I wish you could all come and eat with me tonight

[darkemeralds]

Dear GOD this is delicious!

Tonight after work, with the cold and the bike-riding and my little incident earlier, I was in the mood for some comfort food.

So I made a beef Burgundy (well, more of a beef Bordeaux) from a recipe by one of those wonderful curvaceous women TV chefs--Nigella Lawson or the Barefoot Contessa or somebody, who clearly stole it from Julia Child: all cubes of beef and wine and bacon and mushrooms and carrots and onions and pepper and garlic, slow-cooked in a heavy pot in the oven. It just came out, and I am enjoying a bowlful of it now.

There's a loaf of ciabatta bread and some butter, and gosh, I wish I could share it with all of you--I've got a nice salad too, so the vegetarians could join us!

Thank you for my star cookies, sparky77, llaras, lambourngb and buffyaddict13. You've helped make the winter holiday season so bright!

Comments

[executrix.livejournal.com]

It sounds wonderful! But Julia Child got it from a million bonnes femmes, so I think the curvaceous chef can have a clear conscience.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Oh yes--it's a traditional recipe, for sure--but I was struck by how exactly the one I have saved to my phone (for easy grocery shopping) matches the one from Child's book.

It's an excellent example of how GREAT simple provincial cooking can be.

[str8ontilmornin.livejournal.com]

Delightful winter meal! Always had a crush on Nigella.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she's something, isn't she?

I was going to bring some of the stew to work with me, but I figured it would freeze solid on the way.

[elistaire.livejournal.com]

That recipe sounds fantastic. I wish I had some. *mmmmm*

[sffan.livejournal.com]

That sounds absolutely delicious! Could you share the recipe?

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely! Here's one of several that are more or less exactly what I made:

http://www.easy-french-food.com/beef-bourguignon-recipe.html

It's yummy!

[sffan.livejournal.com]

And it looks easy, too!

Any recommendations for wine? I know pretty much nothing about wine.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Oh, any cabernet or pinot noir would work. If you have a Trader Joe's near you, they've got fantastic selections of cheap reds. I can't see bunging much more than five or six dollars' worth of wine into a stew pot.

Did that recipe I linked you to include the cognac? If so, you can safely disregard it. I did. But you definitely need the wine. Let me know if you try it!

[sffan.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking it's going to be my Christmas dinner :D I may even go a little crazy and have it with mashed potatoes! Now I just have to figure out a substitute for the mushrooms seeing as I kinda hate them ;) No cognac in that recipe.

No TJs in Canada (yet!), but I live across the street from an LCBO (Canadian version of a liquor store) that has lots of wine at pretty much every price point to choose from.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

I leave out the pearl onions, myself, but I love mushrooms. You could go the other way around! Or add more carrots.

It would make a fantastic Christmas dinner! I was thinking of taking a pot of it to my work Christmas party, but then I was all "pearls before swine" and also I hate microwaving good food.

Also: I extended my batch last night by throwing in a little more wine, stock, and beurre manie, then potatoes cut in cubes. Who knows? I could add some more meat tomorrow and keep it going for days and days.

[vampirefan.livejournal.com]

omg yummy!!!

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

It was pretty darn good! And leftovers--even better.

[owzers.livejournal.com]

STOP TORTURING ME WITH FOOD PORN!!!!! *wacks transporter* Dammit Scotty! Why haven't you beamed me over there yet!!!

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

You, too, can have beef burgundy (http://www.easy-french-food.com/beef-bourguignon-recipe.html). It's fun to make.

[llaras.livejournal.com]

:-D