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Wandering the aisles of the grocery store this morning trying to think of something to make today. Wait! St. Patty’s day is coming and I almost forgot. Guinness beef stew and Irish soda bread would be just the ticket. Just needed meat, so I grabbed a chuck tender roast. 

Cut the roast into pieces, removing most of the fat. Browned in enameled cast iron Dutch oven (my favorite utensil) and then it gets onion, celery, flour, tomato paste, diced tomatoes, thyme, rosemary, bay leaves, beef broth and Guinness. After that simmered for about three hours, I added in diced carrots, taters and parsnips. 

Got to thinking about dishes I’ve seen where the stew is served with some mashed taters. What could be more Irish?? Thought that sounded good so I diced up a couple bakers and added minced onion—thinking colcannon-ish— and parsley, cream and butter. It turned out really good, and I’m updating my recipe to include that in the future. 

Soda bread with currants and cranberries. I make mine on the sweet side with some raw sugar on top. 

Irish itch scratched. 

[ness]

By the way—ever wonder about the widget in a can of Guinness? Well, I did:

[Deadstream]

Nice Dutch oven, Very nice! bread and last widget I tore out a Guinness looked like a tiny barrel.?   But were is the  stew?    HA! was looking so hard at  the bread I missed the stew...    Nice!

[Johnsfolly]

5 hours ago, ness said:

By the way—ever wonder about the widget in a can of Guinness? Well, I did:

Do you think that the guys that make widgets complain when folks use the phrase "were not making widgets"? Is there a possible movement to rephrase as to not offend or belittle the global widget makers throughout the world? Maybe bring back Doohickey or thingamabob?

[Johnsfolly]

10 hours ago, ness said:

Got to thinking about dishes I’ve seen where the stew is served with some mashed taters. What could be more Irish?? Thought that sounded good so I diced up a couple bakers and added minced onion—thinking colcannon-ish— and parsley, cream and butter. It turned out really good, and I’m updating my recipe to include that in the future. 

Soda bread with currants and cranberries. I make mine on the sweet side with some raw sugar on top. 

Ness - this looks great! You definitely captured the spirit of champ potatoes, an Irish staple. Your soda bread looks too flavorful and not as dry as I remember having in Ireland. I would prefer your version!

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16 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

Ness - this looks great! You definitely captured the spirit of champ potatoes, an Irish staple. Your soda bread looks too flavorful and not as dry as I remember having in Ireland. I would prefer your version!

Thanks. Yeah, the bread is pretty dang good. It’s got butter cut in and plenty of fruit. It’s not dry, but there’s a nice crunch on the outside. Nice with a little butter on it. 

Here’s a closeup. 

Had to lookup champ potatoes. That’s probably closer to what I did than colcannon. Seems colcannon can be a lot of things, but cabbage is mentioned most. 

[Terrierman]

23 hours ago, BilletHead said:

   and with wild turkey

Now you're talkin'!

[Terrierman]

I'm boiling bratwurst in beer.  Baked beans alongside.  Have I mentioned how tired daylight saving time makes me for the first couple of days?  One hour jet lag.  But still, jet lag.  So making it easy tonite.

[Terrierman]

14 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

Do you think that the guys that make widgets complain when folks use the phrase "were not making widgets"? Is there a possible movement to rephrase as to not offend or belittle the global widget makers throughout the world? Maybe bring back Doohickey or thingamabob?

They are "whatchamacallits" around here. 

[BilletHead]

16 minutes ago, Terrierman said:

They are "whatchamacallits" around here. 

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