Whimsy and Fate

Sometimes you gotta make yourself drink water and sit in direct sunlight, like some kind of wilted houseplant

I mean, this checks out. 

Sometimes you fall off the wagon for months. Sometimes you tell yourself you’re gonna start fresh on Monday and by Wednesday you’ve already fallen back off. Sometimes you have to restart a 100 times and it’s frustrating. But it will be okay. You can do this. One day at a time

Sometimes writing is crafting intricate foreshadowing and themes that delight your readers and sometimes it is realizing you forgot an entire character existed.

Oh, I've been there...

In 3 hours, add veggies. Potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnips, whatever ya got. Mushrooms are good too. I’ll add some dried morels, crumbled up. Will post again when we get to that point. 

Can recommend the above recipe, but with a dark brown ale instead of wine and with pickled walnuts added with the veggies

……man that sounds good too will have to try that sometime. 

As for the cut of meat; doesn’t matter get what’s cheap. Anything gets tender if you stew it in a crock pot for six hours. Spices can be tinkered with as you see fit. Add other veggies as you see fit. Nothing is set in stone do what you want, man. Sub beer for the wine, throw in pork, ‘s all good. Pour yourself some more wine or beer and play Skyrim for awhile. 

Note that the finished stew can be frozen in single portions and thawed in the microwave  later, and will feed either a family for a night or you for a week if you live alone. 

DO IT

Hey @systlin is there anything you’d recommend as a substitute for wine/beer to someone who can’t legally buy alcohol?

Beef stock. 

I don’t even know how i ended up fullowing your blog but now there is beef stew and i live for that.

I use salt, pepper, garlic powder, paprika, and allspice in mine.  Veggies are carrots and green beans (need to be in for ~30 minutes especially if using fresh GBs) and tomatoes added in the last 10 minutes (again if fresh, could definitely go on less time if using canned).  I skip the potatoes because I am not a person who enjoys them in stew, and always serve with baguettes!

What would be good to use instead of onion soup powder?

Just sub in 1 ½ cups broth of any sort instead. Lots of folks are allergic to onions, including my brother’s fiancee, and for her I just left out potatoes (she has a few food allergies, potatoes and tomatoes and onions are some, and she has celiac disease) So I omitted the onions and potatoes, made my own beef bone broth to make sure there wasn’t anything in there that would be bad for her, used cornstarch as a thickener instead of flour, and added parsnips and rutabegas and some sweet potatoes instead. It was excellent.

Trying this asap.