
JeffW sends along some garlic bread. ETA: JeffreyW posted recipe in the comments
Tonight’s menu is pretty simple. Use the soup recipe as a starter and add whatever inspires you to supe it up (hee-hee, see what I did there?). I like the ease of frozen vegetables, but use fresh if you’re so inclined. Squash is a nice addition, put it in when you are simmering the meat, it will need the extra cooking time. Turnips, parsnips, maybe some barley. Go crazy.
On the board tonight:
- Beef Vegetable Soup
- Hearty Bread
- Pumpkin Apple Butter
Beef Vegetable Soup
- 1 lb chuck or stew meat, small cubes
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 small onion, quartered
- 8 cups water
- 1 tsp crushed rosemary
- 1 tsp crushed basil
- ½ tsp dry dill
- ½ tsp crushed garlic
- ½ tsp fennel seed (opt)
- 1 bay leaf (remove before serving)
- 2 large potatoes, cut into 8-10 pieces
- 16 oz frozen mixed vegetables
large saucepan
Heat oil in saucepan, add onions and sauté, add beef and brown. Add water, spices and potatoes. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and cook 20-25 minutes, until beef is tender. Add vegetables and simmer 10 minutes.
Pumpkin Apple Butter
- 15 oz can pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling)
- 8 oz apple sauce
- ½ cup apple cider
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¼ tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp ground cloves
saucepan
Add all ingredients to saucepan, bring to a boil, reduce to simmer, cover and let cook down for 1 to 1 ½ hours, stirring occasionally. Store in the refrigerator. Serve on bread.
Shopping List:
- Hearty Bread
- 1 lb chuck or stew meat
- 1 small onion
- 2 large potatoes
- 16 oz frozen mixed vegetables
- 15 oz can pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling)
- 8 oz applesauce
- ½ cup apple cider
- ½ cup brown sugar
Also: ground ginger, ground cinnamon, ground cloves, bay leaf, rosemary, basil, dry dill, olive oil crushed garlic, fennel seed
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Oh! I’ve been so busy with networking issues and upgrades from Vista to Win 7 I forgot the bread recipe!
Here are a couple of shots of the loaf and some slices.
The recipe for the garlic bread linked to above worked pretty well. I made a change in that I added about a head and a half of peeled garlic cloves to the dough. I let the machine go through both knead cycles and then gently formed the loaf and let it rise on the baking tray. Would have been sweet to have had the perforated “french loaf” baking tray in for that batch of dough.
There wasn’t any doubt that the loaf was a garlic loaf! LOL
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This sounds delish!
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Thank you kuby2u! I love the pumpkin butter.
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