Fit for the Gods Oven Braised Beef Stew
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We’ve had some really cold days this past week or so, with heavy frosts on the ground in the morning and the days haven’t warmed up too much either. Before things get a chance to warm up the sun is setting and things are chilling up again! Wintry, cold, damp . . . these days call for proper comfort food.
There is nothing we enjoy better on a cold damp night than a hot bowl of soup or stew. Todd’s very favourite is a stew. Stews are lovely. You can make them with beef, or lamb, pork, chicken . . . venison. Almost any kind of meat is good in a stew. Today I used beef.
My vegetables that I use for stew are pretty simple. Onions, garlic, carrots, parsnips, swede (rutabaga) . . . humble vegetables, comfort vegetables . . . winter vegetables. I like to cut them into a pretty uniform size. I find there is something really mindful standing at the counter peeling and chopping. My mind is usually everywhere else and I am channelling my mom, nan, great nan, etc. I also add potatoes, but I cut those into larger chunks so that they don’t disintegrate in the long oven braising time.
One secret to a really good stew is to brown your meat really well. You will want to do this in batches. If you add too much to the pan at a time, it won’t brown really well. There is a lot of flavour in the browning . . . so do it in small batches and . . .
brown it really well. Once you have it all browned you can add it back to the pan and add the aromatics . . . (I use a flame proof oven roasting/braising tin with a lid for this.)
By aromatics I mean onions, celery, leek . . . just bung them into the pan with the meat and cook and stir until the oven has softened . . .
I have a few secret ingredients . . . you can see them above. Nothing too out of the ordinary, but they add fab flavours! The Balsamic adds a hint of red wine and sweet . . . the Worcestershire is a bit sharp and the Ketchup a bit of tomato and spice . . . back home I would add a splash of vinegar from a jar of sweet mixed pickles, but we don’t get them over here in the UK.
I add the potatoes and some herbs and cover everything with beef stock/bullion, just to barely cover and I show a broken bay leaf right down into the mess. Did you know that breaking a bay leaf helps to release its flavours? Now you do . . .
And that’s it pretty much, cover it tightly and bang it into the oven to oven braise for 2 or 3 hours. I check it every now and then to make sure its not boiling dry. You can add a little bit more of stock if it is. The stews done when the beef and vegetables are tender.
The gravy will be nice and thick and beautifully flavoured with all of those browned meat juices and aromatics, herbs, etc.
The vegetables add lots of flavour also . . . yummy.
I like to serve it with plenty of crusty bread to help sop up all of those delicious juices . . . .
If you wanted to you could add a cup of frozen peas to the stew about half an hour before it’s finished for colour. Its delicious either way.
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Beef Stew
Yield: 6
Author: Marie Rayner
A satifisfying dish on a cool and wet and wintery evening. Long slow cooking ensures that the meat is melt in the mouth tender.
ingredients:
- 3 TBS olive oil
- 2 onions, peeled and chopped
- 2 cloves of garlic, peeled and minced
- 1 leek, trimmed, washed and sliced
- 1 stick celery, trimmed and chopped
- 2 large carrots, peeled, sliced in half and then cut into half moon chunks
- 2 parsnips, peeled, quartered and sliced into 2 inch long bits
- 1/4 of a small swede, peeled and cut into 1/2 inch cubes (rutabaga)
- 6 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into quarters
- 2 1/2 pounds good quality beef stew meat, cut into cubes
- 2 TBS plain flour
- 2 pints beef stock (5 cups, or to cover)
- 1 TBS Balsamic Vinegar
- 1 TBS Worcestershire Sauce
- 2 TBS tomato ketchup
- 1 bay leaf, broken
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- 1/2 tsp dried marjoram
- salt and black pepper to taste
- 1 TBS chopped fresh flat leaf parsley to garnish at the end
instructions:How to cook Beef Stew
- Preheat the oven to 180*C/350*F/ gas mark 4.
- Heat 1 TBS of the oil in a large flame proof casserole. Add the beef cubes, working in batches. Try not to overcrowd the pan. Brown well on all sides. Scoop out to a bowl and continue to brown the meat until all is browned. Add the onions and celery. Cook, stirring until the onion has turned translucent. Stir in the garlic and cook for about a minute and then the herbs, seasoning and flour. Stir to combine. Cook for about a minute and then add the remaining vegetables and the stock. Stir in the Worcestershire sauce, Ketchup and Balsamic vinegar. Add the bay leaf and cover tightly. Pop into the preheated oven and oven braise for 2 to 2 1/2 hours at which time the vegetables and meat should all be tender. Remove and discard the bay leaf. Spoon the stew into heated bowls to serve. Crusty bread goes very well!
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I confess one thing I have always loved to do with stew, since I was a child is to mashe the potatoes up in that stew gravy . . . and if I am feeling a bit indulgent I will dot a bit of butter on top so it melts down into everything. Yes, I AM naughty like that sometimes!
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Eating meat is a CRIMINAL Religion of VIOLENCE and Psychopathic behavior. Eating meat is 100% unnecessary for human survival, and is also 100% heartless, uncaring, savage vampirish behavior.
It is a sad day in Hell whenever your FILTHY MEAT RECIPE stories get FEATURED on BIN, and a MAJOR kick in the groin to those of us who still have a soul!
Marie,
Please explain to us why you feel that you have the right to promote your 100% unnecessary ABSOLUTELY HORRID religion of Luciferian ritual sacrifice, violence and murder of INNOCENT LIVES, here on this PUBLIC FORUM, OR ANYWHERE EVER FOR THAT MATTER? As I have stated before, eating meat is 100% UNNECESSARY for human survival!
Would you take issue with people starting a religion to hunt down and murder members of YOUR FAMILY for the ritual eating of THEIR FLESH? If so, what valid argument could you POSSIBLY make which does not ALSO apply towards other sentient beings, including animals?
We do have on public record the origin of Luciferian entities introducing humans to the horrid practice of eating flesh, both in the book of ‘I Enoch’ and in the Sumerian records from which the vast majority of the Christian Bible was derived, so I am quite correct in terming this as a Luciferian ritual practice.
Originally, all of Gods creatures were vegetarian, and in the book of Enoch we learn that it was God’s
fallen angels (also translated as God/Gods in the Bible) who instituted animal sacrifice and the eating
of meat, not God the father. The morality of the book is plain; leave creation as it is; all alterations of
God’s creation are forbidden:
“And Uriel said to me: ‘Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and
their spirits assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into
sacrificing to demons as gods…” Chapter 19: 1, Ethiopic Book of Enoch, ed. by R. H. Charles.
And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one
another’s flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.
Enoch 7:5
Pertinent question for Christians:
Why Did God the Father Issue A Stronger Penalty For Eating Meat Than For Murder?
God tried to give the vegetarian diet to His newly formed church in the wilderness and as they
rejected the Manna from heaven, God punished them severely by raining quails on them from which they
died while the meat was still in their mouths:
“As they sinned yet more against Him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness. And they tempted
God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had
given them corn of heaven. Men did eat [fallen] angels food [meat]: He sent them meat to the full and
gave them over to their desire. They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet
in their mouth, The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down
the chosen men of Israel.”—Psalms 78:17-31.
So here, even AFTER the fall of man, God the father not only calls out the act of eating of meat as a
SIN, but issues a much stiffer penalty than what Cain received for murder! Could it be that in
Gods eyes, animals are more innocent/noble creatures than are human beings?
– Isaiah 66:3 KJV “He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man”
– Ecclesiastes 3:19 (KJV) “man hath no preeminence [superiority] above a beast”
To suggest we can use animals because we’re above them is self-refuting; it calls us to operate from
principles of animal behavior, denying the ethical and moral imperatives rooted in our spiritual nature,
the very thing that sets us apart from the animal kingdom.
“I will make for you a covenant on that day with the wild animals, the birds of the air, and the creeping
things of the ground; and I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land; and I will make
you lie down in safety.” —Hosea 2:18
“The unnatural eating of flesh meats is as polluting as the heathen worship of devils, with its
sacrifices and its impure feasts, through participation in it a man becomes a fellow eater with devils.”
(Saint Peter, Clementine Homilies)
“Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat”
- Daniel 1:8
“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which
temple ye are.” – I Corinthians 3:17
Christians should remember God’s commandment “Thou shall not kill” which includes the unnecessary killing of animals. The exact Hebrew wording for “kill” in Exodus 20:13/Deuteronomy 5:17, is “tirtzack”. One of the greatest scholars of Hebrew/English linguistics (in the Twentieth Century) -Dr. Reuben Alcalay – has written in his mammoth book the Complete Hebrew/English Dictionary that “tirtzach” refers to “any kind of killing whatsoever.”
Christian Institutions have a LONG HISTORY of conflating God the father with fallen angels, ALL of whom are referred to as God in English Bibles. God the father NEVER gave permission for humans to eat meat, NOT EVEN IN THE ARK STORY!
PLEASE READ the section entitled The Red Pill For Peace beginning on page 87 here for more information:
- https://drive.google.com/open?id=1C9OdDeUdi1B9rjz-2tFQM8v_bn4AfDEA
It will BLOW YOUR MIND!
One final point not covered in the e-book linked to directly above is that many of us who have researched Near Death Out of Body Experiences have encountered multiple testimonies of devoid lost souls wandering aimlessly and endlessly in darkness and in utter SELFISH despair. These people did NOT live in accordance with the Golden Rule (as Jesus commanded) which states to treat others as you would wish to be treated by others. Animals count as others!