This
morning the TV and computer are issuing dire warnings of the
impending Ice Storm! Well weather will happen, no sense worrying,
just prepare and adjust. When I think of food to cure the storms,
images of tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches come to mind. So
this bad weather buster will focus on tomatoes and beef.
Stews
are usually a meat with a mirepoix (three vegetables) in a liquid.
Here the vegetables will be tomatoes, onions and carrots. The liquid
will be thick and rich tomato based soup instead of the more
traditional and clearer stock. This will be “hearty” and help
keep the insides warm.
Ingredients:
2.5
to 3.5 lbs beef chuck roast cut into 3 inch pieces
2
cans condensed “Tomato Bisque” soup
1
soup can of beef stock (low sodium)
2
cans stewed tomatoes, drained
2
medium yellow onions, rough chopped
1
cup baby carrots
1
tsp fresh basil
Directions:
Wipe
out and spray the large slow cooker. Set on low.
Do
your cutting: roughly chop the onions into large pieces, they will
break down as you cook.
Cut
up the roast into 3 inch pieces, removing as much of the fat as you
can.
Heat
2 tbs oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Brown the meat.
To
make it simple: place the pieces into the skillet in a clock-wise
manner finishing up with pieces in the middle. You are not cooking
these right now, just turning the red meat into brown. After 2
minutes, turn them once, going back around in a clock-wise
fashion. After a second 2 minutes, remove to a paper towel
lined platter. Continue with the rest of the meat in this fashion.
Place
about half of the onions into the cooker as a bed. Dump the browned
meat on top. Then the rest of the onions.
Drain
the stewed tomatoes and add them along with the contents of the soup.
(Hint: Always use a wooden spoon to remove soup from the can.
Scraping with a metal spoon will leave a bad flavor.)
Now
fill one of the cans with the beef stock and add that.
Distribute
the baby carrots over this and sprinkle with the fresh basil. (You
can find this in the produce section and is so much more tasty than
the dried stuff).
Cover
and let cook for 6 hours. Resist the urge to lift the cover
and fuss with it! It will be just fine.
This
serves well with a simple green vegetable and warm bread from the
oven. Enjoy this and prepare to cuddle!
For
our music:
So
happy to be serving my Master Indy
socialslave
To
satisfy and restore.
To
nourish, support and maintain.
To
gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to
nurture, assist, and sustain
…..I
cook!
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