Sunday, January 2, 2011

Moments - Daube de Boeuf

I'm someone who likes to title events in life to find special meanings in occasions, identify hidden signs, and meet weird people. Cause some coincidence in life are so beautiful they deserve collecting.

Collectors, I never understood. Why would u need to collect all those postcards, dolls, gravel ... But I guess things don't have to have an ultimate goal, or make sense to a crowd for them to exist.

They just have to mean to you. They’ll make your persona. After all that's what's the world is feeding on lately your personal " likes, posts, pictures..." the more you're different the more you fit in, the more you're liked, loved, appreciated, envied, hated, despised, admired ... Generating reactions.

Nothing feels like home more then home food and what’s more homey than slow cooked stews.They warm your house and welcome you with their comforting aroma and satisfying taste.

I've wrote my post but I'll post it later I'll keep it for a while for the flavors to mix and generate more ideas just like my prepared stew, they just get better with time...



Daube de Boeuf

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stew

Serves 5 people

Ingredients

1 tablespoon of flour

1 kg lean stewing beef, cut in 1-inch cubes

4 tablespoons of olive oil

100g of smoked bacon

1 big minced onion

4 cloves of garlic

Zest of 1 orange

200g carrots (I used frozen ones)

Teaspoon dried leaf thyme, crushed

300 ml of red wine

300 ml of beef broth

100g of pitted black olives

4 tablespoons of tomato paste

Salt and pepper

cocotte

Directions

Mix the flour with salt and pepper

Heat the olive oil. Add beef; brown well on all sides. Set aside

Add the bacon and the onion fry them for 5 minutes.

Return the beef back to the pot

Add the garlic, carrots, thyme, wine and the beef broth.

Bring to boil cover and bake them in a an oven for 1h 15 at 160degrees

mix in a blender the olives with tomato puree, add the mix to your pot and baked for 15 minutes more. Serve it with mashed potatoes and enjoy.

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