Post your favorite winter time stew or soup (Bonus points if it's easy)

   / Post your favorite winter time stew or soup (Bonus points if it's easy) #51  
I have a good goulash recipe I adapted for Instant Pot. I’ll look it up.
 
   / Post your favorite winter time stew or soup (Bonus points if it's easy) #52  
I have a good goulash recipe I adapted for Instant Pot. I’ll look it up.
Please do . . . my sainted mother made a heck of a goulash/slumgullion . . . sorry to say it past along with her.
 
   / Post your favorite winter time stew or soup (Bonus points if it's easy) #53  
This one’s real quick, easy and tasty. Sweat some diced onions, bell peppers, minced garlic and carrots in olive oil. Add 1 pound ground ground beef and brown. Then fill pot halfway with beef broth. Add a couple cans of diced tomatoes. Simmer about 30 minutes, then add a bag of frozen mixed vegetables and heat through. Season with salt and pepper, and add thyme to taste. Add a small amount of sugar to balance the tomatoes acidity. You can customize this many ways: add potatoes, etc… It’s easy and filling
 
   / Post your favorite winter time stew or soup (Bonus points if it's easy) #54  
This has to be a work of passion. Are you a farmer? The book must have a theme. Down home farm cooking is what I am thinking of. The kind of nutrition-packed and delicious home cooking that keeps the hardworking American small farmer going. Every chapter featuring the favorites of each state in the union. What did our farmers/ranchers ate back in those days?

By the way, I was wrong about the cooking time for your "Green Chile Stew". I thought you used ground pork. If it is in cut pieces, then 2 hours sounds right.
Last batch I made, seemed the pork was a bit tough, so I cooked it longer. I don't think it would be the same with ground pork.

I am not a farmer, but I grew up in rural Oklahoma and Missouri. I think "Rural" is a more descriptive and more inclusive term to use. Both of my grandparents were farmers; and I did a lot of farm work growing up. My Dad ran sand dredge, but we lived in the country with farmers and other country folks; most of my friends were farm kids.

What did they eat back in those days? You should be aware, that things were a bit different in those days. I never saw a charcoal grill or ate a charcoaled steak until I graduated high school. Mom always pan fried our steaks, until she...HOORAY...got an electric stove with a broiler (she cooked on a kerosene stove; my Grandmother used a wood cook stove in those days).

To cook a turkey, it took all day for a hen (we never bought a tom); Mom would get up at 2:00 in the morning and put it on.
We cooked BBQ in the oven; ate lots of chicken and pork chops (meat, taters and gravy) and our meat diet was about 50% wild game...ducks, geese, quail, squirrel, rabbit and occasionally some deer...mostly fried.

What is your background?
 
   / Post your favorite winter time stew or soup (Bonus points if it's easy) #55  
Canned beans as in store bought? Or my wife's canned beans . . . :).
I'm betting either will work. As long as the beans and bacon are done. My wife made some pickled green beans one time (they were great, but a bit salty) that had to be washed and mostly cooked after they were taken out of the jar.
 
   / Post your favorite winter time stew or soup (Bonus points if it's easy) #56  
^^^^^ As I thought 2Lane . . . we were cut from the same cloth. (y)
 
   / Post your favorite winter time stew or soup (Bonus points if it's easy) #57  
I love this thread!

OK, my simple Instapot beef stew:

- 2 pound's stew beef, cubed
- 2 small or 1 large onion, chopped
- 3 or 4 garlic cloves, (I try to slice finely, but I have ham hands, so chopped oddly)
- Package of celery, chopped
- Package of carrots, chopped
- Package of fingerling potatoes
- bag of frozen peas
- quart of beef bone broth
- Single package of dry McCormicks beef gravy mix.
- A couple bay leaves
- Splash of red table wine.

I like to keep the skins on my potatoes and carrots and wash them real well.
Brown the onion (caramelize a bit) and beef in the Instapot while you chop everything else. I season the beef with a little salt and pepper before going in the pot.
Throw everything in the pot'
22 mins on pressure cook time.

Easy to make, tastes great, beef is tender. Can whip this up even on a hectic weeknight. The wife loves this stew.
 
   / Post your favorite winter time stew or soup (Bonus points if it's easy) #59  
This one’s real quick, easy and tasty. Sweat some diced onions, bell peppers, minced garlic and carrots in olive oil. Add 1 pound ground ground beef and brown. Then fill pot halfway with beef broth. Add a couple cans of diced tomatoes. Simmer about 30 minutes, then add a bag of frozen mixed vegetables and heat through. Season with salt and pepper, and add thyme to taste. Add a small amount of sugar to balance the tomatoes acidity. You can customize this many ways: add potatoes, etc… It’s easy and filling
Is this your own recipe? Sounds like a hearty and satisfying meal. Easy to put together for a farmer, without a wife, living on his own.
 
   / Post your favorite winter time stew or soup (Bonus points if it's easy) #60  
Is this your own recipe? Sounds like a hearty and satisfying meal. Easy to put together for a farmer, without a wife, living on his own.
My grandmother used to make it. This is my version of it from what I remember.
 
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