A
great stew to turn the winds of November into a cozy evening. Grab
some cans from the pantry and conjure up some magic.
Ingredients:
2
lbs beef chuck roast
1
onion
1
can diced potatoes
½
baby carrots
1
can mixed veggies.
1
can stewed tomatoes
3
Tbs cornstarch
Directions:
Take
roast out of the refrigerator and let sit on the counter.
Make
sure you have oven rack low enough to hold your dutch oven.
Pre
- heat oven to 225
degrees.
Rough
chop the onion and cut meat into 2-3
inch
pieces.
A cutting Comment about knives!
Always have a sharp knife
It will save a lot of nuisance. A razor-sharp knife cuts the best! It is safer! Even a slightly dull knife can slip and go into your finger. A sharp knife cuts right where you put it. When you use a blunt knife you will automatically put more pressure on it, making the risk of accidents higher.DO NOT RUSH cutting!
In a professional kitchen the knives are sharpened every week. In the home kitchen getting them sharpened every year will keep them in shape depending on how much you use it.
The
tool on the left is called a “Steel”; technically it does not
sharpen the knife but it does smooth the edge. It removes burrs and
small traces of use. This makes it seem sharper. Since I cut in the
kitchen every day, I smooth out the blade every day.
This particular steel was my great-grandmothers and I'm very proud of it.
This particular steel was my great-grandmothers and I'm very proud of it.
Cleaning
I advise you to always wash your kitchen knives by hand. Even if the supplier states that the knife is dishwasher proof.A knife with a wooden handle will visibly get damaged and a riveted handle will eventually tear at the rivets. In addition, the handle can break because of the heat.
Aggressive detergents can cause irreparable damage to your knife. Detergent can affect hardened steel and plastics and can leave specs of rust on the blade and leave you with dull handles.
In addition, when you clean your knife in the dishwasher chances are that the knife will come into contact with hard objects such as cutlery that can damage the edge.
And if you don’t immediately turn the dishwasher on any food left on the plates (herbs, sauces, juices) can damage the blade leaving you with stains.
Spread
out the pieces of meat and sprinkle them with salt, pepper and
smoky
paprika
Spray
a dutch oven and mix the meat with the big pieces of onion.
Cover
and let it slow roast in the preheated oven for 3
– 4 hours!
Carefully
remove the meat with a slotted spoon to a dish and Cover.
Place
the dutch oven on a cold burner and with a wooden spoon scrape any
bits of browned meat off the bottom of the pot. This is a pure
wonderful flavor! It also makes clean-up much easier.
Let
this cool for about an
hour
and skim the fat off the top of the liquid.
Now
to make the stew.
Place
dutch oven on med-high heat. Add
the potato and carrots to the cooking liquid. Reintroduce the beef*
*you
will find there is plenty of meat, so use about a third of it, bag
and freeze the rest for casseroles or stroganoff!
Add
a cup of water and the can of stewed tomatoes with their juice.
Bring
to a boil – yes this will take time! Now reduce to a slight simmer
and let the flavors marry for about an
hour.
Taste
test and adjust any seasonings. Add the mixed veggies and cook for 10
minutes.
To
thicken I prefer to use a slurry made of 3 Tbs cornstarch blended with
½ cup of beef broth. Make sure it is dissolved and stir this into the
simmering liquid a bit at a time until the right thickness is
achieved. It will work quickly.
Also
you might choose to add a Tbs of pickle juice. If you wish a darker
stew, stir in ½ tsp instant coffee!
Serve
this with a loaf of crusty bread for dipping.
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Robyn
Ochs
Robyn
Ochs (born
1958) is an American bisexual
activist,
professional speaker, and workshop leader.
Her
primary fields of interest are gender, sexuality, identity and
coalition building.
She
is the editor of the Bisexual Resource Guide, Bi Women Quarterly, and
the anthology Getting
Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World.
Ochs,
along with Professor Herukhuti, co-edited the anthology Recognize:
The Voices of Bisexual Men.
For
26 years, Robyn worked as an administrator at Harvard University
where she was co-founder and co-chair of the LGBT Faculty and Staff
Group; an active member of the Trans Task Force; co-founder and
facilitator of LBTQ Lunches, a monthly lunch series for lesbian, bi,
queer and trans women faculty and staff; and a Faculty Advisor to
Harvard’s undergraduate student LGBTQ organization, currently
called QSA.
She
lives in Massachusetts and on May 17, 2004, the first day it was
legal to do so, Robyn married Peg Preble.
Robyn
served for 12 years on the Board of Directors of MassEquality,
Massachusetts’ statewide equality organization and for 3 years on
the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth.
Robyn
has taught college courses at Massachusetts Institute for Technology,
Cambridge, MA; Tufts University, Medford, MA; and Johnson State
College, Vermont.
Courses
included:
- Transgressing Binaries: Sex, Gender, Race and Sexual Orientation
- History, Community, Politics: Emergence of Sexual Minority Voices in the U.S. (aka. “The Gay Agenda”)
- Identity/Politics: Contextualizing Bisexuality
She
also serves a keynoter and educator in residence at Campus Pride
Summer Leadership Camp, a week-long leadership institute for LGBTQ
and ally college students; and on the faculty of the Expanding the
Circle Conference, a program sponsored by the California Institute
for Integral Studies designed for academic deans and administrators,
faculty and faculty development specialists, student life
professionals, campus counselors, students, and non-profit
professionals who seek to advance LGBTQ issues and concerns in the
academy.
Awards
- Campus Pride’s 2017 Voice & Action National Leadership Award.
- Listed on the Advocate‘s list of “50 States, 50 Heroes,” May 10, 2017
- Named by Teen Vogue as one of “9 Bisexual Women Who are Making History” on March 25, 2017.
- 2016 “Fabulous Five” award by North Shore Pride, Salem, MA.
- Bisexual Book Awards: In 2015, RECOGNIZE: The Voices of Bisexual Men won in the categories of Best Anthology; Best Non-Fiction and Best Writer; RECOGNIZE was also a finalist for a 2015 Lambda Literary Award
- PFLAG’s Brenda Howard Memorial Award, February 2012
- Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus Lifetime Achievement Award for Advocacy on the Harvard University Campus, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2009
- National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Susan J. Hyde Activism Award for Longevity in the Movement, Denver, Colorado, January 2009
- The University of Massachusetts Stonewall Center Continuing the Legacy of Stonewall Award, Amherst, Massachusetts, May 2007
- Reinaldo dos Santos Memorial Award for Bisexual Activism, Sidney, Australia, March 1997
- Super Bi Award at International Conference on Bisexuality – Stonewall 25 Celebration, New York City, June 1994
- Unity and Diversity Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Community, Amherst, Massachusetts,
Ochs
has appeared on a number of television talk shows, including Donahue,
Rolanda, Maury Povich, Women Aloud, Real Personal, Hour Magazine, and
The Shirley Show, to discuss issues relating to bisexuality. She has
also been in Seventeen and Newsweek.
Degrees
- Ochs has a Bachelor of Arts in Language and Culture, Latin American Studies from the State University of New York, Purchase. Additionally, she has a Certificate of Special Studies in Administrative Management and a Masters of Education from Harvard University.
Work
as a bisexual activist
Ochs
helped found the Boston Bisexual Network in 1983, and the Bisexual
Resource Center in 1985. In 1987, The East Coast Bisexual Network
established the first Bisexual History Archives with Ochs' initial
collection; archivist Clare Morton hosted researchers. The group
became the Bisexual Resource Center in 1993.
In
2002 she delivered the first bi-focused keynote during the National
Association of Lesbian and Gay Addiction Professionals. 2007, she
keynoted the Midwest Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Campus
Conference, the largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender
student conference in the United States.
Ochs
has served on the Board of Directors of MassEquality, Massachusetts's
statewide equality organization, since 2004.
She
has written frequently on bisexuality and LGBT rights and her
writings have been published in numerous bisexual, women's studies,
multicultural and LGBT anthologies.
In
2009 at the Creating Change Conference the National Gay & Lesbian
Task Force awarded Ochs the Susan J. Hyde Activism Award for
Longevity in the Movement. As she presented the award Creating Change
Director Sue Hyde told Ochs: "We hear your clear voice, we see
your staunch advocacy and we respond to your loving insistence that
our movement includes all of us."
Also
in 2009, Ochs received the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus's
Lifetime Achievement Award for advocacy on the Harvard University
Campus.
Ochs
received the 2011 Brenda Howard Award at the Queens NYC PFLAG
chapter's annual awards luncheon on February 5, 2012.
On
June 13, 2015, Ochs received the City of Cambridge's GLBT
Commission's annual recognition award for her work as an educator and
activist.
A
true LGBT leader and hero!
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