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Beef Main dish Vegetables
12th November 2013

Mirepoix beef stew

Mirepoix is a city in the southwest of France, in the Ariège region. It is also the name given to a certain style of finely chopping vegetables and herbs to go into a soup or stew. I have an old aunt living near that city and when I visit her I usually cook a dish she can keep in her freezer and use for several […]

Beef Main dish
8th April 2013

Provençal beef stew

As Spring is late in coming, I have made some dishes for colder times such as this beef stew, which is a variation on the well-known, but not always well-made, bœuf Bourguignon. These hearty dishes take a lot of time to cook and are often rather fat. However, you control the fat content yourself by using leaner pieces of beef or by cutting away the […]