Stew time
Jon gets hankerings for certain types of food. He’ll watch some cooking show or flip through a recipe book and want to try it. Yesterday he decided he wanted to make beef stew.รย He looked up a recipe in his “Where’s Mom now that I need her Cookbook.” and put the ingredients down so he could get them while at the store.รย Today he decided we should make it. I hadn’t separated the meat yet, and that way we won’t have to thaw it for the first batch, or keep it in the fridge. Se he made his stew. It took about an hour longer to cook and an extra cup and a quarter water. I made biscuits and Jon and I enjoyed his stew. I think it turned out quite well except I like it a little more beefy. This recipe only called for water, no beef broth.
This is what Lilah said about it:
“Stew makes me bad and then I’ll die.”
I think she was just trying to get out of eating dinner. The kicker is she hadn’t even tried the stew yet and came to the conclusion it would make her die. I don’t know what that says about Jon’s cooking.
Really Lilah isn’t a soup or stew fan. She eats tomato soup because we add cheese, and sometimes she eats vegetable, but only if it has the noodles that are letters. Our thing is we give her about half of what we expect and know her to eat…then she can have more or be done. Also of we have a desert she can then have desert if she eats at least one serving of food. This can be bad because she might normally eat more, but because a tasty treat awaits her she only eats the first serving. If it’s something I know she likes, I usually don’t lessen it, and I think I’ll be giving her a little more now that we have a bag full of candy in the cupboard from the trunk or treat.