloudy. otherwise, it's perfect, and dense.
I made Grands, Honey and Butter biscuits to go with it. I will make sausage gravy, for the leftover biscuits in the morning for breakfast.
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@crossbones27 (49721)
• Mojave, California
3 Nov 19
If broth is not clear does that means the purity is off like water. I always figured ingredients just cloudy them anyway. I need to learn this point sounds important.
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@jprtist (656)
• Pueblo, Colorado
3 Nov 19
I'm not sure it makes any difference at all to the flavor, it's just that I've seen soup in really fancy places where the broth is colored, but not foggy. It tasted good too, I'd like to know the trick. Perhaps it's cooking the vegetables and meats separatly, then adding them to a filtered stock. I don't know though.
Maybe somebody else here can enlighten us.
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@crossbones27 (49721)
• Mojave, California
3 Nov 19
@jprtist It is interesting there is a lot of tricks to cooking. Its amazing how scientific it has become. 
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@jprtist (656)
• Pueblo, Colorado
3 Nov 19
@crossbones27 True, I'd love to get a chance to read that book on cooking one of the founders of Microsoft funded. It costs hundreds of bucks. I'm not sure, but I think it's called "Food Science".
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@Aquitaine24 (11813)
• San Jose, California
3 Nov 19
Vietnamese style beef stew is very good.
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@Aquitaine24 (11813)
• San Jose, California
4 Nov 19
@jprtist It has similarities to American beef stew but usually eaten like a soup with noodles or French bread.It is more spicy with peppers.
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@jprtist (656)
• Pueblo, Colorado
3 Nov 19
Not long, I use a pressure cooker, it really cuts the time. I set it for 35 minutes, let it cook, lose pressure, then added the tomatoes, and macaronis, pressure cooked it all for another 7 minutes.
I've done the same with slow cookers, but it takes 8 hours for the same results.
@JudyEv (342277)
• Rockingham, Australia
8 Nov 19
This sounds really delicious. I'm a great fan of stews and casseroles.
@kobesbuddy (78871)
• East Tawas, Michigan
4 Nov 19
Yummy, your stew sounds wonderful, I need to make some very soon!
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@LindaOHio (182044)
• United States
3 Nov 19
Yum!...for the beef stew and sausage gravy. Sounds like you're all set!
