Beef Stew

Stews are an easy dish to make, mainly because it's a one pot kind of a dinner.  They are perfect for cold days, healthy and hardy.  It's like a soup, but more filling, and who doesn't love soup.  They are convenient too, because you can pretty much put anything into a stew.  When you're in a pinch, you don't even need much meat, or any meat for that matter, veggie stews are delicious, and you can include various beans to make them more filling and increase the protein and extra fibre.

I used grass fed, AAA, ribeye steak, cubed it and seared it in spices.  I love marjoram with red meat.

In a pot, I fried up some fresh garlic in butter.  I found an Ontario grown heirloom variety, it's amazing how much flavour there is in such small cloves/ heads compared to the majority of standard supermarket garlic from China, and sometimes from the USA.  When I was a kid, and my grandma grew a lot of stuff, her garlic was also small.

I added diced carrots, potatoes, dry polish sausage (Krakowska), some peas, spices (bay leaf, marjoram, rosemary, thyme, s&p), and a bit of water, enough to barely cover the stuff.

Once the beef cubes were about half way cooked through, I added them to the pot.

Then as it was cooking, I made a roux (flour and butter) to thicken up the water, and make it into a sauce, otherwise it would be a chunky soup.

It was delicious, nutritious, and filling.  Now I'm waiting for my brownies to cool down  :)