Cutting up Vegetables for Stew

We don't make stews often enough, in my opinion.

@DaddyEvil - I used to make stews more often in the past.

@LadyDuck So did we.

Yes to potatoes, green beans and garlic powder is a must for a stew. I won't eat peas.

I think u can put any vegetable of your liking to the stew...the more the merrier..well healthier here

@DaddyEvil Peas not even on your knife like my Grandpa did?

@DaddyEvil Same here!! I am limited on the peas. I will eat them in though in a stew, but a whole serving of green peas as a veggie with a meal is not my favorite.

@kareng I can't stand the mushy feel in my mouth. I won't eat butter beans, either.

I don't like peas so we don't buy or use them. But most anything else is welcome in a good stew! Some people think stew is a cold weather food. We will eat it all year round.

@DaddyEvil I suppose we all have our own favourities.

@allknowing Yes, that's true.

I'm sorry. I think it's really good.

@DaddyEvil I love stew, and sometimes I will add dumplings to it just before it is ready to come out of the oven, that is delicious too.

@Juliaacv I agree, dough twists added to a stew just before it's done is delicious, too.

We don't add peas but we do the rest of those... I'm glad you enjoy stew, as well.

Yes, it is... It's delicious all year round!

@MarieCoyle I don't know how expensive it is. I don't ask for steak often. We usually buy hamburger. Pretty bought two steaks a week or so ago. I fried them and then made a steamer bag of mixed veggies to go with them.

@DaddyEvil I remember when beef for stew was very inexpensive....not that long ago, actually. Now it is usually about the same price as a roast or a round steak per pound. We eat very little red meat. From what I have read, we are going to be paying even more for it, so when I have it I enjoy every bite!

@DaddyEvil Tell Pretty I said she's a tyrant..

@snowy22315 I'll tell her but she won't care...

I don't know... Pretty buys everything for us now so I don't even go into the stores. If we can't afford something I ask for, she just doesn't buy it. (Sometimes she decides if I NEED something and, if she doesn't think I should have it, she says we can't afford it. )

Thank you. It will be many good meals.

Thanks. It's still not done. The carrots are still chewy.

@rakski I like the carrots soft...

@DaddyEvil that's great. I like chewy carrots

A slow cooker works really well. You just add whatever to it, set the temp and leave it alone until it's done. I've never used sweet potatoes in a stew. I always use white potatoes in it.

@lovebuglena I don't like sweet flavors cooked in my meals. I'll eat a sweet dessert after the meal, though. I don't know why I don't like something sweet during the meal.

@DaddyEvil it’s really good. I’ve used the sweet potatoes and also the oriental yam. This one is white inside.

That sound delicious! Unfortunately for me, Pretty won't eat mushrooms. When Pretty was little, I used to pick morels out in the pasture, soak them overnight (to evict any bugs trying to live on them), slice them up, roll them in spiced flour and fry them in butter. Pretty LOVED those. After my family sold the farm, we don't have a place to pick morels anymore.

I'm sorry... I don't have a problem with cutting up onions. I've heard you can cut them up under water but that just seems silly to me. Maybe you could wear glasses to keep the fumes away from your eyes?

We don't buy beef often so when we do, we buy what we want. (I do ask for ground beef once a month or so. Pretty buys a 5 lbs tube of the 80/20 beef and a 2 lbs tube of the Premium pork sausage and I break those down into 1 lbs mix packs for the freezer.)

@porwest Walmart here doesn't carry a 10 lbs tube. The 5 lbs tubes are the largest they carry. You know, not everybody is like you, right? Some of us do what we can and count ourselves lucky. Being an as shole about it only makes me not want to talk to you. I feel sorry for your wife, having to keep working while you goof off all the time, just so you can have health insurance.

@DaddyEvil I do that but usually get the 10-pound tube. I make one into a two-pound pack for meatloaf and the rest are in 1-pound packs. I just prefer to never waste money needlessly, and so for me, saving a buck a pound to cut my own beef stew meat just makes sense to me. Save on the things you need so you can afford the things that you want. I guess if you want to save two minutes and waste $4 or $5...you've accomplished that.

Chicken stew is delicious, too. We don't make that very often, either. (She hates chopping veggies up but I don't mind. She just has to let me know how she wants something cut up and I'll cut it up and store it in the fridge until she's ready to use it.) I do most of the cooking here so I'm used to cutting up veggies. Onions make her eyes water while they don't bother me. Do you grow the spring onions yourself? (We call those green onions or bunch onions and we grow them in a container on the front porch. I go out and clip the green tops of them off and slice those up in different foods I'm making and leave the onion in the ground so it grows more tops to use in about a week or two.)

@Dreamerby Oh, I see... Most people buy them here, too. We just buy them one time at the beginning of spring and plant the onion bulbs and harvest the green tops all summer and into the fall every year.

@DaddyEvil Nope here we buy everything from the bazaar in our locality. I mean some people do but mom has already so much work in hand.

@DaddyEvil she will be healthier without the extra salt but I prefer things to taste best by using it.

@shaggin She doesn't avoid salt in anything else and will usually eat almost anything I cook, which definitely has enough salt that I can taste it. She always tries to get me to eat stuff with no salt and I just add salt to it later.

I used to pick the meat out of the stew when I was little. Mom would get so mad at me and then she'd eat the veggies I didn't want. I think it all tastes delicious now. Pretty doesn't like much salt in stew so I always have to sprinkle on more after I take a bowl out of the crockpot. It would taste better if the salt was cooked with the meat and veggies but it's still okay adding it later.

@DaddyEvil I use seasoning salt, onion salt and a little bit of garlic.

@jstory07 We use seasoning salt. I just cut up onions and use garlic powder. I don't need or want too much salt in my foods.

You're right, there's nothing better than a good stew. Pretty didn't add enough salt for my liking so I add a bit more after I take a serving out of the crock pot.

@DaddyEvil

We eat it year round, too. I just don't want peas or lima beans in it.

@LindaOHio I always soaked them overnight in saltwater. That's supposed to clean them.

I say yes to all those but Pretty won't eat mushrooms. She says they taste like dirt. I tell her it's the best tasting dirt I've ever eaten.

@DaddyEvil They only taste like dirt if you don't clean them!!!!!

Those ingredients all sound delicious in a stew.

@DaddyEvil as long as those spices are not processed. I like them very fresh.

I love to cook and do most of the cooking done here. Once in a while, Pretty will ask me to cut up veggies for something because she hates that part of cooking. (Onion fumes burn her eyes and make her cry but they don't bother me.) I'm glad you have people around you who know how to cook. You'd starve if you had to do it very often.

@Shivram59 Your wife and mother don't ask you to help them in the kitchen once in a while? I helped my mom all the time when I was younger. That's how I learned to cook.

@DaddyEvil I had once cut onions and it was a horrible experience. My eyes became full of tears and I was unable to keep my eyes open. One of my sister's is married. Another is with me; but she will get married; too; this year. Now my wife and my mother are with me and they both are great cookes.