So, this "end of days" kind of weather requires some warm, comforting, delicious dinner. So, tonight, we use up some leftover, holiday sirloin and add some soup basics to create a delicious, hearty, comforting stew!
Now, soup and stew seems like a Sunday afternoon kind of meal that should take a long time. But, the truth is... it's Monday... busy hectic... bad weather, late getting home, starving, kinda Monday. But, if you have leftover meat (in our case, some big ol' beef sirloin), then I promise you, the simplest hearty of soups will warm you up in no time!!
And that's what we did tonight, in 20 minutes! No joke! First I started by chopping 2 onions, 4 stalks of celery, 4 peeled carrots, and dropped them into a big pot in a little olive oil and salt and fresh ground pepper!
Give them a few minutes to soften. While that happened, I peeled those potatoes and diced them into small half inch pieces, and chopped and peeled 4 cloves of garlic.
When the veggies are soft, add the garlic, potatoes, 6-8 cups of beef stock, and chopped mushrooms. I bought a pre-chopped pack of button mushrooms, nothing fancy, but totally perfect for this soup!
Combine all the veg with the stock and get ready to add your beef! I used leftover sirloin from Mimi's fabulous 80th birthday party (Cheers-Mimi!!).
I chopped the beef and discarded the fat and gristle and added it to the soup with one half cup of barley and 4 tiny bay leaves (1 or 2 would be fine, but mine were teensy-weensy). Let the soup simmer for 45 minutes to an hour or so.
After an hour, I added a big ol' handful of chopped fresh parsley and tasted for seasoning... and it was DELICIOUS! Warm, hearty, meaty, barley-ish, and full of veggies!!! Oh, HECK YEAH... Not exactly beef stew (easier)... but a super delicious way to recreate leftover sirloin into one comfort meal full of veggies, nutrition and LOVE!!!
So, this "end of days" kind of weather requires some warm, comforting, delicious dinner. So, tonight, we use up some leftover, holiday sirloin and add some soup basics to create a delicious, hearty, comforting stew!
Now, soup and stew seems like a Sunday afternoon kind of meal that should take a long time. But, the truth is... it's Monday... busy hectic... bad weather, late getting home, starving, kinda Monday. But, if you have leftover meat (in our case, some big ol' beef sirloin), then I promise you, the simplest hearty of soups will warm you up in no time!!
And that's what we did tonight, in 20 minutes! No joke! First I started by chopping 2 onions, 4 stalks of celery, 4 peeled carrots, and dropped them into a big pot in a little olive oil and salt and fresh ground pepper!
Give them a few minutes to soften. While that happened, I peeled those potatoes and diced them into small half inch pieces, and chopped and peeled 4 cloves of garlic.
When the veggies are soft, add the garlic, potatoes, 6-8 cups of beef stock, and chopped mushrooms. I bought a pre-chopped pack of button mushrooms, nothing fancy, but totally perfect for this soup!
Combine all the veg with the stock and get ready to add your beef! I used leftover sirloin from Mimi's fabulous 80th birthday party (Cheers-Mimi!!).
I chopped the beef and discarded the fat and gristle and added it to the soup with one half cup of barley and 4 tiny bay leaves (1 or 2 would be fine, but mine were teensy-weensy). Let the soup simmer for 45 minutes to an hour or so.
After an hour, I added a big ol' handful of chopped fresh parsley and tasted for seasoning... and it was DELICIOUS! Warm, hearty, meaty, barley-ish, and full of veggies!!! Oh, HECK YEAH... Not exactly beef stew (easier)... but a super delicious way to recreate leftover sirloin into one comfort meal full of veggies, nutrition and LOVE!!!
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