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.
Arrrgh!!!
It's just my state of mind!
I’m laughing because I think you are lucky that your Dear Husband likes “plain old beef stew”. Hunky Husband will eat beef stew once or twice per year. He grew up on pork, rather than beef; but, he doesn’t care for pork stew (which I make, New Mexico style, with chili verde), either. And god forbid that I should ask HH to touch a cooked whole tomato (ketchup is OK!)
Pass the cornbread, please. I wouldn’t say that I dislike couscous, but corn meal mush (polenta) would be more to my liking–or just put the stew over the cornbread.
At any rate, I cannot imagine that I would have turned my nose up at your adventuresome dish. You have the magic touch that makes anything/everything taste good!
Actually, DH eats an AMAZING variety of food. I shouldn’t complain about his not caring for this one meal. He likes both beef and pork, and probably would like your pork stew. He’s also very good about veggies.
I love cornbread. I make it when I serve chili, and with ham and bean soup.
I suspect that you would have enjoyed the Middle Eastern beef stew. I liked it! 😉
I, too, like cornbread with chili or bean soup; but, again, HH doesn’t want it. Polenta, he will eat if I fix kidney stew to serve over it!
I KNOW that I would have enjoyed your ME beef stew!