|
|
|
Author |
|
Message | |
|
cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 32429
|
Posted: Thu Nov 04, 04 3:18 pm Post subject: Beef and Blewit Stew |
|
Just picked up an eigth of a Gloucester bullock, which we're splitting with some friends. First time we've dealt with this farmer, and we've been delighted with both the husbandry and the sheer enthusiastic craziness of the farmer. This one hasn't been cut up -quite- how we would have chosen, but hey-ho, that's not a problem next time we'll plan further ahead and be way more specific.
Looking through bags of beef last night, I picked out two pounds of neck beef for a stew (yes, I know, I could have gone for a bit of fillet or a bit of sirloin, but I'm a sucker for a good stew). So our dinner was:
2lb 'stewing' beef
3/4lb field blewits (a common late autumn and winter mushroom, VERY tasty and aromatic)
Stock vegetables
Stock
Red Wine
Herbs (bay, thyme and parsley; the Holy Trinity, in my opinion).
Salt and pepper.
I guess it goes without saying, but we chopped and browned the stock veg (carrot, onion, celery) and added the beef, in turn browning that before de-glazing the pan with wine, to half cover the meat. Added stock to cover the meat up to two-thirds, then added the blewits (safe in the knowledge that water coming out of them would make enough fluid). Added the herbs, bunged in the oven (170ish) for two hours.
Poured off a little of the sauce, tasted it, and thickened it with flour and butter before adding it back in to make the whole thing nice and thick. Asjusted the seasoning and put it back in for another hour.
Served with carrots (steamed through in the oven with a little butter and ginger) and fresh bread out of the machine.
Blewits make this dish quite extremely aromatic, they have a superb flavour quite unlike most other mushrooms. Next time I do this I'll be adding some junper berries too, they go with blewits very nicely. |
|
|
|
|
tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45672 Location: Essex
|
|
|
|
|
Jonnyboy
Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 23956 Location: under some rain.
|
|
|
|
|
jema Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 28235 Location: escaped from Swindon
|
|
|
|
|
tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45672 Location: Essex
|
|
|
|
|
jema Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 28235 Location: escaped from Swindon
|
|
|
|
|
tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45672 Location: Essex
|
|
|
|
|
cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 32429
|
|
|
|
|
cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 32429
|
|
|
|
|
|
Archive
Powered by php-BB © 2001, 2005 php-BB Group Style by marsjupiter.com, released under GNU (GNU/GPL) license.
|