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8-5: Beef Stew Provençale

Adam Martin Group 08: Beef, Section 2: Main Courses July 12, 2016October 4, 2020bay leaves, beef, beef stew, black olives, boneless, braised, butter, carrots, casserole, celery, chuck roast, crushed tomatoes, dinner, dried herbs, egg-free, fairly easy, fairly inexpensive, French, garlic, gluten-free, herbs and spices, julienned, linked, lunch, melted, pan-fried, parsley, Provençale, red wine, red wine vinegar, salt, sautéed, sirloin, slow cooker, stews, untested, vegetables

Editor’s note: AHOY-HOY to everyone visiting from HungryBrowser.com! If you’d like to know more about this site, please visit THE COOKBOOK PROJECT–it’ll tell you what this is all about. I’m not the only author on this site–my husband Adam wrote the post below (it’s kind of a teamwork thing–there’s a LOT of recipes in this book). Thanks for stopping by, and feel free to check out some of the other recipes we’ve done! — 11/01/17

Beef Stew – Another classic recipe that Simply Delicious cannot get quite right. This dish tastes delicious, but isn’t quite what I would consider a beef stew. It’s almost like a simple Boeuf Bourguignon.

I used a slow cooker instead of the oven for cooking this dish. I apologize that some of the photos are blurry from trying to shoot down into that very slow cooker. Without any other photos in focus, I chose to display some of them in this post just for posterity.

18-17: Cooking Glossary I

Jamie Martin Group 18: Basic Techniques, Section 4: Cooking School November 14, 2015September 30, 2020al dente, au gratin, barded, basted, blanched, boiled, bouquet garni, braised, breaded, broiled, caramelized, coated, cooking class, cooking glossary, cooking school, creamed, cut in, diced, dredged, dusted, flaked, flambé, flute, glazed, glossary, how-to, hulled, julienned, kneaded

Here’s a new-to-you part of the book I want to start featuring. The last three chapters of Simply Delicious comprise their own section: Cooking School. These chapters detail more of the practical culinary knowledge required to execute recipes well, and teach some skills by going through some basic recipes.

I’m going to start mixing up the regular recipe entries with these Cooking School ones as well, which shouldn’t be too different. If anything, they’ll be a lot shorter–like this one.

Chapter 18 is about Basic Techniques. I thought that 18-17: Cooking Glossary I would be a good place to start. I used this same (complete) glossary when I taught cooking to K-8 kids in an after school program a few years ago, and I inserted a copy of it into the recipe book at the restaurant I used to work at. There’s also one taped inside my spice cabinet at home for reference.

7-55: Sunday Pork Stew

Jamie Martin Group 07: Pork, Section 2: Main Courses September 16, 2015June 19, 2020almonds, boiled, boneless, braised, butter, chicken bouillon, chicken broth, crushed tomatoes, cubed, deglazed, dinner, easy, garlic, inexpensive, lunch, melted, minced, paprika, pearl onions, peeled, pork, pork shoulder, purée, stewed tomatoes, stews, Sunday, toasted, tomato paste, tomato sauce, tomatoes, untested, vegetable bouillon, white wine, yellow onions

7-55: Sunday Pork Stew was part of a recent 3-recipes-at-1-time attempt, which also included 4-2: Green Beans with Hazelnut Butter and 4-4: Scalloped Parsley Potatoes.

I had originally intended to make a different pork recipe, but when faced with an unexpected ingredient shortage (someone used my mushrooms), I rolled with it and dug out another pork recipe for which I had ingredients on hand. This would have been better with pasta or rice, as suggested on the card, but dinner is dinner when you’re hungry.

8-18: Tangy Beef Rolls

Jamie Martin Group 08: Beef, Section 2: Main Courses June 15, 2014July 2, 20201980s, all-purpose flour, appetizers, beef, black pepper, boneless, braised, butter, chopped, chuck roast, cranberries, creamy, dinner, fairly expensive, fairly hard, garnish, gravy, green bell peppers, green onions, jam/jelly/preserves, leeks, lunch, minced, mushrooms, pared, parsley, pork shoulder, red bell peppers, round steak, roux, salt, sautéed, tangy, toothpicks, untested, veal, vegetable broth, whipping cream

Catching up after a few weeks of IRL obligations. Let’s get back to it.

This was one of the 4 recipes cooked in the batch I mentioned in 17-28: Pound Cake. I was making a large amount of food to store up while I was gone for a week, and one of those recipes was 8-18: Tangy Beef Rolls. Sounds deliciously 80s.

Book 2, Group 2 (Main Courses), Subgroup 8 (Beef) gives us card #18: Tangy Beef Rolls. How do you resist something beef-related that describes itself as “tangy”? Mine didn’t come out as classy as the one in this picture, but it was still definitely edible. And somewhat tangy.

6-24: Mushroom-Almond Chicken

Jamie Martin Group 06: Poultry & Game, Section 2: Main Courses May 11, 2014June 17, 2020all-purpose flour, almonds, black pepper, braised, butter, chicken, creamy, dinner, egg-free, fail, fairly easy, fairly expensive, Glendale apt, lunch, melted, mushrooms, port wine, red wine, salt, sautéed, seared, simmered, sour cream, toasted, untested, whipping cream

6-24: Mushroom-Almond Chicken tasted okay, but looked…odd. I’m not sure why mine came out mauve, but there you go. The picture below is definitely not mauve. This recipe was cooked in tandem with 6-8: Curried Chicken, due to an abundance of chicken.

As I mentioned before, mine came out in a slightly mauve color, which doesn’t seem to be the case on the recipe card photo. I don’t know where I went wrong, but at least it was edible.

6-8: Curried Chicken

Jamie Martin Group 06: Poultry & Game, Section 2: Main Courses May 5, 2014June 17, 2020all-purpose flour, boiled, braised, butter, cast-iron, chicken, chicken bouillon, chicken broth, chopped, curry powder, dinner, Dutch oven, egg-free, fairly easy, fairly inexpensive, Indian, lunch, melted, parsley, pot-roasted, revisited, salt, sautéed, seared, spice blends, stews, sweated, thighs, yellow onions

It’s been a while, my friends–life gets in the way, sometimes. But, we must still eat, which means we must still cook (when you get tired of ordering out). Get ready for a trio of chicken recipes, starting with 6-8: Curried Chicken.

I actually made this in tandem with 6-24: Mushroom-Almond Chicken, as I had a LOT of chicken that night. Both recipes are from Book 1, Group 2: Main Courses. Subgroup 6 is Poultry & Game, so there’s some turkey and duck recipes scattered in with a multitude of chicken recipes.

Let’s dive into some Main Course recipes–you don’t win friends with salad.