Different cuts of beef in beaf stew.
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Comments (10)The trick is to let your flavoring vegetables cook down with the meat from the beginning, and to put your "eating" vegetables, the ones that you want to have large pieces of which retain their identity, into the stew to cook for their appropriate times. That way they take on the flavor of the stew, and add some of their own to the stew, and are correctly cooked to serve. My very favorite carrots are the ones cooked in beef or lamb stew. :) This does require enough experience to know how long the meat takes, how long the vegetables each take, and how much added time you'll need because of the additions. The reason restaurants cook the vegetables separately and add them at the end isn't because it's better--it isn't!--but because it works best for restaurant management where you have different people eating at different times and requesting the stew on demand (service within 20 minutes). That's the only way to keep the veg from going mushy over three hours of dinner service. The veg are par cooked. The stew is cooked and held at keep warm temperature. A portion of each is added to a pan over high heat and brought to temperature and finished. Made in the pot and served family style is superior but only the occasional auberge or outsider place is set up to do it that way for serving the public....See MoreWhat is the difference between soup and stew?
Comments (35)Renee, I think Rachel Ray is too "cute" for my taste and I can't watch her for long, but Ashley and Amanda both like her, maybe it's the age thing? Anyway, I could listen to her more comfortably if she'd stop with the little abbreviations and nick names and cook something. And how in the world is "sammie" shorter than sandwich, they both have two syllables, geez... Now, please note that I said the girls like to watch her show. They've never cooked a single one of her recipes, they both say she has too many ingredients to ever make anything in half an hour. As for Soup v Stew, here's what "LaRousse Gastronomique, The world's Greatest Culinary Encyclopedia" has to say. Yup, I have it right here, the boss bought it for me for Christmas! Soup: A liquid savory food served at the beginning of a meal or as a light meal in itself. There are many soups which make a heavy meal, including Italian minestrone and chunky seafood chowder. Originally in France the soupe was the piece of bread on which was poured the contents of the cooking pot (potage). Soupe and Potage are now often synonymous.... Stew: The term stewing means long slow cooking in liquid. This may be done on the stovetop or in the oven. In either case the heat should be low enough to prevent the liquid from doing more than barely simmering. Ingredients are covered with liquid and a generous portion of flavouring ingredients, such as root vegetables. Stews should be always be rich, an intensity resulting from the mingling of flavors, extraction of juices and breaking down of connective tissue and gelatinous substances. The extended cooking time usually results in significant evaporation... In other words, I don't know. (grin) Annie...See MoreBeef Stew Questions
Comments (11)I love stew. I think there are a few essential things to do,then the rest is up to you and what you like - like leaving out parsnips if you don't like them! 1) make sure you trim the meat well. I hate finding nasty bits of fat or gristle on the meat. 2)toss the meat in a little flour and brown well in some oil, then soften the onion. Do you like garlic? If so, add that now to the onion. 3) do you like wine in your stew? You can add wine, water or stock. 4) decide on which herbs you like. Bay, thyme, parsley...... 5) you can continue to add veggies at stage 2 like celery or carrots. 6) you can fry off som bacon chunks and mushrooms and add them to the stew half an hour before the end of cooking. Have fun inventing your "stew style"!...See MoreBeef Stew in the Crockpot
Comments (11)Chuck is usually the less expensive cut! You need something with a certain amount of toughness/connective tissue to really stew it--something that will hold up--but otherwise anything works. Skirt steak used to be dead cheap, but now that the world has discovered fajitas, and that the skirt is really tasty compared to most cuts of domestic beef, it costs a ton. Brisket has become beloved of the barbecue crowd, so it's no longer cheap. Well marbled meat makes poor stew because once the fat is rendered out the good of the meat goes too. I've made stew from lean sirloin by cooking the veg mostly separately, browning the meat, and combining just for the meat to get done. But that depends on a blowout price on the sirloin, or a plan for other use dying on the vine. Because I trust the butchers where I shop, I don't mind buying "stew meat" which is a melange. It's nice pieces of meat trimmed off as they're cutting. They cook at different rates and have different flavors. The latter can make the stew more interesting, and the former doesn't matter if you're giving the meat plenty of time in the pot. I've heard that some butchers/companies throw "bad" meat together and call it stew. I don't know what that means. I don't mind paying less for odds and ends, and having to trim it up a bit....See More- 8 years ago
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