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[MOPanfisher]

1 hour ago, ness said:

From mom’s old cookbook, Company Beef Stew.

Been a few minor tweaks over the 50 years we’ve been making it. No onions, 2 cans of potatoes, whole can of consommé and less tapioca.

 

I love a good beef stew.  Mine never have a recipe per se, and I just put in things I like (I add cabbage sometimes) and leave out things I don't like  (like celery) then season to my taste at the time.  Some fresh home made bread and jam and I am in cold weather heaven.  I once took a bowl of beef stew my mom had made and carried it to the deer stand with me, had a fresh cinnamon roll in my pocket.  Couldn't have cared less about any deer.

[ness]

10 hours ago, MOPanfisher said:

I love a good beef stew.  Mine never have a recipe per se, and I just put in things I like (I add cabbage sometimes) and leave out things I don't like  (like celery) then season to my taste at the time.  Some fresh home made bread and jam and I am in cold weather heaven.  I once took a bowl of beef stew my mom had made and carried it to the deer stand with me, had a fresh cinnamon roll in my pocket.  Couldn't have cared less about any deer.

I've got several good stew recipes, and sometimes I'll just wing it too. But -- this one is a family favorite so I don't mess with it.

My bossy big sister however, who can't leave well enough alone, has modified this a lot and has also tried to tart it up by renaming it 'French Stew'. The reason I happen to have a picture of the recipe is because when she visited last weekend she claimed it had 'always been called French Stew'. I had to prove her wrong.  

 

[Johnsfolly]

14 hours ago, ness said:

From mom’s old cookbook, Company Beef Stew.

Been a few minor tweaks over the 50 years we’ve been making it. No onions, 2 cans of potatoes, whole can of consommé and less tapioca.

 

Looks good buddy! I would have like the onions, but to each his own.

[Lancer09]

I finally got the ground turkey legs and thighs out of the freezer from this Spring. Decided I wanted to make some sausage from Rinella's cookbook.

2.5 pounds turkey, 14-16 oz. bacon ground in with it, an onion, two honeycrisp apples, (I added some garlic), S&P, cinnamon, brown sugar, thyme, lemon zest and I didn't have nutmeg, so I used some all spice.

Mix all the ground meat, spices, and cooked and cooled onions, garlic, and apples together.

Form patties, and vac seal to save.

Tried some and they are a PHENOMENAL alternative to normal breakfast sausage, the spices sweeten it up a bit, enough fat keeps them together and not dry like a straight turkey sausage. 

 

My dad is in the dakota's right now pheasant hunting and half the guys there don't love pheasant meat so I may be getting a few dozen pheasants coming my way to experiment with here before too long.

[ness]

1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said:

Looks good buddy! I would have like the onions, but to each his own.

You and my bossy sister would get along just fine!

I like onion too....

3 hours ago, ness said:

But -- this one is a family favorite so I don't mess with it

 

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2 hours ago, ness said:

You and my bossy sister would get along just fine!

I like onion too....

Peas!!!????  But no onions.   Oh the humanity.

[ness]

1 hour ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Peas!!!????  But no onions.   Oh the humanity.

They're only 'tiny' peas  

[snagged in outlet 3]

There is no tiny pea.  Remember “The Princess and the Pea”?

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3 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Peas!!!????  But no onions.   Oh the humanity.

Great line!

 

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Thursday's dinner: Shells with a cherry tomato sauce.