Delicious Beef Stew Per Multiple Requests

Nor'easter Beef Stew



2 pounds of Beef Stew meat

> Salt and Pepper to taste

1 tablespoon olive oil

3 large onions, coarsely chopped

2 bay leaves

1 teaspoon thyme

2 ounces of tomato paste

2 cups baby carrots, cut into halves

2 teaspoons minced garlic

6 red potatoes, peeled, cut into quarters

2 (15-ounce) cans low-sodium beef broth or consomme

1 cup water

2 tablespoons Chinese black vinegar or Worcesterhire sauce

> parsley for garnish



Season the beef with salt and pepper. Heat the olive oil in a 6-quart pot over the medium heat. Add the beef. Saute for 10 minutes or until browned on all sides. Remove from the pot with a slotted spoon. Add the onions, bay leaves and thyme to the beef drippings. Saute for about 10 minutes or until the onions are tender. Add the tomato paste, carrots, and garlic. Saute over medium-high heat for 3 minutes. Stir in the beef, potatoes, broth, water, and vinegar. Bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low. Simmer, covered for 1 1/2 hours or until the beef is fork-tender, stirring occasionally. Remove and discard the bay leaves. Garnish with parsley.

If you like a thicker gravy then use about 2 TBS of cornstarch with water to thicken it.

It really is sooooooooooo good. Bon Appetite.



Serves 4 to 6

Last time I made it, I doubled it and it made almost too much. We've now had it for dinner 3 nights in a row and I'm sick of it by now.

Awaiting Nor'Easter

Hello :)

Well, Kyle asked if we could make one of my favorite recipes "Nor'Easter Beef Stew a few days ago not knowing that we'd be dealing with a real Nor'Easter. Evidently we are supposed to get close to a foot of snow tomorrow. I've already realized that there is no way I'm going to work tomorrow unless their prediction is a total wash.

We've had yet another low-key weekend. This past Friday was my first Friday off with my new schedule. I headed to my mom's house around 11:00 & she helped me with some things I needed to do for the adoption process. I had to get copies of my birth certificate and our marriage license. Instead of me going into the various town halls my mom did. It made things go a lot quicker. As most of you know, things take longer with me because I have to transfer and get in and out of the van, etc. Anyway, my mom was so helpful. I think she is just so excited to be a grandmother again that she'll do anything to speed the process along. After that we got lunch at our favorite salad place and split an amazing salad. It is huge that is why we split it. Then we decided we'd rent a movie. We rented Two Weeks with Sally Field. I think it was initially a TV movie, maybe HBO. It was good but extremely DEPRESSING. We were sobbing throughout the whole movie pretty much. Sally Field's character has terminal cancer and her four children come to spend the last two weeks of her life with her. It was soooooo sad. In retrospect it wasn't the best choice because my mom is 70 and I know she is at the point where she is thinking a lot about her own mortality. Then I started to stress about how I'm ever going to live without my mom. I just love her so much.

We have the Social Worker coming on Thursday to meet with both Kyle and I individually so this weekend we've been getting our condo cleaned and organized. On Saturday morning we had to take Rosie to the vet to get her Rabies vaccine. She is such a good girl.

We still haven't decided on which country we will adopt from. I'm still researching countries and it and seems like the rules change every other day.