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Beef Bourguignon

This is a shipping service I wrote 4 years ago, inwards January, simply subsequently nosotros were married, as well as simply earlier nosotros moved to Mass as well as got important amongst Emma.  There are non many photos or posts that I hold back dorsum on from 4 years agone as well as love.  Usually I am also critical of my developing (sub-par?) photography skills as well as undeveloped styling skills.  Not this post.  1) The recipe is goooooood.  2) It brings me correct dorsum to that minute inwards our lives, inwards our outset house.

I don't wishing for a 2nd that I was dorsum at that pre-family phase of our life, but I practice immature adult woman existence settled inwards our dwelling delineate of piece of occupation solid - a dwelling delineate of piece of occupation solid that nosotros worked therefore difficult on, were therefore proud of as well as comfortable in.  There is something nearly your outset dwelling delineate of piece of occupation solid that volition never live on similar another.  We did all of our delineate of piece of occupation solid projects ourselves - each projection was simply a weekend, a duet hundred dollars as well as a trip to Home Depot away.  While I experience therefore fortunate that we're instantly inwards a identify that nosotros tin truly pick out a professional person practice the operate for us, sometimes I immature adult woman those DIY transformations nosotros were able to practice ourselves inwards a weekend.  We volition definitely pick out or therefore piddling projects to practice ourselves, but for the most business office all of the large materials nosotros live on done for us.  Maybe our contractor volition allow me assistance amongst the tiling : )


If y'all want to bring together me inwards my piddling trip downward retention lane, run across photos the from our outset house, here.

From Jan 2011:

Beef Bourguignon sounds complicated as well as intimidating.  Or at to the lowest degree I idea it did.  Until I made it, as well as discovered it was simply beef stew amongst herbs as well as cherry-red wine.  What makes it fifty-fifty meliorate is that it is done all inwards ane pot, as well as it makes the delineate of piece of occupation solid odour amazing.

French Beef Stew 
(Beef Bourguignon)

2-3 pound Chuck Roast
iii tablespoon of olive oil
two teaspoons of body of body of water salt
two teaspoons of pepper
4 cups of chicken stock
two cups of cherry-red wine
five cloves of garlic
1 tablespoon of rosemary (dried or fresh)
1 bunch of fresh thyme
4 bay leaves
1 loving cup of carrots, 1-inch dice
1 loving cup of potatoes, 1-inch dice
1 loving cup of mushrooms, 1-inch dice
two tablespoons of butter
two tablespoons of flour
1 loaf of crusty french breadstuff (baguette)
1 clove of garlic (raw)


Coat the Chuck Roast amongst olive oil, tabular array salt & pepper.  Heat a large dutch oven on the stove overstep for two minutes, therefore sear the roast for 2-3 minutes on each side.  Add stock, wine, garlic, as well as herbs.  Cover as well as position it inwards the oven for 4 hours at 225 degrees.

After 4 hours of cooking, add together the carrots, potatoes as well as mushrooms.  Cook for for 30-45 minutes longer.  Remove from the oven.  Place the pot on the stove, as well as take the roast from the stock as well as vino sauce, placing it on a platter.  Cover as well as allow it cool for 10 minutes.   Leave the sauce (with herbs as well as vegetables) inwards the pot on the stove.

Meanwhile, thicken the sauce (that remained inwards the pot) past times microwaving two tablespoons of butter inwards a pocket-size bowl.  Add two tablespoons of flour to the butter, stirring it until smooth.  Whisk it into the sauce until smooth.  Cook on medium oestrus until the sauce begins to bubble as well as thicken.  You may add together or therefore other batch of the thickening mixture, if y'all desire.

Remove the fatty as well as bones from the Chuck Roast.  Shred the beef into large pieces dorsum into the sauce.

To serve, piece the baguette, therefore toast it a 400 bird oven for five minutes.  Rub the piece of raw garlic onto each piece.  Place ane piece into the bottom of each soup bowl as well as ladle inwards the beef stew.

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