Cris here.
I recently joined Substack after Aunt Lou talked me into it.
When I started thinking about the first recipe I wanted to share there, I immediately thought about this amazing beef stew we have been enjoying for over a decade.
And then I literally laughed out loud.
This beef stew has a story…
A story that is a wee bit ironic given my recent beef with a.i. recipes and how the internet is absolutely determined on spreading around fake recipes THEY (our soon to be robot a.i. overlords) have never made… much less tried.
We jokingly call this The Best Beef Stew I Never Made because when I first posted it online I hadn’t, but I totally thought I had!
As the story goes, I had been working a LOT of long hours away from home while trying to keep up with regularly posting kitchen tested recipes on my growing cooking blog and here on my personal blog.
That meant Mikey was helping me out with some of the cooking testing so we could taste test at dinner at a decent hour.
I would do the shopping, and write out the notes of what I wanted him to test and then we would review everything over dinner during that couple of weeks.
I came home after an especially long day and settled in for a nice bowl of this stew I had been planning for weeks.
And it was GOOD.
So good that I started commenting about how it must be the best stew I had made to date…
”This is incredible! I do believe this is the BEST Beef Stew I have ever made!”
My husband then looks at me like I had done lost my mind.
“No, I’m serious honey, this stew is fantastic,” I say, trying to convince him. I mean what stew is he eating? This stuff was killer good!
“You think it is the best stew YOU have ever made, huh?”
“Yes. It is incredible… Did you taste those carrots?!”
He thought I was pulling his leg. I still had no idea why he was acting so put out. I mean I had just fed him the best beef stew of his life.
“Honey, I made the stew.”
I laughed out loud. I totally had thought I made it and I was making sure everyone else thought I had too!
Now unlike our A.I. overlords and the platforms that keep pushing them on us, I HAVE tried this recipe many times and definitely give it the highest recommendation and so do our readers:
Caroline J. says: “Great recipe! I did all my chopping the night before and then dumped everything in the crockpot before I left for work. 10 hours later and it’s delicious! Perfect salty to meaty flavor ratio”
Kim says: “This is so good! I’m not a fan of stew, but this recipe is a keeper!”
Sue says: “So easy and so good. Couldn’t find the barley and used 1/3 cup brown rice instead”
Mel B. says: “SO YUMMY”
Ingredients Needed for The Best Beef Stew I Never Made:
- Beef Stew Meat
- Potatoes
- Celery
- Carrots
- Onions
- Tomato Juice
- Barley
- Sugar
- Salt and Pepper
- Dried Basil
- Pepper
Printable Instructions can be found here: The Best Beef Stew I Never Made Instructions
Now, while I can vouch for this recipe and cannot for so many of the fake versions that are online these days. I can laugh at some of the photos that A.I. tries to pass off as “real”.
After years of taking photos of home cooked meals, I know that not all recipes make for magazine worthy photos, however, when you really look at these A.I. photos, they are quite…. um… entertaining.
From the questionable crockery to the mind bending spoons and the Pixar-like beef, unidentified green blobs and bar of soap(?) shaped carrots… here is a collection of A.I. Beef Stew for “entertainment purposes only”.
Do you spot any oddities I missed?
I mean if A.I. is going to be forced on us, we just as well have a little fun, eh?
-C
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