It’s cold here in Iowa and it’s the weekend, so that calls for a day in the warm kitchen, leisurely thumbing through cookbooks while a pot of beef stew simmers away. This is the most perfect version in my opinion; a classic French stew with bacon, mushrooms, red wine, hearty beef chuck, and delicious toasty bread for sopping it all up. I make this a couple times a year; rain, snow or shine, summer, fall or winter…it makes no matter. It’s good all year round!
Aside from your initial time investment to prep and start the stew, this is an easy, relatively hands-off dinner. Make a veggie side or, if you want to go all in, some rich and buttery mashed potatoes. Invite some friends over while it’s cooking to enjoy some wine and allow them to bask in your Julia Child-ness. Or, more accurately here, your Ina-ness.
(Let’s all just admit she’s the queen. P.S. this is her recipe.)
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