Michael's Five Pound Stew
Ingredients:
4 tbsp oil
1/2 cup flour
1 1/2 tbsp garlic powder
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
2 tbsp sugar
5 lbs sirloin steak, cubed
5 lbs potatoes, cubed (not too small!)
1 lb carrots, cut or mini
1 lb celery
1 lb peas
1 medium white onion
3 cans beef broth
If desired:
a bit more flour for thickening
1 tsp rosemary
1 tsp thyme
1 tsp sage
Directions:
0. Cube the meat and potatoes; chop up the onion, celery, and carrots.
1. Mix the flour, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and sugar together in a bowl, and then roll the chunks of meat around until they're all covered.
2. Put the oil in your (large) pot and boil it. Dump the meat in and brown it all for a few minutes; be careful to continue stirring to prevent burns. Dump in the onions after a little bit to fry them.
3. Lower heat. Pour in beef broth, carrots, and peas. Add rosemary, thyme, and sage, if desired. Bring to boil, then reduce heat and cover. Allow it all to simmer for 90 minutes.
4. Add potatoes and celery. Carrots and peas can be delayed to this step, if desired. Personally, I like my celery and potatoes firmer than my carrots and peas. Add a little more flour (3 tbsp or so) for thicker stew. Make sure you stir it in so you don't get lumps! Simmer for another 30 minutes or so.
5. Enjoy tasty stew. Serves one. (Or maybe a dozen.)
I suppose this works in a crockpot if you brown the meat first. 5 pounds of meat? wow.
Serve with Wacky Hermit's homemade half-wheat bread.
What it really needs is two more pounds of veggies. Corn, maybe? What else?
LIFE LIKE STEW!
STEW LIKE LIFE!
Glurp like stew. All gully dwarfs like stew. Me no know why.
Ugh! That is NOT the correct way to make stew.
S3: Don't impose your Euro-centric patriarchal stew-paradigm on me!
(Sigh) ...some people's children.
When you advised me that increasing blogging entries required lowing the bar of what to write, you weren't kidding! :-)
DM: Hey, everyone likes stew!