Re: Thursday Night Chow? 2/13/2025

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

songbird wrote:
 

ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:
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What's cooking tonight at your house?  Or are you heading
out for dinner so as not to get caught up in that Friday
night Valentine crowd?

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   beef stew.
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   songbird

 Mine was a very good soup posted a little ago
<https://postimg.cc/5YknNdBB> but your mention of beef stew made me
think of this.
 As I was clearing out last year's storm supplies (Not every day, taking
our time with it), I came across a can of Dinty Moore beef stew.  It
was one of those things that could be fixed up with some adding spicing
and in a real pinch, could be eaten barely warmed up at need.
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Dinty Moore brand canned beef stew was one of the things my parents stocked up on as "hurricane supplies", but truth be told I think my dad liked it.  Mom sure didn't feel like cooking actual beef stew from scratch anymore.  No doubt the canned stuff could have benefited from some extra seasonings.

I think they have changed the recipe and for one of the rare times, for
the better.  It was barely beefy water before and still more liquid in
ratio but now it tries to be gravy with actual beef flavor.  Humm!
It's still low on the culinary scale, ut with some minimal additions
reaches 'acceptable' now.  Needs added onions, thickener to help the
watery gravy, celery seed, black pepper and I think I'd add some garlic
powder (probably 1/2 tsp) then serve over rice.  This is the 15 oz can.
I recall they have one twice the size and don't know if it got better
too.

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.
Jill