Beef Stew
 

In all my years of cooking I've never cooked beef stew, until tonight!

I softened onions, browned the beef with them, added a chopped stick of celery and 2 carrots and some Worcester sauce, then I covered it all with water and a beef stock cube

Will this turn out ok do you think? Or will it be putrid and I'd be better ordering takeaway??

Celery, Worcester sauce :yuk:

Sounds delicious apart from the celery and Worcester sauce.

It will turn out fine Lee although if you wanted it to thicken up quite a bit you should have browned the beef with some flour.

I wouldn't have used celery though I can't stand the stuff.

I wasnt sure about the Worcester sauce tbh but I put it in my mince and it always tastes nice! Carrots and celery were the only veg I had too.. Ach well if it's crap, I'll have beans on toast!

It's not how I'd make it but I've never tasted it that way so i couldn't say how it would turn out. When I make it, I put potatoes, carrots, onions sometimes turnip in a pot and use a stew mix with water and a stock cube. I then boil it and let it simmer for atleast two hours

Give it plenty of seasoning. Do you have any chilli's?

I was going to just stir some gravy granules in when it's nearly ready? Do you think that'll make it too salty??

My freezer AND oven have broken so I'm trying to do everything on the hob! :fist:

Nah that should be fine.

I also add either some tinned tomatoes or passata to my stews and casseroles, that's individual preference though.

Agree. Tin tomatoes > water.

What you gonna serve it with?

Are you crazy?! :omg:

..or add some red wine if you have any, Lee...

What's stew mix? I like the sound of this!
I've got chilli powder.. But the kids won't eat anything with chilli :sad:

I've got tomato purée?

..tinned tomatoes are great for sauces and in stews, Marsh...we'll do a bit of cooking together sometime...











..not that I'm a very good cook, mind...

This. Great tip. Forget the tinned tomatoes and add any kind of wine.

It just comes in a pack in a powder form and you just add water to it and use it as your sauce

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I know a lot of people won't believe me, but I have no wine! I've got vodka?

Vodka stew :laugh:

...vodka stew might be interesting...

..the kids would sleep well tonight with it anyway Lee...

ahaha Kirk would like this, just as I was posting here there was a quiz going on in the radio in the background and the answer to the question he asked was Stew :hehe:

:laugh2:

:clap1: My kind of cooks.

..:amazed:..