Re: Thursday Night Chow? 2/13/2025

On 2/13/2025 8:53 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-02-13 8:06 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote:

On 2/13/2025 6:42 PM, Carol wrote:

 

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I simply cannot imagine preferring canned beef stew to an actual homemade beef stew.  But given the price of beef right now, I wouldn't be making beef stew right now, either.
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  It may depend on what they are used to in home made stew. When I was a teen I had a friend who would be upset whenever he learned that his mother was making stew for supper. I didn't understand because my mother made pretty good stew but one day I got to sample his mother's stew. It was  horrible.
 My wife makes incredible stew. I do most of the grocery shopping and often pick up stewing beef, usually at least two pounds worth to ensure there will be enough for two nights worth. It is even better as leftovers.
 

When I was growing up my mother alternately made two kinds of beef stew.   One version was thick and meaty and had drop dumplings cooked on top. (That recipe came from *her* mother.)  The other was my dad's mother's version and it was more like a vegetable beef soup (the broth was practically clear) than a stew.  I much preferred the former, especially since she'd often sneak turnips into the latter.  I don't care for turnips.  It was sometimes difficult to figure out which was a chunk of turnip vs. a chunk of potato.
Jill