I can tell that spring needs to get here SOON! I’ve been searching magazines for new, tasty, healthy recipes to try, and I decided to make one from the most recent issue of “Real Simple.”
The ingredients are: sweet potatoes, beef chuck roast, whole peeled tomatoes, apricots, chickpeas, red onion, spinach, almonds, kosher salt, cayenne pepper, cumin, cinnamon, and ginger. Everything but the spinach, almonds and chick peas are cooked in a crock pot all day, and then those items are added at the last moment. What this amounts to is a Middle Eastern beef stew. It is served over couscous, and I chose to make a pan of cornbread to offer as a side dish.
Unfortunately, even though I’ve been married to him for eighteen years, I forgot that Dear Husband is a traditionalist. He was hoping for something more like plain old beef stew. He gave it a shot, ate the beef and sweet potatoes, and then got up to dump the rest off his plate.
(Sigh.)
Scratch that recipe from the books. For those of you who are more adventurous, I thought this was pretty tasty, but I’d cut back a little on the cayenne.