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home cookin'
Sep. 24th, 2002 09:36 pmThere's a running joke among my online friends that Irish cookery consists of boiling things until they're all indistinguishable. While we've evolved beyond that somewhat, mainly through imported cuisine, I present to you an approximation of the Irish Stew I had for dinner:
Take potatoes, carrots, turnips[1], onions, and meat. Chop into about equal-size cubes. Do vague cookery-like things such as frying the onions, browning the meat, and sort of sautéing everything with pepper and salt, then toss in a bunch of water and a stock cube and boil the whole thing for an hour. When it's almost done[2], toss in some peas. Serve, it says here, "as-is with bread".
So there you go. BOIL THE HELL OUT OF IT.
And boy was it nice. And I have about half of it left for tomorrow, too.
1. I don't like turnips. I didn't bother with them.
2. I said BOIL THE HELL OUT OF IT. Obviously this means that "almost done" means "there's a little hell left, but not much".
Take potatoes, carrots, turnips[1], onions, and meat. Chop into about equal-size cubes. Do vague cookery-like things such as frying the onions, browning the meat, and sort of sautéing everything with pepper and salt, then toss in a bunch of water and a stock cube and boil the whole thing for an hour. When it's almost done[2], toss in some peas. Serve, it says here, "as-is with bread".
So there you go. BOIL THE HELL OUT OF IT.
And boy was it nice. And I have about half of it left for tomorrow, too.
1. I don't like turnips. I didn't bother with them.
2. I said BOIL THE HELL OUT OF IT. Obviously this means that "almost done" means "there's a little hell left, but not much".
