[Sca-cooks] Winter (?) comfort food...

[marilyn traber 011221]

> While I agree this is comfort food....we never eat it in the winter! 
>  It's the meal made with the first green beans from the garden..and 
> my father used to dig up the tiny red potatoes to go with it!  
>  Hmmm...never thought to use some of those beans in the freezer to 
> make this in winter!  What I do for winter is to brown beef short 
> ribs and then put them to stew in water and a dark red wine for a 
> long while, then I add root veggies (mostly carrots and 
> parsnips..the family isn't keen on turnips in this) and whatever 
> herbs strike my fancy.  A loaf of "homemade" bread from the bread 
> machine and we are good to go!
> 
> Etain

Well, green beans are pretty much my favorite vegetable, so any way I can 
have an excuse to eat them is usually a Good Thing ;-)

Although Rob tried to do me in on them like he did with broccoli a while back 
(if you remember, he served steamed broccoli, which used to be one of my 
favorites, as the vegetable for two weeks straight. Now, I can barely eat 
it.) Anyway, while R&M were gone for T'day, I figured I'd make up a couple 
dishes that they don't like and pig out. One was Jannsen's Temptation (they 
both hate anchovies), and the other was the much maligned green bean/mushroom 
soup/ ff onion casserole (M's deathly allergic to mushrooms, so we don't even 
have them in the house, usually- I go to events, and scarf all the 'shrooms 
the cooks will let me have). Because of her allergy, I had to get them eaten 
before she got back- I even kept the casserole outside in the covered bbq 
grill to keep cold, so she wouldn't risk running into them in the fridge- but 
that meant I had to eat 2 lbs of green beans (size of the recipe for 1 can of 
mushroom soup) in 3 days, which is rather a lot, even if you like them as 
much as I do. Rob came home and cooked us up some steaks for dinner- with 
green beans on the side...

Was a bit much, but it's taken us long enough to make him realize that I 
really like them, that I ate them all, and didn't say a word- bless his 
heart...

Phlip