Winter Meals: Beef Stew
Are you a bread or dumpling person?
Easy preparation is my style. Thus, a bread person here. I also like Bisquick dumplings, for the texture and flavor.
My watery beef stew is perfect for dumplings or bread. Changing back to adding beef stew to my chicken mostly menu feels right. The beef had barely any fat on it. I use corn or olive oil to brown the peppered flour coated beef chunks before adding water (or sometimes broth). Corn oil adds a flavor dimension olive oil doesn't have.
This round I use olive oil, dice onion, carrots, chopped kale, and water. Seasoning is garlic pepper, black pepper, tumeric, dash of celery salt and a dash of allspice.
I will use fresh kale the next time because frozen has too many hard bits of stem for a beef stew. As a side, frozen kale is okay because I can pick out the stem pieces. Frozen kale is also handy to put in with a cup of chicken noodle soup mix.
good morning, sounds delicious
ReplyDeleteHi Kathy,
ReplyDeleteThe stew is delicious. Doesn't look attractive on my work shirt though. lol.
Stew is such a comforting winter dish!
ReplyDeleteHi Marie,
ReplyDeleteComforting, yes. I remember you posting a photo of your stew. I think it has helped inspire me to make stew.
Bread ~ sounds and looks delicious! Xo
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Carol,
ReplyDeleteGarlic bread and soup is a favorite winter meal.
We are supposed to get some snow which could actually leave a few inches accumulation, so now I am wishing there was some stew meat available. We have some leftover beef roast which will have to do instead (sigh). yes bread is always a great accompaniment!
ReplyDeleteBeatrice,
ReplyDeleteMake a soup stew.
Veggies and meat.
Stay safe from snowy roads!
My mother would vary between shepherds pie, Irish stew, and a Dutch dish called hutspot- stewing beef, potatoes, carrots, and onions all mashed together.
ReplyDeleteWilliam,
ReplyDeleteHutspot sounds delicious. Your mother must have been a good cook.
Definitely bread. Beef stew sounds awfully good today!
ReplyDeleteJeanie,
ReplyDeleteBread and butter sopping up broth is wonderful.
Your beef stew looks delicious. I haven't made it in a long time. I'm sure all the spices you used made it so tasty.
ReplyDeleteHave a nice break from blogging, and I'll be here when you return.
~Sheri
Sheri,
ReplyDeleteI was lucky to buy such lean stew meat that cooed up very tender. The last I bought was rubbery.
Bread is a good accompaniment to beef stew, and easy. My mother always makes baking powder biscuits with beef stew, and that's a real treat.
ReplyDeleteLorrue,
ReplyDeleteBiscuits! Love them!
They are great with anything.
:)
Beef stew sounds perfect right now. Do you mean bread or dumplings in the soup? If so, definitely dumplings. I've never made them before though.
ReplyDeleteBecki,
ReplyDeleteFrom scratch, dumplings are like making biscuits, a wonderful skill to have.
Stew is definitely a warm and comforting winter dish.
ReplyDeleteI have fond memories of the ones my dear mum used to make, and always with dumplings :)
All the best Jan
Jan,
ReplyDeleteDumplings were what my mom also made. They were perfect and from scratch. I think the skill missed my generation. :)