one bottle of beer = dinner for four
Some of my readers are going to think I've gone mad, but last night I sacrificed a perfectly good bottle of beer to make stew. Guinness stew to be exact. I had clipped a recipe from a magazine some time ago and it kept ghosting around in my head so I finally decided to go for it.
The ingredients:
Lamb, onions, leeks, garlic, celery root, carrots, green beans, potatoes, parsley, bay leaf, thyme, beef broth and...a bottle of Original Guinness/Extra Stout.
The verdict:
Mr. M plowed his way through two platefuls.
Boy12 said, "This tastes a lot better than it looks. Can I have more please?"
Boy9 said, "I'm not eating that!"
And me? I'm not really a stew person, but I quite enjoyed it and I'm having leftovers for lunch today.
Status quo has been maintained.
posted by christina @ 1:36 PM
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Mmmmmmm! Looks delish! And hearty for this weather!
You mean you wasted a perfectly fine bottle of Guinness, which is a meal in itself?
Okay, it looks scrummy, but there's a principle here.
Ms Mac. - Thanks! We've been having the most awful weather so it's nice to have something warm and comforting.
Neil- Somehow I knew you'd say that. :-):-)
Sigh...relish...stew...I'm sorry, I'm not going to be able to come over for dinner...
:)
It looks great!
If I was a meat eater, I think I might have to come over for dinner sometime. :)
Can you pack some in Tupperware and send it down to Munich???
ahan
Looks very good. I love stew, but OrangeX isn't a big fan of it. Hmmm. Maybe if I tell him that there's beer in it??? Otherwise, I'll just make it for myself :-)
MMMMM. Looks even better than wabbit stew. How's that for anonymous?
Ooooh... that looks lovely!
I'm chuckling over the 29 comments that you had over a jar of pickle!
:-)
that looks like a good one! there's nothing like some stew to comfort sould in winter. it's so filling too! i have a question for you tho: is lamb popular in germany or do they mainly eat beef like we do in canada?
YUM! I'm not a beer drinker but I have made beer stew and used it to marinate steaks and both were delish. I'll have to give your recipe a try. It looks divine!
I see no conflict of interest here. One bottle of Guiness for the cooking, and five for the cook.
Sal
oh dear god, woman! Either cook for me or stop making me hungry! :)
I'm a vegetarian, so all this is lost on me but I thought for SURE you'd have used your jar of relish instead of beer in the stew since you said whatever you eat, eat it with relish. And your Guinness would be still in your fridge today! Why must I do the thinking for the two of us? LOL
Excuse me, Seawitch. But isn't Guiness a vegetarian drink?
Think I'll have a Guiness salad right now!
MMMMMmmmm beer!
MMMMMmmmm stew!
Beer *in* stew!
*passes out from lust*
mr. fabulous - You and Mrs. Fab are welcome any time. :-)
Wendi - Sure, come on over, we'll just pick out the pieces of meat! Only kidding. I've heard that some German restaurants will tell people that a dish is vegetarian, and when they get it, there's bacon in it and if they complain, the waiter says, "That's not meat, that's bacon!" :-)
Elemm - I would, but knowing how slow Deutsche Post is, I'd be afraid of you getting food poisoning! P.S. I can't post on your blog any more. I only see your most current post - no profile, no archives, no place to comment. Is that because of Firefox? I'm using IE6.
fahd mirza - Thanks for visiting. I have no idea what 'ahan' means but I hope it's something good.
canadian swiss - Yeah, I know - some people don't like their food all mushed up together. I think the stew woudld freeze really well if you left out the potatoes and cooked some up to add when you were heating it up again.
anonymous wabbit - you are SO wascally!
euro-trac - There is obviously more interest in relish than I had previously thought. :-)
Nyana - Yes, lamb is quite popular, but it's expensive. There's a large Turkish population in Germany so there's a good market for it, though. Germans seem to eat way more pork than beef. Pork is exremely cheap and plentiful here.
Alison - I'm not a beer drinker either but the taste doesn't really come through in the stew. If you google "Irish Stew" or "Guinness Stew" there are all sorts of variations and you can do what suits you best.
Sal - Listen, amigo, if this cook were to drink five bottles of beer while preparing dinner, there would BE no dinner. For day, even. :-)
J - You'll just have to move closer so you can come for dinner every night. If you have an oven, you could make this stew - it's fool proof.
Seawitch - Hey wait a minute, how do you know that I didn't eat my stew with beer AND relish and just forgot to tell you. Huh? Huh? :-)
Is it hard being a vegetarian in Greece? I keep thinking of that line from My Big Fat Greek Wedding - "What you mean he don't eat no meat? That's OK, I make lamb!" :-)
Sal - (slow Friday evening, eh?) Guinness salad? Now there's an idea!
*Mausi fans Lisa with crocheted potholder*
I'm not a stew person either but when I do make one it's always with Guinness - it makes it delish - and I usually add red kidney beans too.
Maus:
Every Friday evening is a slow one when you're 95 years old.
Sal
Sal - Tell me about it. I'm 96. :-)
It looks tasty but B won't eat lamb. He loves for me to make beef stew though.
This is definitely stew weather.
Dixie - A lot of the recipes I found after I had made this one were actually made with beef instead of lamb so you could easily substitute it.
Guinness drinkers seem to be VERY loyal to the brand name. They don't drink anything else + it's like smoking to them: They have to have a Guinness for each special occasion, or when they're bored. What do they put in it? Maybe some olive oil, lettuce flavouring, carrot extract, and balsamic vinegar...
Plus, you're not 96 people.
We're all 20 and still very beautiful.
With the possible exception of the beer, that looks and sounds good. Beer somehows always turns me off.
The stew looks wonderful. I'm reminding myself I gave up meat.
Looks divine. I cooked stew last night, but it certainly was not photogenic stew, like yours...
Wowzers! I'm not a stew person either but I won't turn away food made with Guiness! Yum!
It looks and sounds wonderful. Hmmmm.
Sal...The Guinness is perfect for vegetarians like me...the lamb, however, is not. LOL
Christina...You are 110% correct...you very well could have eaten your relish with your stew. But I can only work with the information I'm given from your blog. Jumping to conclusions is the only exercise I get. LOL And yes, Greeks will still cook me chicken, cheese quiches with bacon and grilled fish for me when they find out I'm a vegetarian. Lucikly for me, Greece has wonderful vegetarian meals...I just don't why BEING a vegetarian is so bizarre to them.
Christina, I don't know why. Which version of Firefox have you got? Because I switched back to version 1.0.7 after the latest (1.5.0.1) gave me such a problem with blogger.
You should be able to post comments normally on my blog. As for the posts themselves, I've put in a 'cut' on some posts where you have to click on "Click to continue reading", in order to read the full post. I did that so not to stretch the page with long entries and pictures.
Apart from that, Blogger is optimised for viewing with Firefox...thus, IE won't let you view it properly.
Hmmmm...that's weird. I don't know if other people are having problems like you're having with my blog or not. The 'cut' is an HTML-code built into the template. So, normally I would have to put in *span class="fullpost"* rest of the post */span* for the cut. But I found out that when I just put in *span class="fullpost"* without closing the tag at the end, the message "Click to continue reading" would not appear on the post (at least on my computer). I think it might be the cause of the problem. However, like I said, I don't know whether you're the only one experiencing the problem.
Maybe you should switch over to Firefox anyway. ;)
Yum!
Yum - that looks incredible. We might just make something like that tonight!
nononono beer works AWSOME in stew, I am surprised more people dont do it.
great for marinating steak too
This looks wonderful! Can I come to your house for lunch today????
Cyn
yummmmmmers. I love to put beer in chili... but that looks really good.
What's wrong with you, Woman--not a stew person?! It looks absolutely FABULOUS! Now if you had said you weren't a Guinness person, I would have understood :)
Time to post, dear. You're up to 40comments again! ;-)
Lamb stew is a personal favourite of mine - add the Guinness and I'd say you have the perfect meal for winter! :)
mmm...i love stew! and i love guiness! what a coincidence...
I have to agree with Sal...no harm done as long as you are drinking one bottle while drowning the stew with another.
CanadianSwiss is way too funny. I'm glad to see she's keeping you honest :)
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