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waider ([personal profile] waider) wrote2002-09-24 09:36 pm
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home cookin'

There'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".

[identity profile] zadcat.livejournal.com 2002-09-24 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
>sautéing everything with pepper and salt

No bejeezus? Or did you boil the bejeezus out of it too?
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[identity profile] waider.livejournal.com 2002-09-26 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
I keep bejeezus for smooching.

Also, I'm now wondering if "bejeezus" is a corruption of "By Jesus!" or "Baby Jesus!".

THESE THINGS ARE IMPORTANT, PEOPLE!

[identity profile] merde.livejournal.com 2002-09-24 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
yep, that sounds like stew to me. only i make it in the crockpot, so i just brown everything, toss it in there, turn it on, and leave. 8 hours later i come back, dump some peas in, wait 20 minutes, and eat.

yum, stew.