{"id":1503,"date":"2010-05-12T23:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2010-05-16T18:00:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T00:00:13","slug":"springtime-beef-stew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=1503","title":{"rendered":"Springtime Beef Stew"},"content":{"rendered":"<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-follow synved-social-size-48 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Follow us on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DriftlessAppetite\" style=\"font-size: 0px; width:48px;height:48px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Follow us on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-follow\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" style=\"display: inline; 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by Julia Child and Alex Prudhomme catches my eye and I&#8217;m transported into\u00a0Julia&#8217;s life of zest and unbounded enthusiasm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the fridge, I had some morels that I\u00a0got\u00a0for $10, a steal, for the entire pound, some ramps and parsley from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mineralpointmarket.com\/shooting-star-farm.htm\">Shooting Star Farm<\/a>, asparagus from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mineralpointmarket.com\/bures-berry-patch.htm\">Bures<\/a>, and\u00a0skirt steak from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mineralpointmarket.com\/marrs-valley-view-farms.htm\">Valley View<\/a>.\u00a0 I thought about Julia&#8217;s famous boeuf bourguignon recipe which I have been wanting to try for awhile, but I didn&#8217;t have all the ingredients nor the time to follow her recipe properly.\u00a0 The solution, just make up my own beef stew.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0decided to make a lighter version by using white wine and my spring vegetables.\u00a0 It turned out really well.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0cut up chunks of day old\u00a0French bread and put it\u00a0at the bottom of the bowl then\u00a0ladled some of the\u00a0meaty gravy and vegetables on top.\u00a0 Delicious!\u00a0 By the way, the forecast says &#8220;sunshine&#8221; for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/beefstew.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1504\" title=\"beefstew\" src=\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/beefstew.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/beefstew.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/beefstew-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RECIPE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A Springtime Stew<\/p>\n<p><em>Ingredients<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>2 strips of bacon<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1\/2 an onion<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>2 cloves of garlic<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1 tsp. dried thyme<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1 tsp. dried celery<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>salt<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>pepper<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1 1\/2 lb. skirt steak (cut into cubes)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>2 T. flour<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>2 c. white wine (from <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wollersheim.com\/prairie_fume.asp\"><em>Wollersheim<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>2 c. beef stock<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1 T. tomato paste<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>2 laurel leaves<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>1\/2 lb. asparagus<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1\/3 lb. ramps<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1\/3 lb. morels<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1\/2 lb. potatoes<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>2 T. chopped parsley (to add right before serving)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Preheat oven to 450 degrees.\u00a0 (Use a medium sized enameled cast iron pot.)\u00a0 Cook the bacon until brown and crisp then add the onions and garlic.\u00a0 Brown the meat then add the dried spices.\u00a0 Coat the meat with the flour.\u00a0 Deglazed the pot with the wine and beef stock.\u00a0 Add the tomato paste.\u00a0 Cover the pot and place it in the oven.\u00a0 Lower the temperature to 350 degrees and cook for 3 hours.\u00a0 Wrap some potatoes in some foil and put it in the oven.\u00a0 Afer 3 hours, add the potatoes into the pot along with the rest of the ingredients (asparagus, ramps, morels).\u00a0 Cook for an addition 30-35 minutes or until the vegetables are done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thunder is rumbling and the rain is gently tapping at my windows.\u00a0 The wind is fiercely blowing, over 30 mph.\u00a0 Crash!\u00a0 A huge branch falls off the half dead tree in the front yard blocking one side of the street.\u00a0 The dog is whining at me because he needs to go out but refuses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-cooking","no-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}