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Had some beef stew the other day when visiting with a friend. He gave me the recipe, but I didn’t write it down.

Tried recreating it the other day, pretty sure this isn’t accurate, but it tasted awesome (and just a tad more’ish, scoffed the lot with KrispyPig over a 2 day period :-/

Serves – x4 *really* hungry people (or x2 complete pigs for x2 days)

You will need :-

Method :-

1. Roughly chop the onions and fry them gently in the pan with the oil and a handful of rosemary and a handful of thyme
2. Chop the bacon into small pieces
3. When the onions are soft (but not mushy, about 5 mins should do it !) add the bacon to the pot
4. Cook for 5 more mins till bacon is cooked, then add the beef to the pot
5. Cook thoroughly adding salt and pepper to taste (about 10 mins)
6. While beef is cooking, chop the carrots and potatoes into chunks (quite thick chunks, we don’t want them going mushy !)
7. When beef is cooked, add potatoes, mushrooms and carrots to the pan
8. Add enough beef stock to cover the contents of the pan
9. Add the bottle of wine as well
10. Add x2 teaspoons of sugar

Boil for about 5 mins, then reduce down to simmer and cook until the veg starts to soften (but stop cooking before it turns to mush !). Takes approx. 2 – 3 hours for me.

Serve with chunks of rustic bread.