Cooking
It's not much to look at, I know.
Simple, hearty stew from Sauces: Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making - onions, potatoes (twice), bouquet garni, beef stock & stew meat.
Hours of cooking, really great flavor (says Matt).
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Cooking
Irish Stew for Souper Sundays
It's not much to look at, I know.
Simple, hearty stew from Sauces: Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making - onions, potatoes (twice), bouquet garni, beef stock & stew meat.
Hours of cooking, really great flavor (says Matt).
- Because I'm Still Irish The Other 364 Days
Medallions of Beef with Port Sauce & Cashel Blue Cheese Everyone was making their colcannon & stew & lamb for St. Patrick's day...only my second-favorite holiday of the year (go ahead, guess what took the #1 spot?). Meanwhile...everyone...
- Italian Chicken, Bean & Pasta Soup For Souper Sundays
This was a pretty awesome soup. Making stock from the remnants of this roast chicken, & using the recipe for Pasta and Bean Soup from Tom Valenti's Soups, Stews & One-Pot Meals...proscuitto crisped in oil, then lots of veggies, Stock, water, potatoes,...
- Go Ahead And Kiss Me...irish Food For St. Pat's
When Zorra sent me an email asking me to join the St. Patrick's Day: Green or Irish event, I immediately wrote back and said she could count on me. St. Paddy's is my second-favorite holiday (after Halloween, coincidentally). I am, in fact, Irish....
- Retro Recipe Challenge#4: 1918 Fall Favorites
My father-in-law continues his sorting and cleaning, and some months ago I was given a copy of the Rumford Complete Cook Book, published in 1918, that had been his grandmother's. This book is sufficiently old that baking instructions take the form...
- In Lieu Of: Grammy's Irish Stew
I'm coming up on my ten-year Vegetarian anniversary. Wow...ten years! It's been a good decade. The food ride has been pretty incredible. I could sit here all night, compiling a list of all the foods I've tried and added to my diet since I...