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 Post subject: Awesome beef stew recipe (uses Oatmeal stout)
PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:18 am 
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Adapted from something I found on the web...

Ingredients
* 2 lbs stew meat
* 1 large onion (pref. yellow) (diced, but not too tiny)
* 1 to 1 1/2 cups chopped carrots
* 1 to 1 1/2 cups sliced fresh mushrooms (may substitute 1 large potato)
* some flour (white or whole wheat)
* 4 strips of bacon
* 1 bottle (12 or 16 oz) of Oatmeal Stout (I use Samuel Smiths)
* 1 packet of McCormick's Beef Stew Seasoning
* 1 bay leaf (optional)
* Crockpot

1) Cook bacon in a large skillet.
2) While bacon cooks, toss the stew meat in some flour to coat lightly (this is not "breading" just a coat of flour).
3) Remove cooked bacon from pan, do NOT drain grease.
4) Brown stew meat in bacon grease, it is not necessary or desirable to fully cook the meat.
5) While meat cooks, chop carrots, dice onion, slice mushrooms, and chop the cooked bacon.
6) Add all vegetables to the crock pot, add the meat too.
7) Pour a room temperature Oatmeal Stout into the crock pot. Add entire packet of McCormicks Seasoning mix and 1 bay leaf.
8 ) Add water until ingredients are barely coated, ideally you want some of them sticking out of the water. The veggies will release their own water, so don't add too much. I usually add about 2 beer bottles full (24 oz). You can experiment with the beer/water ratio if you want.
9) Stir
10) Cook on high in your crockpot for 3-4 hours until meat is "flaky". Don't open lid during cooking.
11) Add salt and pepper to taste (I've never had to add any, the bacon takes care of the salt). Find and Remove the bay leaf.
12) Eat!!!

This also works great with other beers too, but nothing too hoppy. I have also used ambers and different stouts.

Hint on the bacon, my wife won't eat it, so buying a whole pound is a waste. I get excellent peppered bacon from the deli counter and I just ask for "4 strips". Its very thick and very tasty.


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Hint on the bacon, my wife won't eat it, so buying a whole pound is a waste. I get excellent peppered bacon from the deli counter and I just ask for "4 strips". Its very thick and very tasty.

You can eat bacon yourself... Buy the pound, cook it and eat it. Do not make me kick your ass.
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