The simple things in life: 'Red Stew' recipe! :-)

[Padraig18]

For the second time this week, we're actually goping to sit down and have a meal at home, and Tony asked me to make 'red stew'. It's an old family recipe, and easily the best stew I've ever eaten (OK, so I'm biased! :P ):

1/2 lb. salt pork, diced
3 lb. arm roast
1 qt. tomato juice
6 medium potatoes, cubed
6 carrots, diced
1 cup peas
1 cup corn
1 small head cabbage, cut in 6ths or 8ths
2 medium tomatoes, peeled and chunked
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
3 whole cloves
1 bay leaf
Salt and pepper, to taste

In a heavy skillet or Dutch oven, brown and render the salt pork over medium heat, and remove from skillet and set aside. Salt and pepper the roast, dredge in flour and brown in pork fat. Remove and cube. Return pork and beef to skillet and add remaining ingredients, except the cabbage. Add enough water to cover by one inch. Simmer on low heat 1 1/2 - 2 hours. 20-30 minutes before serving, place cabbage on top and let it cook until it's 'fork tender'.

Serve with any hearty bread or roll (we prefer soda bread or corn bread).

People WILL ask for 'seconds', trust me.

:)

[Burma Jones]

1. This looks very similar to Burgoo

An old Kentucky Favorite, No Cabbage, Garlic and Cloves though..............

[Padraig18]

2. Never had Burgoo...

What's in it?

:hi:

[Burma Jones]

8. Well, at home, it was usually...........

Chuck Roast
Fat Back (salt pork)
Onions
Celery
Tomatoes
Corn
Lima Beans
Peas
Potatoes
Carrots
Bay Leaf
Rosemary
Sage


But, to be authentic, you need squirrel. Also, a lot of folks add chicken.

Burgoo was something they cooked at hog butchering time and they had big parties.

A very close relative of Burgoo is Brunswick Stew.

[Hand]

6. I've heard there were whole community picnics

organized around the creation and consumption of burgoo--a bit like a chili cook-off, I suppose. I understand that there were beef, pork, and chicken burgoos. YUM!

:toast:

[murphymom]

3. Sounds delicious

but what's an arm roast? I haven't heard that term in my neck of the woods. Is that like a beef chuck roast?

I do a beef stew with no peas, corn or cabbage, but I put in bell pepper, celery, canned diced tomatoes, turnips, parsnips and boiling onions plus a little red wine. Good cool weather grub.

[Padraig18]

4. Arm roast is like a chuck roast.

But any good, lean cut would do, I think. It gets tender with the slow cooking, regardless.

:)

[murphymom]

5. Thanks!

I'll have to try your recipe sometime. I love anything with cabbage.

[Padraig18]

7. It really rocks

Happy eating!

:)